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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-14 20:15:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-14 20:15:44 +0000 |
| commit | b91f5837f107761e5b86ddd5f39f4aa0b8385ca0 (patch) | |
| tree | ae618e20fc9f8193a709e98be356438b84a0ef1d /debian/changelog | |
| parent | Adding upstream version 13.3.4. (diff) | |
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Adding debian version 13.3.4.debian/13.3.4debian
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog new file mode 100644 index 0000000..24ca8e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -0,0 +1,10967 @@ +debhelper (13.3.4) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Jakub Wilk ] + * debhelper.pod: Add missing space after ")" + + [ Translations ] + * Update French translation (Jean-Pierre Giraud) (Closes: #982675) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 06 Mar 2021 09:53:10 +0000 + +debhelper (13.3.3) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_installsysusers: Add systemd-sysusers as alternative provider + in the ${misc:Depends} dependency as that is the name used by + opensysusers. + + [ Translations ] + * Update Portuguese translation (Américo Monteiro) (Closes: #981567) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:43:32 +0000 + +debhelper (13.3.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Team upload. + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * cmake.pm: Correct parameter -DCMAKE_BUILD_RPATH_USE_ORIGIN=ON + passed to cmake in compat 14+. Thanks to Raul Tambre for + reporting the issue. (Closes: #977255) + * dh_strip: Fix wording. Thanks to Chris Leick and Pfannenstein + Erik. + * debhelper.pod: Fix typos. Thanks to Chris Leick and + Pfannenstein Erik. + * dh_makeshlibs: Ditto. + * debian/control: Bump Standards-Versions to 4.5.1. No changes + required. + + [ Axel Beckert ] + * Extend dh_installdocs documentation on debian/$pkg.doc-base.* with + regards to when deduplication does not work and may cause + uninstallable packages. (Mitigates: #980903) + + [ Translations ] + * Update German translation (Pfannenstein Erik) (Closes: #979608) + + -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org> Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:53:24 +0100 + +debhelper (13.3.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * d/control: Bump dependency on dwz to pull newer version of dwz + in buster-backports, which makes backporting easier. Thanks to + Anthony Fok for the patch and for backporting dwz. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Mon, 28 Dec 2020 16:52:01 +0000 + +debhelper (13.3) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_md5sums: When reading the conffiles file, ignore every line + except those starting with a slash "/". + * SequencerUtil.pm,dh_testroot: Let dh skip dh_testroot when + the builder supports Rules-Requires-Root and it is set to "no". + * Dh_Lib.pm: Provide a more helpful error message when + lintian-overrides config files are executable by mistake. + * dh_gencontrol: Discard the "Protected" field in dbgsym packages. + Thanks to Axel Beckert for reporting the issue. + (Closes: #976323) + * dh_installsysusers: New tool to install and integrate sysusers + into debian packaging. Thanks to Michael Biebl and Moritz + Muehlenhoff for feedback and initial testing. + (Closes: #962384) + * d/control: Remove transitional package for dh-systemd. Thanks + to Michael Biebl for poking reverse dependencies to migrate and + getting us ready to remove it. (Closes: #871312) + * cmake.pm: Pass VERBOSE=1 to make by default when building to + ensure that gmock builds are also verbose. Thanks to + Johannes Schauer for reporting the issue. (Closes: #973029) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Disable "unicode_strings" feature, which caused + issues with UTF-8 encoded files. Thanks to Sebastien Bacher + for reporting the issue. (Closes: #971362) + * dh_installinfo: Work around upstream installing the + usr/share/info/dir file. If seen, dh_installinfo will now + tag it as "installed" even though it is not installed. This + avoids promoting the installation of the file by dh_missing + only to have lintian tell people to remove it again. + (Closes: #971036) + + [ Michael Biebl ] + * autoscripts/postrm-systemd-reload-only: Run daemon-reload on + "remove" only. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 06 Dec 2020 20:11:53 +0000 + +debhelper (13.