1 debhelper (9.20120514) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2012 11:36:06 -0400
7 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
10 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
11 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
12 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
13 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
14 to revert these changes.
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
18 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
20 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
22 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
23 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
27 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
33 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
35 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
39 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
41 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
42 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
43 package is broken by this change.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
47 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
51 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
52 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
56 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
57 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
58 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
63 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
66 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
67 Added to interface documentation.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
72 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
78 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
81 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
82 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
83 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
85 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
86 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
87 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
88 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
89 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
94 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
97 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
98 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
99 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
100 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
101 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
102 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
106 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
108 * Typo. Closes: #653006
109 * Typo. Closes: #653339
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
113 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
116 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
117 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
118 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
119 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
120 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
124 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
127 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
128 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
129 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
130 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
131 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
132 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
133 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
137 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
143 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
146 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
147 may need to disable this.
148 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
149 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
150 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
151 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
155 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
158 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
159 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
163 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
166 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
167 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
169 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
170 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
171 to dh. Closes: #643069
172 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
173 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
177 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
180 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
181 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
182 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
183 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
185 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
186 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
187 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
189 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
190 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
191 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
192 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
193 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
194 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
195 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
196 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
197 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
198 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
199 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
200 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
201 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
202 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
203 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
207 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
214 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
217 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
219 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
225 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
228 Use override targets instead.
229 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
230 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
231 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
232 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
233 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
234 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
235 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
236 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
237 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
238 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
243 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
246 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
250 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
256 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
259 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
260 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
261 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
262 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
263 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
264 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
268 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
271 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
272 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
273 the targets. Closes: #629139
274 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
275 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
276 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
277 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
278 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
279 are already set to other values will not be changed.
281 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
282 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
283 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
284 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
285 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
290 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
296 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
299 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
300 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
304 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
307 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
308 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
309 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
310 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
311 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
312 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
313 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
318 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
322 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
323 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
325 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
326 changes may be added to that mode.
327 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
328 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
329 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
330 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
331 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
332 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
333 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
334 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
335 * Removed old example rules files.
336 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
340 * update french translation.
341 * Fix french misspelling.
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
345 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
348 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
352 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
355 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
356 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
357 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
358 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
359 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
360 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
361 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
365 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
368 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
369 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
370 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
371 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
372 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
373 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
375 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
376 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
377 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
378 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
379 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
380 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
381 (Thanks, David Prévot)
382 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
383 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
384 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
385 target fails. Closes: #601037
386 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
388 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
389 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
390 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
391 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
392 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
394 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
395 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
397 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
398 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
399 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
401 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
403 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
406 * update french translation.
407 * Fix french misspelling.
408 * French translation update after massive man page typography
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
412 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
418 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
422 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
424 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
428 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
430 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
431 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
432 introduced by the fix to #527990.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
436 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
439 changes are planned for that mode.
440 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
441 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
442 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
443 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
444 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
445 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
446 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
447 (genesis) still uses them.
448 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
449 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
450 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
451 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
452 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
453 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
454 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
455 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
456 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
457 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
458 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
459 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
460 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
461 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
462 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
463 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
464 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
465 commands. (See #570039)
466 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
468 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
473 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
477 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
478 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
479 in control file or debhelper config files.
480 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
484 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
487 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
488 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
492 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
495 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
499 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
502 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
503 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
507 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Updated French translation.
510 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
511 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
512 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
513 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
515 * Typo. Closes: #571968
516 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
517 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
518 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
519 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
520 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
521 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
522 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
523 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
524 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
526 * dh: Improve documentation.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
530 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
532 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
533 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
534 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
538 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
541 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
545 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
548 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
552 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
555 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
556 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
557 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
558 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
559 options that they do not support.
560 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
561 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
562 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
563 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
564 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
565 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
570 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
574 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
575 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
576 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
577 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
578 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
579 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
580 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
581 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
582 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
586 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
589 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
590 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
591 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
592 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
596 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Typo. Closes: #558654
599 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
600 installed. Closes: #558782
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
604 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
607 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
608 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
609 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
610 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
611 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
615 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
617 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
618 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
619 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
620 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
624 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
627 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
628 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
632 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
634 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
638 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
640 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
641 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
642 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
643 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
644 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
645 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
646 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
647 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
648 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
649 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
650 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
651 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
652 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
653 time soon.) Closes: #554509
654 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
656 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
657 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
658 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
659 document id. Closes: #555677
660 * Typo. Closes: #555659
661 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
662 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
663 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
664 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
666 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
667 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
668 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
673 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
676 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
677 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
678 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
679 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
680 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
681 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
682 translation (#494300 part 2)
685 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
687 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
688 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
689 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
690 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
691 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
695 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
697 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
698 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
699 (It was only run once due to logging.)
700 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
701 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
702 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
703 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
704 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
705 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
706 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
707 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
708 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
709 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
713 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
716 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
717 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
720 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
721 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
725 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
728 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
729 flag with arch all/any packages.
730 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
731 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
732 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
733 situation. Closes: #540794
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
737 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
741 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
742 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
743 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
744 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
745 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
748 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
749 the default. Closes: #538201
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
754 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
758 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
759 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
760 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
761 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
762 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
764 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
765 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
766 * Above Closes: #491117
767 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
772 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
775 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
778 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
779 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
780 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
784 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
787 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
788 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
789 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
790 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
791 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
796 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
799 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
800 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
804 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
806 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
810 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
812 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
813 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
815 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
816 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
817 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
821 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
823 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
824 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
828 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
834 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
836 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
837 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
838 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
843 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
845 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
849 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
852 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
853 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
854 created by using `python' first during build and install.
856 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
861 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
863 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
867 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
869 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
870 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
874 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
876 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
880 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
882 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
886 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
888 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
889 contributed by Modestas Vainius
890 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
891 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
892 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
893 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
894 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
895 that support it. Closes: #480577
896 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
897 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
898 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
900 - Adds support for cmake.
901 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
902 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
904 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
906 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
907 that use them. The options are:
908 --sourcedir, --destdir
909 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
910 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
911 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
912 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
913 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
917 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
923 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
926 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
927 default. Closes: #537140
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
931 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
934 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
935 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
939 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
942 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
946 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
949 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
953 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
956 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
958 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
959 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
960 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
964 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
967 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
968 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
969 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
973 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
976 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
977 warning or deprecation message.
978 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
979 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
980 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
981 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
982 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
983 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
984 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
985 Closes: #534639, #357434
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
989 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
995 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
998 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
999 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1000 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1001 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1003 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1004 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1005 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1009 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1015 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1022 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1025 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1029 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1033 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1034 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1036 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1037 file support. Closes: #494914
1038 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1042 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1045 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1046 parameters. Closes: #527256
1047 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1048 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1049 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1053 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1056 (Patch from #459548)
1057 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1058 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1059 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1063 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1066 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1067 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1068 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1072 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1075 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1076 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1078 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1079 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1080 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1084 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1088 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1092 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1095 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1096 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1097 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1098 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1103 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1109 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1112 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1113 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1114 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1115 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1116 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1118 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1119 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1120 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1121 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1122 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1123 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1127 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1130 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1131 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1132 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1133 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1134 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1136 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1140 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1142 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1146 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1148 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1149 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1150 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1151 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1152 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1153 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1154 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1155 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1156 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1157 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1158 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1162 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1164 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1165 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1167 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1168 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1169 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1170 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1172 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1173 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1177 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1180 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1181 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1182 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1183 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1184 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1185 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1187 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1188 that uses them. Affected options are:
1189 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1190 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1191 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1192 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1193 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1194 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1195 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1196 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1197 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1198 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1199 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1200 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1204 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1211 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1217 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1220 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1222 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1223 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1224 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1225 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1226 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1227 than the old method.
1228 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1230 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1231 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1232 rules (see bug #509756).
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1236 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1242 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1243 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1244 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1245 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1249 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1252 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1253 empty files. Closes: #490937
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1257 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1263 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1270 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1273 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1274 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1275 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1276 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1281 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1283 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1284 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1285 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1286 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1290 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1293 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1294 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1295 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1296 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1297 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1301 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1308 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1311 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1312 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1313 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1314 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1315 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1316 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1317 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1318 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1319 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1323 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1326 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1327 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1328 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1329 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1331 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1332 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1333 breaking backwards compatibility.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1337 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1340 message in perl 5.10.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1344 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1350 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1353 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1357 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1360 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1364 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1367 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1368 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1369 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1370 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1371 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1372 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1373 logging by dh_listpackages.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1377 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1380 run and there are no packages of that type.
1381 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1382 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1383 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1384 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1386 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1387 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1391 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1394 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1395 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1399 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1402 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1403 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1405 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1406 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1407 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1408 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1409 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1410 planned but not yet implemented.)
1411 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1412 if the Makefile has such a target.
1413 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1414 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1415 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1416 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1417 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1418 but not yet implemented.)
1419 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1420 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1421 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1422 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1423 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1425 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1427 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1428 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1430 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1431 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1432 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1437 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1440 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1441 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1445 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1447 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1448 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1449 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1453 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1459 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1465 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1468 just those installed by the program.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1472 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1475 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1476 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1480 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1483 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1484 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1485 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1486 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1490 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1493 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1494 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1498 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1501 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1502 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1506 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1509 with policy. Closes: #461392
1510 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1511 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1512 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1513 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1514 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1518 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1521 Closes: #460340, #460351
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1525 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1528 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1529 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1530 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1531 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1535 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1538 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1539 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1540 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1541 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1542 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1543 package build directory won't work.