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * debian/changelog: Fix some typos in previous entries. + * Dh_Lib.pm,Dh_Buildsystems.pm: Properly clear buildflags with + --reload-all-buildenv-variables is passed. Thanks to + Harald Welte and Guillem Jover for reporting and debugging + the issue. (Closes: #966689) + * dh_missing: Improve message about related files found. Thanks + to Diego Escalante for reporting the issue. (Closes: #966834) + + [ Peter Pentchev ] + * dh_installalternatives: Correct order of values in the example for + Dependents links. (Closes: #966285) + + [ Chris Lamb ] + * dh_missing: Sort order of missing files to make output + deterministic. (Closes: #968187) + + [ Translations ] + * Update Portuguese translation (Américo Monteiro) (Closes: #964784) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 12 Sep 2020 20:27:03 +0000 + +debhelper (13.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_missing: Explicitly remind people that they should not + copy-waste multi-arch paths directly into debian/not-installed. + Instead, recommend the use of wildcards of ${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH} + to replace the hardcoded value. + * d/changelog: Clarify what dh_installman change in 13.1 related to + #958343 was about. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Add support for raising compat deprecation warnings to + an error if there are pending removals. This currently triggers + for usage of compat 5 and 6. + * cmake.pm: Pass -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON -DBUILD_RPATH_USE_ORIGIN=ON + to cmake in compat 14. This should fix some reproducibility + issues but may cause breakage if packages run binaries directly + from the build directory. Thanks to Timo Röhling for the + suggestion. (Closes: #962474) + * dh,dh_auto_*: Change the handling of XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in compat 13. + It is now only set to a writable directory for dh_auto_test but + set to a much shorter directory avoid issues with socket lengths. + In all other cases, the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is now cleared. Thanks to + Simon McVittie for the report. (Closes: #961655) + * debhelper.pod: Document that --sourcedir clashes between dh_auto_* + and dh_missing (etc.). Thanks to Thorsten Glaser for reporting + the issue. (See #964230) + * PROGRAMMING: Minor improvements and clarifications to the API + documentation. + + [ Anel Husakovic ] + * debhelper.7: Fix typo/grammatical errors. + + [ Translations ] + * Update Portuguese translation (Américo Monteiro) (Closes: #962568) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 05 Jul 2020 21:14:04 +0000 + +debhelper (13.1) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_installinitramfs: Remove misleading "in compat 12" as the + behaviour was unrelated to the compat level. + * dh_installinitramfs: Migrate to triggering update-initramfs + via activate-noawait trigger (replacing maintscript calls to + "update-initramfs -u", which had the same affect). + (Closes: #822730). + * dh_installman: Improve error messages and handling of broken + section numbers. Notably, the auto-detection no longer picks + section numbers that look suspiciously like a version number + (or a date). This can cause dh_installman to reject manpages + if it can no longer guess a suitable section for the manpage + Thanks to Paul Gevers for reporting the bug. + (Closes: #958343) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Support that Architecture (among other fields) can be + folded in d/control. Thanks to Thorsten Glaser for reporting + the issue. (Closes: #958987) + * SequencerUtil.pm: Fix use of uninitialized variable warning. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Properly error out on paragraphs missing the Package + field (rather than silently ignoring them). + * debian/rules: Fix call to gen-provides that seemed to work more + due to luck than by design. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Provide HIGHEST_STABLE_COMPAT_LEVEL, which reflects + the latest stable compat level. Thanks to Jelmer Vernooij + for the suggestion. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Respond to DH_DATAFILES environment variable in + addition to DH_AUTOSCRIPTS as a means to find data files. This + is mostly useful for testing purposes or to be "self-hosting". + The new DH_DATAFILES is more general than DH_AUTOSCRIPTS and + enable us to add new data file sources without inventing new + environment variables. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Require perl v5.24 (available in Debian oldstable) + to enable more modern features. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix a bug in variable substitution where ${Tab} + incorrectly expanded to "\b" rather than "\t". + * dh_installchangelogs: Loosely document which file names that + dh_installchangelogs uses as guesses for finding an upstream + changelog file. Thanks to Laurent Bigonville for suggesting + the change. (Closes: #933224) + * Dh_Lib.pm: When setting HOME or XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in compat 13, + use an absolute path. Thanks to Dmitry Shachnev for reporting + the issue. (Closes: #959731) + * dh_installsystemd: Copy the description for the + --no-stop-on-upgrade option from dh_installinit. + * dh_installsystemd: Have --no-start or --no-stop-on-upgrade + disable --restart-after-upgrade as the documentation says it + will. Thanks to Axel Beckert for reporting the issue. + (Closes: #959678) + * dh_installinit: Ditto. + * dh: Explicitly document that hook targets can cause + complications when they are made unconditional by a makefile + target and suggest alternatives. Thanks to Marcin Owsiany for + reporting this. (Closes: #645873) + * cmake.pm: Rollback -DCMAKE_AUTOGEN_VERBOSE=ON temporarily as it + trips bhlc due to a bug in cmake. Thanks to Nicolas + Braud-Santoni and "anoteng" for reporting the issue. + (Closes: #959494) + * dh_clean: Rephrase the description of dh_clean to avoid + confusion about when it is run. Thanks to Hugh McMaster for + the suggestion. (Closes: #960110) + * dh_missing: Update documentation to reflect that the + --fail-missing option is now the default in compat 13. + Thanks to Hugh McMaster and Christoph Berg for the report. + (Closes: #960107, #960697) + * dh: Filter out the root-sequence in "--list" output and reject + attempts to activate or deactivate the sequence as it is an + implementation detail. + * dh_installalternatives: New helper that can setup alternatives + (update-alternatives) based on a declarative format. Currently, + the format is converted to calls to update-alternatives, which + are inserted into the maintscripts of the package. Thanks to + David Engel and Fumitoshi UKAI for the original requests. + (Closes: #43720) + * dh_missing: Attempt to guess if missing files might be caused by + the packager installing the same file via a different path and + let them know of this. (Closes: #960781) + + [ Guillem Jover ] + * autoconf.pm: Pass --disable-option-checking to ./configure + scripts to avoid warnings about unknown options. + (Closes: #942813) + + [ Translations ] + * Fix typo in German translation. (Andreas Bombe) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 17 May 2020 17:07:30 +0000 + +debhelper (13) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * debian/changelog: Fix typo of a bug number in the 12.10 + entry. Thanks to Andy Caldwell for reporting it. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Flag compat 9 as deprecated as announced in + https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/02/msg00000.html + * dh_install: Remove trailing slashes from value to the --sourcedir + parameter. This avoids dh_install computing an incorrect directory + name. Thanks to Mihai Moldovan for reporting the issue. + (Closes: #955568) + * dh_missing: Ditto. + * SequencerUtil.pm/dh: Fix bug where the long forms of --builddirectory + and --sourcedirectory might be ignored by dh causing it to skip + dh_auto_* when it should not. This is in practice only a problem in + compat 13 as long form of arguments are not optimized in compat 12 or + earlier. + + [ Chris Leick ] + * debhelper.pod: Fix typos. + * dh_makeshlibs: Ditto. + * dh: Ditto. + + [ Helmut Grohne ] + * perl_makemaker.pm: Add missing import of "warning" function. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:44:56 +0000 + +debhelper (12.10) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_installsystemd: Improve documentation about tmpfiles that + are now handled by dh_installtmpfiles in compat 13. + * dh_installtmpfiles: Prefer debian/package.tmpfiles over + debian/package.tmpfile, but accept the old path with a warning. + Thanks to Michael Biebl for suggesting the change. + * dh_strip: Automatically strip Link-Time Optimization (LTO) + symbols from static archives. The format is not stable between + compiler versions. Thanks to Matthias Klose for the + suggestion and for providing the exact options. + (Closes: #939656) + * dh: Tweak the command-skipping optimization to skip commands + in a few more cases when the command is known not to react to + command line options. + * dh,dh_installsytemd*: Work around broken NOOP promise caused by + dh_installsystemd* using nonstandard "package@" prefix for + pkgfiles. Thanks to Badreddin Aboubakr and Andy Caldwell for + reporting it. (Closes: #950723, #951820) + + [ Nicholas Guriev ] + * cmake: Verbose autogen rules. + * cmake: Skip install all dependency with compatibility level 13 and + above. + + [ Andy Caldwell ] + * dh_installsystemduser: Fix bug that prevented dh_installsystemduser + from installing parameterized services. (Closes: #951819) + + [ Translations ] + * Update German translation (Chris Leick) (Closes: #951917) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:55:09 +0000 + +debhelper (12.9) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * debhelper.7: Clarify how DH_OPTIONS works and that some + third-party tools may ignore it if they do not support + it. Thanks to Andrej Shadura for reporting the issue + over IRC. + * doc/PROGRAMMING: Introduce a section on the NOOP PROMISE + comment. + * dh: In compat 13, skip calls to hook and override targets + for dh_auto_test, dh_dwz and dh_strip. Thanks to + Mike Hommey for suggesting it. (Closes: #568897) + * Dh_Getopt.pm: Remove support for "--ignore". No package + uses it any more. For most parts, it has been replaced + by the "3.0 (quilt)" source format. + * debian/changelog: Clarify that substitutions change in + 12.8 only apply to the maintscript file (and not + maintainer scripts) for dh_installdeb. + * debhelper.7: Improve text in compat 13 section. + * autoconf.pm: Only consider "configure" as an autoconf + script if it is a file (and not a directory). Thanks to + Andrius Merkys for reporting the bug and providing a + patch. (Closes: #949396) + * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.5.0 - no + changes required. + * dh_shlibdeps: Pass "--" in front of filenames passed to + file(1). Thanks to Christoph Biedl for the suggestion. + (Closes: #949538) + * dh_strip: Ditto + * dh.1: Improve documentation for override targets and + include a section on the new hook target. + (Closes: #885994) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Make it possible to disable the command + logging by passing "inhibit_log => 1" to the init sub. + Furthermore, the logging is now only enabled when init + is called (and not disabled by that option or + inhibit_log()). This prevents Dh_Lib from triggering + a log write just by being loaded. + * dh: Refactor addon loading. As a side-effect, dh no + longer leaks as many functions into the scope of addons. + Addons depending on the previous behaviour may now fail + due to calls to undefined subroutines and will need to + be fixed. + * dh_installinitramfs.1: Correct the name of localized + versions of dh_installinitramfs so that man can find + them. + + [ Thorsten Glaser ] + * dh_auto_*: Make it possible to disable build systems by + passing --buildsystem=none. Previously this would + require overriding each and every dh_auto_* tool. + (Closes: #949635) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Mon, 27 Jan 2020 20:45:05 +0000 + +debhelper (12.8) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * Dh_Lib.pm: Simplify internal logging of which commands + have been run. We are no longer interested in whether + it was an override target or not. + * dh: Support "execute_before_X" and "execute_after_X" + targets in debian/rules. This is useful for injecting + commands before or after the command "X" that dh runs. + Note this feature requires compat 10 or later due to + internal limitations in debhelper. Attempts to use + it in compat 9 will trigger an error. Thanks to + Christoph Berg for the suggestion. (Closes: #885994) + * dh: Detect and warn about override and hook targets + for known obsolete commands. In compat 13, this will + be an error instead of a warning. + * dh: Reset umask to 0022 as a consistent default value. + Thanks to Thorsten Glaser for the suggestion. + (Closes: #944691) + * dh_missing: The --fail-missing parameter is now default + in compat 13. Thanks to Mattia Rizzolo for the + suggestion. (Closes: #917368) + * dh_installtmpfiles: New command extracted from + dh_installsystem that will handle tmpfiles.d + configuration. Thanks to Michael Biebl for the + suggestion. (Closes: #944478) + * dh_installsystemd: In compat 13, this command will no + longer manage tmpfiles.d configuration. + * dh: Run dh_installtmpfiles by default in compat 13. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Emit "error" and "warning" with error and + warning messages. Thanks to Paul Wise for the + suggestion. (Closes: #906723) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Support colored output for warnings and + errors (enabled by default). The colors can be + controlled by setting DH_COLORS or DPKG_COLORS. The + latter will also affect dpkg-related tools. + Note: NO_COLOR is respected in the absence of + DH_COLORS and DPKG_COLORS. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Support substitution variables in files + handled by filearray and filedoublearray in compat 13. + This also applies to executable configuration files. + As the substitution occurs after splitting the files + into tokens, it can be used to include spaces in the + tokens (often file names). (Closes: #198507) + * dh_install: Support substitution configuration files. + * dh_clean: Ditto. + * dh_installcatalogs: Ditto. + * dh_installdeb: Ditto (debian/*.maintscripts only). + * dh_installdirs: Ditto. + * dh_installdocs: Ditto. + * dh_installexamples: Ditto. + * dh_installinfo: Ditto. + * dh_installman: Ditto. + * dh_installwm: Ditto. + * dh_link: Ditto. + * dh_missing: Ditto. + * dh_ucf: Ditto. + * debian/rules: Remove override for dh_missing as the + --fail-missing parameter is default now. + + [ Helmut Grohne ] + * Warn about missing perl-xs-dev for perl_* buildsystems. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 19 Jan 2020 10:02:16 +0000 + +debhelper (12.7.3) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_perl: Use perl:any for perl module in addition to perl + programs. Thanks to Helmut Grohne and Niko Tyni for the + suggestion and analysis. (Closes: #946655) + * dh_gencontrol: Clear the "Built-Using" flag for dbgsym + packages. It is irrelevant as the original binary will + have the field plus the field can cause lintian warnings. + (Closes: #947506) + * lintian-overrides: Override no-dh-sequencer as it is a + false-positive that lintian cannot be expected to know. + + [ Debian Janitor ] + * Fix day-of-week for changelog entry 4.0.0. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 29 Dec 2019 17:59:47 +0000 + +debhelper (12.7.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh: Skip conditional dh sequence addons in the clean target. + This avoids FTBFS with conditional addons where the + build-dependency is not satisfied. (Closes: #944225) + * meson.pm: Fix bug where dh_auto_test would break horribly + under compat 13 due to an uninitialized variable. Thanks to + Benjamin Jacobs for reporting the issue. (Closes: #945149) + * dh_installman: Fix non-deterministic behaviour when there + multiple definitions of the same manpage in a package. + In compat 13, this is resolved by aborting with an error. + In older compat levels, dh_installman will deterministically + pick a canonical version (via sort) along with emitting a + warning. Thanks to Colin Watson for reporting the issue. + (Closes: #943705) + * dh_auto_*: In compat 13+, reset HOME and XDG_* environment + variables. Some are cleared and some are set to a writable + directory that persist until dh_clean. Thanks to + Simon McVittie for reporting the issue. + (Closes: #942111) + * dh_auto_*: As a side-effect of the above, debhelper in compat + 13+ no longer trips a FTBFS in sbuild for meson packages when + ccache is installed but not configured/used explicitly. + Thanks to Simon McVittie for reporting the issue. + (Closes: #933799) + * d/control: Bump Standards-Versions to 4.4.1 - no changes + required. + + [ Andrius Merkys ] + * debhelper.pod: Document changes to the gradle third-party + build system in compat 13. + + [ Translations ] + * Update German translation (Chris Leick) (Closes: #943853) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 07 Dec 2019 17:44:32 +0000 + +debhelper (12.7.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Colin Watson ] + * dh_installman: Correctly handle compressed manpages when + dh_installman uses man-recode. (Closes: #943376) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 26 Oct 2019 06:42:04 +0000 + +debhelper (12.7) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_installman: Avoid error message when man-db is not installed + (only occurs in debhelper's own build as man-db is a mandatory + dependency). + * dh_installman: Use man-recode(1) when available to massively + speed up re-encoding performance for any package with a non- + trivial amount of manpages. Thanks to Robert Luberda for + reporting the issue and Colin Watson for writing man-recode + (Closes: #933576) + * debhelper.pod: Actively discourage compat 11 as it has an + issue that causes services not to start correctly in all cases + (e.g. install, remove-but-not-purge, install again), which + cannot be fixed. + * dh_auto_*: Support a new --reload-all-buildenv-variables + option for resetting the cache (of e.g. dpkg-buildflags). + This is needed by e.g. parted which does two builds with + different CFLAGS. + * dh_makeshlibs: Suggest/Document that --no-add-udeb can be + relevant for some udebs where the shared library for the udeb + is embedded in a different package (e.g. the main udeb + package). Thanks to Nicolas Braud-Santoni for reporting the + issue. (Closes: #942454) + * meson.pm: Fix invalid call under compat 13. Thanks to + Jeremy Bicha for testing it. (Closes: #942690) + + [ Helmut Grohne ] + * cmake buildsystem: Fix CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR for 32bit arms. + (Closes: #941245) + + [ Niko Tyni ] + * Basic support cross building XS modules: + + perl_makemaker: run Makefile.PL with host arch Config.pm + + perl_build: run Build.PL and Build with host arch Config.pm + + dh_perl: scan host arch include directories for Perl plugins + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 20 Oct 2019 17:48:06 +0000 + +debhelper (12.6.