1544 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1545 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1546 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1547 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1548 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1549 mode. Closes: #459426
1550 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1555 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1558 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1562 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1566 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1567 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1568 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1569 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1570 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1571 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1575 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1578 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1579 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1580 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1581 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1585 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1588 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1589 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1590 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1591 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1592 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1596 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1599 debian/package.triggers files.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1603 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1606 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1610 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1613 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1614 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1615 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1616 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1621 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1624 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1628 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1631 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1632 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1634 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1639 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1643 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1644 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1645 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1649 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1656 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1663 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1666 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1668 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1669 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1670 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1672 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1673 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1674 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1678 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1681 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1682 * Update urls to web page.
1683 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1684 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1685 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1686 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1690 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1693 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1694 - typo in alternatives call
1695 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1697 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1698 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1702 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1705 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1710 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1716 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1722 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1725 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1727 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1728 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1729 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1730 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1731 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1732 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1733 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1734 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1735 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1736 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1737 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1741 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1744 package install. Closes: #415717
1745 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1746 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1747 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1748 script and then remove the python files.
1749 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1750 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1751 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1752 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1753 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1754 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1755 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1756 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1757 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1758 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1759 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1760 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1761 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1765 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Correct typo in french translation
1771 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1772 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1774 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1776 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1777 Closes: #406921, #381940
1778 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1780 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1781 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1782 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1783 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1784 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1785 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1786 specified). Closes: #381851
1787 * Misc minor changes.
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1791 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1798 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1799 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1803 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1809 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1810 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1813 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1814 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1816 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1817 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1818 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1819 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1823 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1826 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1829 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1833 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1839 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1845 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1846 a difficult situation.
1847 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1848 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1849 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1850 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1851 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1852 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1853 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1854 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1855 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1856 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1860 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Non-maintainer upload.
1863 * Update of dh_python
1864 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1865 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1867 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1868 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1869 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1870 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1871 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1873 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1875 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Non-maintainer upload.
1878 * Update of dh_python
1879 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1880 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1881 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1882 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1883 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1884 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1885 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1886 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1887 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1888 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1890 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1891 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1892 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1893 the not too-distant future).
1894 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1895 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1896 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1897 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1898 thus made the build fail.
1900 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1902 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Non-maintainer upload.
1905 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1907 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1909 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1912 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1913 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1914 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1915 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1916 package. Closes: #301424
1917 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1918 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1919 fonts). Closes: #372686
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1923 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1929 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1930 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1931 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1932 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1933 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1934 above, but already depends on that.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1938 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1941 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1942 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1943 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1944 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1945 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1949 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1955 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1961 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1962 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1966 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1969 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1973 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1977 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1978 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1979 new version (0.24.1).
1980 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1981 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1984 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1985 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1986 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1987 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1988 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1989 new directory on their own.
1990 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1991 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1995 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1998 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1999 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2000 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2001 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2005 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2008 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2009 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2010 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2011 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2012 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2016 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2022 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2026 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2027 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2031 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2032 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2036 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2038 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2039 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2041 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2042 ignored. Closes: #337664
2044 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2049 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2055 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2060 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2061 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2062 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2063 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2064 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2065 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2066 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2070 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2073 version. Closes: #350607
2074 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2075 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2076 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2077 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2081 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2084 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2085 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2086 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2090 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2097 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2103 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2106 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2110 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2113 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2114 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2115 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2116 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2117 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2118 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2122 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2125 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2126 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2131 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2134 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2138 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2141 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2145 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2148 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2149 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2150 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2151 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2152 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2153 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2157 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2161 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2162 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2163 link. Closes: #346405
2164 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2166 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2167 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2168 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2169 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2170 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2171 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2172 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2176 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2183 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2189 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2192 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2196 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2199 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2204 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2208 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2209 installed. Closes: #342033
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2213 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2216 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2217 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2218 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2223 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2229 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2235 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2239 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2240 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2241 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2245 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2248 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2253 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2260 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2266 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2269 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2270 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2271 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2272 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2273 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2274 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2275 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2277 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2281 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2284 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2285 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2289 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2292 in standard man dirs.
2293 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2297 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2303 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2306 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2311 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2318 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2325 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2328 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2329 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2333 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2336 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2337 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2338 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2340 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2342 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2354 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2357 mode. Closes: #324161
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2361 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2364 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2365 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2366 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2367 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2375 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2376 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2377 is necesary for sanity.