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Upload to unstable now that libdebhelper-perl has been through + the NEW queue. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 15 Sep 2019 10:08:53 +0000 + +debhelper (12.6) experimental; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_makeshlibs: Fix regression where versionless SONAMEs could + trigger a rejection of the "generated" shlibs file (despite + dh_makeshlibs not generating any "shlibs" files). + (Closes: #939635) + * dh_strip: Avoid impossible copy of .../debug/.dwz/ to itself + when a manual debug package contained ELF files and was + processed by dh_dwz before dh_strip. (Closes: #939164) + + [ Sven Joachim ] + * Split debhelper into debhelper (the tools) and libdebhelper-perl + (the Perl libraries). (Closes: #821130) + * d/rules: Call dh_missing --fail-missing to catch bugs where files + are not installed anywhere. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 14 Sep 2019 06:37:44 +0000 + +debhelper (12.5.4) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installxfonts: Remove version in dependency on xfonts-utils + added to ${misc:Depends}. The version requirement has been + satisfied for the past 3-4 releases. + * dh_makeshlibs: Correct a control check that was only intended + for automatic udeb detection, which incorrectly also checked + when --add-udeb was passed. Thanks to Andreas Metzler for + reporting the issue. (Closes: #935577) + * dh: Fix bug where overrides for dh_dwz, dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs + or dh_shlibdeps could be triggered via binary-indep in compat + 12 and earlier. Thanks to Andreas Beckmann for reporting the + issue. (Closes: #935780) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 01 Sep 2019 07:23:05 +0000 + +debhelper (12.5.3) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Dh_Getopt.pm: Skip compat call if d/control cannot be found + and just assume that auto-abbreviation can be disabled in that + case. This avoids breaking options such as --help and --list. + (Closes: #935017) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Jump to hoops to only parse the Build-Dependency + field in dh without breaking dh's own --list or --help + parameter. This fixes a regression since 12.5 where dh's + --help and --list options were broken. + * dh_builddeb: Revert removal of --destdir for now. It is in + fact used to hardcode paths in some cases e.g. v4l2loopback's + debian/rules.modules. + * dh_makeshlibs: Disable auto-filtering of udeb libraries. It + cannot be implemented without violating the requirements for + the noudeb build-profile. + * dh_makeshlibs: Fix invalid error under the noudeb profile + where the absence of udeb content is expected rather than an + in issue. (Closes: #934999) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:50:19 +0000 + +debhelper (12.5.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_makeshlibs: Fix regression in compat 10 and earlier where + dh_makeshlibs now failed on error. This safety check was + intended to be a compat 11 or later feature. + * dh: Ensure addon API functions return 1 to avoid gratuitous + breakage of addons due to perl's idiosyncrasy of requiring a + truth value at the end of modules. (See #935016) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 18 Aug 2019 07:36:20 +0000 + +debhelper (12.5.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installdeb: Allow "+" to appear in token names as it is + a valid character for package names. + * dh_installdeb: Reject invalid token names passed to -D or + --define (in most cases). + * dh_makeshlibs: Fix bug in -X where it would no longer match + as expected. A regression since 12.5 - thanks to Aurelien + Jarno for reporting the issue over IRC. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 17 Aug 2019 15:09:07 +0000 + +debhelper (12.5) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_strip: Skip stripping of guile-2.2 files by skipping all + all files matching "/guile/.