2378 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2379 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2384 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2386 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2387 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2394 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2398 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2404 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2407 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2408 released, so use at your own risk.
2409 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2410 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2412 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2413 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2414 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2415 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2416 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2417 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2418 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2419 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2420 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2421 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2422 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2423 including twice per config file line now..
2424 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2425 and simplfy the rules file.
2426 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2427 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2428 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2430 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2431 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2438 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2442 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2445 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2449 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2452 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2456 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2459 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2460 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2461 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2462 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2463 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2464 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2468 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2471 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2472 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2473 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2478 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2481 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2482 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2487 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2490 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2491 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2492 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2497 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2500 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2501 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2502 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2506 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2512 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2519 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2522 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2523 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2524 unknown. Closes: #282924
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2528 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2535 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * Spanish man page updates.
2538 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2543 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2549 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2552 * dh_desktop: reindent
2553 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2554 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2558 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2564 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2566 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2570 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2572 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2576 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2579 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2580 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2584 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2590 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2596 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2603 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2606 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2610 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2613 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2614 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2615 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2616 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2617 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2618 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2620 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2621 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2622 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2623 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2624 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2625 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2626 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2627 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2628 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2629 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2630 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2631 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2632 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2633 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2634 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2635 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2639 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2646 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2649 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2653 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2656 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2660 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2663 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2667 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2670 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2674 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2680 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2686 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2692 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2695 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2696 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2697 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2701 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2704 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2708 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2711 but occasionally right and necessary.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2715 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2718 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2719 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2720 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2721 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2722 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2726 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2729 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2731 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2732 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2733 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2734 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2735 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2736 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2737 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2738 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2739 postinst scripts for udebs.
2740 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2744 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2747 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2749 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2750 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2754 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2760 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2767 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2774 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2777 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2781 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2784 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2788 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2791 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2794 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2795 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2799 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2805 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2808 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2812 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2815 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2816 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2817 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2819 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2821 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2822 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2823 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2827 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2830 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2835 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2838 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2839 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2840 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2845 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2851 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2857 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2860 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2861 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2862 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2863 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2864 associated -dbg packages.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2868 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2871 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2875 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2878 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2882 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2885 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2889 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2892 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2897 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2900 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2904 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2907 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2912 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2915 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2919 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2923 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2924 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2925 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2926 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2927 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2928 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2929 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2930 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2931 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2932 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2936 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2939 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2944 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2947 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2948 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2952 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2955 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2956 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2961 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2964 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2968 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2971 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2975 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2978 out section number. Closes: #204731
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2982 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2989 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2995 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3001 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3004 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3005 removal. Closes: #204286
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3009 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3012 renaming. Closes: #203548
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3016 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3019 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3020 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3024 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3030 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3036 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3042 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3045 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3046 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3047 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3051 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3054 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3055 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3059 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3065 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3072 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3075 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3080 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3083 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3087 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3090 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3092 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3093 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3097 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3100 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3105 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3108 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3112 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3118 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3120 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3124 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3127 it break hard links (see #188663).
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3131 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3134 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3138 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3144 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3148 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3149 debconf-mergetemplates
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3153 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3156 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3160 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3163 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3167 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3170 * Update debhelper(1).
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3174 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3177 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3178 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3179 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3180 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3181 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3185 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3188 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3189 the shell. Closes: #178524
3190 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3194 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3197 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3201 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3204 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3208 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3211 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3212 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3213 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3214 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3219 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3222 files from installation.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3226 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3229 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3230 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3234 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3237 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3241 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3244 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3248 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3254 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3260 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3264 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3265 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3267 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3271 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3274 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3275 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3276 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3277 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3281 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3284 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3288 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3291 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3292 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3296 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3300 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3305 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3311 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3315 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3316 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3317 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3322 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3325 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3326 practice. Closes: #163303
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3330 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3336 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3343 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3346 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3348 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3349 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3350 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3351 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3352 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3356 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3359 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3364 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3370 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3377 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3380 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3385 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3391 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3397 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3403 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3410 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3413 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3414 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3415 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3416 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3421 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3427 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3434 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3437 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3438 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3442 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3445 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3446 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3447 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3448 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3449 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3453 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3456 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3458 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3463 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3466 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3470 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3473 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3474 right thing. Closes: #150644
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3478 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Stupid, evil typo.
3481 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3485 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3492 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3495 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3496 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3501 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3507 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3510 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3514 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3517 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3518 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3523 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3526 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3530 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3536 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3539 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3540 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3544 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3550 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * Removing perl warning message.
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3556 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3559 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3560 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3561 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3562 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3563 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3564 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3565 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3566 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3570 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3576 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3583 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3586 debconf-mergetemplate.
3587 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3588 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3592 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3595 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3596 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3597 dh_install, which ...
3598 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3599 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3600 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3601 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3602 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3603 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3604 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3605 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3606 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3607 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3608 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3609 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3610 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3611 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3612 other minor changes.
3613 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3614 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3615 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3616 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3617 course there's -X ..)
3618 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3619 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3620 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3622 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3623 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3624 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3625 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3626 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3631 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3637 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3640 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3644 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3650 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3656 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3662 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3668 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3671 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3672 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3673 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3674 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3676 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3677 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3681 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3687 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3690 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3694 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3697 upset. Closes: #131322
3699 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3701 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3704 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3705 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3706 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3707 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3708 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3709 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3710 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3711 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3712 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3713 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3714 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3715 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3716 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3717 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3718 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3720 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3724 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3727 - Better indenting of generated code.
3728 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3732 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3736 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3737 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3738 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3739 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3740 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3741 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3742 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3746 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3749 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3753 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3756 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3757 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3758 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3759 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3760 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3761 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3762 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3763 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3764 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3765 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3766 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3767 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3768 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3769 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3770 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3775 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3781 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3784 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3785 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3789 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3792 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3793 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3797 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3803 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3806 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3807 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3808 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3809 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3810 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3815 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3821 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3824 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3828 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3831 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3836 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3842 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3845 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3849 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3855 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3859 Also some indentation fixes.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3863 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3866 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3867 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3868 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3869 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3870 Closes: #106514, #85520
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3874 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3880 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3886 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3892 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3898 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3904 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3907 change it in debhelper v4..
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3911 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3917 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3920 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3924 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3927 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3931 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3937 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3940 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3941 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3942 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3943 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3944 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3945 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3946 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3947 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3948 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3949 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3950 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3951 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3955 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3958 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3962 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3969 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3972 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3973 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3974 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3975 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3976 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3977 program those options go to. So, for example,
3978 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3979 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3980 something complex. Closes: #89311
3981 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3985 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3988 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3989 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3990 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3994 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3997 through loop. Closes: #98598
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4001 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Missing semi-colon.
4004 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4005 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4009 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4012 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4013 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4014 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4018 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4021 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4022 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4026 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4029 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4033 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4036 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4037 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4041 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4044 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4045 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4046 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4050 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4053 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4054 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4055 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4059 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4062 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4066 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4072 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4078 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4084 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4090 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4093 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4097 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4100 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4101 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4102 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4103 followed. Closes: #85483
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4107 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4109 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4110 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4111 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4115 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4118 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4119 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4120 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4121 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4122 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4123 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4124 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4125 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4126 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4127 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4128 Closes: #88464, #77743
4129 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4130 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4131 us to deal with that gracefully.
4132 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4134 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4135 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4136 a while, Closes: #51225
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4140 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4146 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4149 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4153 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4157 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4162 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4165 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4166 don't make packlist files.
4167 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4168 debhelper coding standards.
4169 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4170 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4174 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4177 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4181 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4184 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4185 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4186 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4187 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4188 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4189 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4190 but is mildly deprecated.
4191 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4192 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4193 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4194 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4195 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4196 switching to statoverrides..
4197 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4198 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4199 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4200 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4201 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4202 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4204 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4205 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4206 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4207 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4208 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4209 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4210 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4211 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4212 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4214 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4215 variable names, pod man pages).
4216 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4217 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4218 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4219 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4220 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4221 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4222 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4226 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4232 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4239 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4242 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4246 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4248 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4249 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4250 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4254 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4256 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4257 they were previously ignored.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4261 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4263 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4264 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4268 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4270 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4271 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4272 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4276 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4278 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4282 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4284 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4285 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4289 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4291 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4292 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4293 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4294 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4295 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4296 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4297 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4298 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4299 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4300 it is an obsolete program.
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4304 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4306 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4310 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4314 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4316 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4320 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4322 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4324 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4326 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4330 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4336 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * typo: Closes, #78567
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4342 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4348 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4354 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4357 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4358 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4359 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4360 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4361 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4365 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4368 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4373 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4376 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4377 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4378 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4379 backwards-compatibility.
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4383 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4386 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4387 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4388 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4389 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4390 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4391 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4393 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4394 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4395 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4397 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4399 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4400 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4401 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4402 should now be raised to severity important..
4403 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4404 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4408 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4411 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4416 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4422 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4428 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4434 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4441 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4444 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4445 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4446 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4447 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4451 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4457 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4460 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4461 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4462 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4463 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4464 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4465 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4470 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4473 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4477 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4483 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4486 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4491 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4494 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4495 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4496 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4497 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4501 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4505 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4508 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4511 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4512 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4515 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4517 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4518 the TODO entry about it.
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4522 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4529 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4532 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4533 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4537 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4540 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4541 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4542 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4543 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4547 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4553 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4560 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4563 (this appears to be logal).
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4567 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4570 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4571 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4572 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4573 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4577 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4579 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4583 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4586 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4587 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4588 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4589 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4593 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4599 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4602 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4606 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4613 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4616 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4617 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4618 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4623 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4630 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4636 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4639 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4640 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4641 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4642 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4643 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4644 notice until v2 is complete.
4645 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4646 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4647 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4648 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4649 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4650 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4652 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4653 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4654 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4655 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4659 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4665 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4672 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4675 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4679 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4686 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4689 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4690 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4691 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4692 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4697 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4700 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4701 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4702 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4707 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4710 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4711 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4715 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4718 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4722 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4725 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4729 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4736 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4739 depend on the build and install targets.
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4743 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4746 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4750 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4757 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4763 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4769 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4772 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4773 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4774 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4775 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4776 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4777 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4779 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4780 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4781 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4782 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4783 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4784 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4785 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4789 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4795 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4801 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4804 right place. Closes: #55065
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4808 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4815 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4818 * Copyright date updates.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4822 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4825 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4830 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4836 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4843 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4849 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4855 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4861 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4864 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4865 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4866 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4867 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4868 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4869 bits until all files have been registered.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4873 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * dh_installmanpages:
4876 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4877 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4878 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4879 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4880 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4881 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4882 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4883 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4884 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4885 otherwise change the result at all.
4887 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4888 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4889 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4890 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4891 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4896 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4902 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4905 act on files that don't exist.
4906 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4907 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4908 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4910 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4911 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4912 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4913 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4917 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4923 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4929 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4932 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4936 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4939 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4941 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4942 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4943 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4947 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4950 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4951 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4952 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4953 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4954 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4955 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4956 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4958 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4960 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4964 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4971 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4977 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4983 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4986 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4990 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4996 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5002 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5005 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5006 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5007 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5008 I made some changes, though:
5009 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5010 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5011 that is a clear violation of policy.
5012 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5013 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5014 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5015 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5016 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5017 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5018 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5019 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5020 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5022 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5026 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5032 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5035 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5039 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5042 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5043 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5048 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5054 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5061 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5064 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5065 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5066 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5067 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5068 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5069 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5070 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5074 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5076 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5080 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5084 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5085 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5089 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5095 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5098 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5102 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5105 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5106 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5110 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5112 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5117 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5121 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5125 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5127 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5128 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5129 for the dependancies to be generated.
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5133 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5136 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5140 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5143 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5144 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5145 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5150 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5152 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5153 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5154 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5158 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5164 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5170 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5173 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5177 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5183 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5186 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5187 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5188 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5189 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5190 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5191 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5192 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5193 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5194 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5195 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5196 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5197 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5201 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5204 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5205 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5207 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5208 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5209 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5210 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5211 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5212 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5214 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5215 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5219 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5222 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5226 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5233 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5236 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5241 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5243 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5244 for building debhelper.
5245 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5249 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5256 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5259 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5263 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5266 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5267 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5268 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5269 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5270 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5271 it's always available.
5273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5275 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5277 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5278 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5279 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5280 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5284 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5287 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5288 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5292 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5298 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5301 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5305 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5311 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5314 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5315 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5316 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5320 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5323 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5328 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5331 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5332 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5334 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5335 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5339 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5345 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5351 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5354 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5358 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5361 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5362 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5364 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5368 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5371 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5372 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5373 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5377 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5379 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5380 things if CDPATH is set.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5384 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5390 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5393 seems to make sense for the transition.
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5397 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5400 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5405 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5408 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5409 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5413 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5416 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5420 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5423 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5424 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5425 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5426 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5430 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5436 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5439 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5440 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5441 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5442 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5443 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5444 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5445 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5446 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5447 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5448 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5453 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5456 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5457 * README: mention doc/v2
5458 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5459 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5463 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5465 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5466 be using this script RSN.
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5470 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5473 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5474 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5475 more than 1 init script.
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5479 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5482 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5486 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * Changed perl version detection.
5489 * Changed call to find.
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5493 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5495 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5496 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5498 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5503 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * Really include dh_installpam.
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5509 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5512 * Wrote man page for same.
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5516 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5519 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5520 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5525 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5532 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5535 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5536 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5537 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5538 x bit was being set!
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5542 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5545 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5546 well. (Closes: 38900)
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5550 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5553 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5554 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5558 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5564 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5571 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5577 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5580 help from Julian Gilbey.
5581 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5582 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5583 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5584 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5585 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5586 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5587 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5592 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5598 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5605 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5611 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5617 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5620 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5624 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5627 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5631 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5634 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5638 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5644 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5646 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5647 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5651 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5657 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5663 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5666 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5667 may be deleted. (#35845)
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5671 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * Various man page enhancements.
5674 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5679 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5682 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5683 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5687 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5689 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5690 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5691 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5692 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5694 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5695 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5700 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5706 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * Another very minor typo fix.
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5712 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * Very minor typo fix.
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5718 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5721 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5722 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5726 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5732 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5735 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5736 variables properly (#34850).
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5740 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5746 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5749 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5750 (automatically generated by build process).
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5754 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5756 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5760 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5763 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5764 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5766 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5770 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5773 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5777 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * README: minor typo fix.
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5783 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5786 leave it at that. :-)
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5790 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5796 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5802 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5805 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5806 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5807 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5811 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5813 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5814 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5818 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5821 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5825 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5827 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5828 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5829 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5830 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5831 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5835 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5838 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5839 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5840 Craig Small for spotting this.
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5844 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5847 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5848 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5852 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5858 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5861 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5865 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5867 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5868 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5869 working on the last version of debhelper.
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5873 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5875 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5876 being made. (#23255)
5878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5880 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5882 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5886 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5888 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5889 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5893 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5896 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5897 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5898 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5899 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5903 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5905 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5906 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5907 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5908 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5909 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5911 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5912 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5914 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5919 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5925 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5927 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5931 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5933 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5934 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5935 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5936 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5937 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5938 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5939 suidregister actually supports it.
5940 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5941 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5945 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5947 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5952 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5954 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5955 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5956 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5957 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5958 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5959 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5960 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5961 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5965 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5967 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5968 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5972 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5975 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5976 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5977 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5978 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5982 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5984 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5985 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5987 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5988 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5989 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5990 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5991 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5992 effect, either. (#30118)
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5996 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6002 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6005 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6006 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6010 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6012 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6016 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6018 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6019 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6020 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6021 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6022 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6026 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6029 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6030 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6034 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6040 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6042 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6043 packages, painlessly.
6045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6047 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6049 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6053 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6055 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6059 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6061 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6065 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6067 * The perl conversion is complete.
6069 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6071 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6072 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6073 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6078 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6080 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6081 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6082 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6083 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6087 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6090 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6092 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6094 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6095 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6099 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6102 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6103 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6107 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6113 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6116 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6117 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6118 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6119 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6120 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6124 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6127 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6128 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6129 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6130 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6134 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6137 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6141 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6144 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6145 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6146 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6147 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6148 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6149 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6150 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6151 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6155 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6157 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6161 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6163 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6164 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6165 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6166 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6171 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6173 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6174 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6178 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6181 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6185 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6187 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6188 sections of shared libraries.
6189 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6190 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6191 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6192 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6193 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6194 things you don't want them to.
6195 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6196 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6200 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6202 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6203 shared libraries. (#26414)
6205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6207 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6209 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6210 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6211 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6212 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6216 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6220 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6222 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6223 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6224 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6225 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6226 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6230 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6232 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6233 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6237 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6239 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6240 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6241 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6246 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6248 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6249 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6253 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6255 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6256 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6257 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6258 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6259 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6260 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6262 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6263 remove debian/files properly.
6264 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6265 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6266 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6267 * Removed bogus menu file.
6269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6271 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6273 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6274 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6278 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6280 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6281 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6282 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6283 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6284 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6285 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6286 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6290 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6293 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6294 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6295 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6296 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6300 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6302 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6307 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6309 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6310 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6311 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6313 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6314 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6315 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6316 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6317 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6318 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6322 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6324 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6325 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6326 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6327 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6328 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6329 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6330 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6331 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6332 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6333 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6334 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6335 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6336 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6337 passed any switches.
6338 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6342 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6344 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6345 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6346 at all for a long while.
6347 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6348 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6349 large chunks in the process.
6350 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6351 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6352 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6357 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6359 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6360 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6362 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6367 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6369 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6370 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6371 that don't always have the same files in them.
6372 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6373 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6374 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6378 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6380 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6382 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6383 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6384 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6385 updating 27 man pages.
6386 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6387 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6388 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6389 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6390 programs act on. (#25247)
6392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6394 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6398 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6399 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6400 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6401 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6402 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6403 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6408 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6410 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6415 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6417 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6422 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6424 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6425 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6429 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6431 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6435 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6437 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6438 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6439 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6440 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6441 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6442 package by accident.
6443 * Is version 1.0 next?
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6447 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6449 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6450 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6451 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6455 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6458 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6459 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6460 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6461 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6462 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6464 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6469 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6471 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6472 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6473 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6477 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6479 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6480 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6484 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6486 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6487 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6488 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6493 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6495 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6499 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6501 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6502 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6503 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6508 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6510 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6514 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6516 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6517 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6518 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6519 past week. Thanks, guys!
6521 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6522 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6523 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6524 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6525 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6526 would do in the same situation.
6527 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6528 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6530 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6532 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6533 permissions changed.
6534 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6535 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6536 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6537 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6538 files are treated identically.
6539 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6540 * Minor man page fixes.
6541 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6542 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6543 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6547 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6549 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6550 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6551 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6552 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6553 use -X multiple times, too.
6554 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6555 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6559 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6561 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6562 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6563 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6567 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6569 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6570 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6574 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6576 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6577 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6578 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6579 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6580 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6581 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6582 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6583 shape if you're starting a new package.
6585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6587 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6589 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6590 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6594 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6596 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6597 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6598 because of missing symlinks.
6600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6602 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6604 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6608 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6610 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6611 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6612 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6613 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6614 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6615 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6617 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6618 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6622 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6624 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6625 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6626 to be changed after the fact :-)
6627 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6631 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6633 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6634 no version string after the -V.
6636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6638 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6640 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6641 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6646 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6648 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6649 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6653 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6655 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6656 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6657 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6658 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6659 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6660 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6661 I always welcome corrections!
6663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6665 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6667 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6671 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6673 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6674 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6675 * Documented this new switch.
6677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6679 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6681 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6682 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6683 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6684 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6685 no packages use the old behavior.
6687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6689 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6691 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6692 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6693 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6697 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6699 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6700 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6704 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6706 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6710 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6712 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6713 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6717 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6719 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6720 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6721 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6722 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6726 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6728 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6732 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6734 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6735 into the source package by accident.
6737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6739 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6741 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6742 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6743 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6744 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6745 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6746 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6747 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6752 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6754 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6756 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6757 inspired to implement some of it.
6758 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6762 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6764 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6765 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6769 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6771 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6772 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6773 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6777 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6779 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6780 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6781 have done.) (#17598)
6783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6785 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6787 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6791 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6793 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6797 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6799 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6800 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6804 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6806 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6807 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6808 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6812 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6814 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6815 argument processor in perl.
6816 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6817 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6818 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6819 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6823 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6825 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6826 type directories. (#16933)
6827 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6828 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6829 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6830 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6831 are supported. (#16935)
6832 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6837 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6839 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6840 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6844 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6846 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6848 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6849 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6850 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6851 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6852 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6853 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6857 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6859 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6860 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6861 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6863 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6864 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6865 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6866 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6867 a given package, or -i or -a.
6868 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6869 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6870 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6871 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6872 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6873 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6874 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6875 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6876 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6878 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6879 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6880 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6884 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6886 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6887 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6888 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6893 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6895 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6896 does not have a section.
6898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6900 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6902 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6903 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6904 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6905 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6909 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6911 * Fixed typo #16215.
6913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6915 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6917 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6918 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6919 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6920 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6921 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6922 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6927 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6929 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6930 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6931 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6932 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6937 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6939 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6943 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6945 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6949 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6951 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6952 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6953 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6954 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6955 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6956 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6957 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6961 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6963 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6967 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6969 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6970 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6974 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6976 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6977 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6978 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6979 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6983 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6985 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6986 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6990 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6992 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6996 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6998 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6999 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7003 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7005 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7006 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7010 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7012 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7016 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7018 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7019 postinst, postrm, etc.
7021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7023 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7025 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7029 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7031 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7032 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7033 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7034 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7035 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7036 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7040 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7042 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7043 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7044 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7048 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7050 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7051 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7055 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7057 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7058 installing package files into.
7059 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7064 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7066 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7068 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7072 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7074 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7078 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7080 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7081 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7085 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7087 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7088 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7089 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7090 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7091 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7095 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7097 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7098 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7099 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7100 multiple binary packages.
7101 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7102 should rebuild them with this version.
7103 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7107 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7109 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7110 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7114 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7116 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7117 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7121 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7123 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7124 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7125 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7126 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7127 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7128 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7129 debian/README.debian.
7130 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7131 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7132 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7133 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7134 in a few situations.)
7136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7138 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7140 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7144 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7146 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7150 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7152 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7153 * Fixed several man pages.
7155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7157 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7159 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7160 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7161 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7165 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7167 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7168 is ready for general use.
7169 * Added man pages for all commands.
7170 * Multiple binary package support.
7171 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7172 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7173 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7175 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7176 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7177 auto-installed as parameters.
7178 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7180 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7183 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7184 the package build directory it is to act on.
7185 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7186 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7187 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7191 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7193 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7194 ready to replace debstd.
7196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400