*\.go$". Thanks to Jeremy Bicha + and Rob Browning. (Closes: #907061) + * dh_auto_*: Officially adopt --sourcedir and --builddir as official + parameters. They have always worked since debhelper defaulted to + supporting auto-abbreviated parameters, so this is simply documenting + fait accompli for the most common abbreviation. + * dh_*: Disable auto-abbreviation of command line parameters in compat + 13. + * dh: Optimize out redundant helpers even when passed long options in + compat 13. + * dh_builddeb: Remove --destdir. It has never been useful as everyone + expects the debs to be placed in "..". + * Dh_Lib.pm: Add a hint to resolve the error caused by having the + compat level specified both as a build-dependency and in + debian/compat. Thanks to Alessandro Grassi for reporting the issue + on IRC. + * dh_makeshlibs: Fix bug where --no-add-udeb could trigger the + auto-detection code. (Closes: #934891) + * dh_makeshlibs: When using the auto-detection of udeb, automatically + exclude "udeb:" lines for libraries omitted from the udeb. At the + same time, verbosely fail if the udeb contains a library not present + in the deb (overridable with --add-udeb). (Closes: #934889) + * dh: Support making "dh-sequence-ADDON" Build-Depends relation + conditional on build-profiles (etc.). If the relation is ignored due + to the current build-profiles (etc.), then addon is silently skipped. + * dh: Support running addons in "arch-only" or "indep-only" mode by + adding "dh-sequence-ADDON" in Build-Depends-Arch or + Build-Depends-Indep (respectively). Not all addons support this and + will trigger an error at load time. Addon providers should ensure + that their package provide "dh-sequence-ADDON" and review the + doc/PROGRAMMING document (in the debhelper source) if they are + considering to make their addon compatible with these requirements. + (Closes: #836699) + * dh,elf_tools.pm: Extract the ELF related debhelper tools (dh_strip, + dh_dwz, dh_makeshlibs, dh_shlibdeps) into their own addon called + "elf-tools" enabled by the default. + * debian/control: Provide dh-sequence-elf-tools. + * dh: In compat 13, the "elf-tools" addon is considered an implicit + "arch-only" addon (i.e. they are only available in "-arch" sequences + and are always passed a "-a"). If you need the ELF tools for arch:all + packages, please add an explicit Builds-Depends on dh-sequence-elf-tools. + + [ Frank Schaefer ] + * dh_installmodules: Also look for compressed kernel modules + in addition to uncompressed kernel modules (gz, bz2 or xz). + + [ Adam Borowski ] + * d/s/lintian-overrides: Override lintian warning about debhelper + not using debhelper. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 17 Aug 2019 10:54:08 +0000 + +debhelper (12.4) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh: Retroactively remove support for manual dh sequence + operators (--until, --after, --before and --remaining). + This breaks about 8 source packages that still rely on this + feature and have not yet migrated away. (Closes: #932537) + Please see the debhelper bug for relevant bug numbers and + package names. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:07:01 +0000 + +debhelper (12.3) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Translations ] + * Update Portuguese translation (Américo Monteiro) (Closes: #927394) + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_installsystemduser: Fix bug that would neuter sorting of unit + files and make the resulting maintscripts unreproducible. Thanks + to Daniel Kahn Gillmor for reporting the bug. (Closes: #932646) + * dh_dwz: Remove the -q flag when calling dwz(1). It is + sufficiently silently with -q and aids with debugging for others. + (Closes: #933561, #931792) + * dh_dwz: Gracefully handle when dwz fails to create a multifile + but succeeds anyway by default. The previous behaviour of + insisting on a multifile can be obtained by explicitly passing + --dwz-multifile. (Closes: #933541) + * dh_dwz: Skip multifile generation for udeb packages. + (Closes: #933212) + * dh_makeshlibs: Attempt to automatically detect udeb packages + for a given (non-udeb) library package. In simple cases, it + can replace the need for an explicit --add-udeb parameter. + However, there are many cases where the auto-detection falls + short and --add-udeb is still needed (see dh_makeshlibs(1) + for details). Packagers are advised to verify the resulting + shlibs file before removing --add-udeb in an upload. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Tue, 06 Aug 2019 16:55:26 +0000 + +debhelper (12.2.3) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installinit: Revert "Fail with an error if --name is given but + there is no matching init script.". (Closes: #932073, + Reopens: #462389) + * Dh_Getopt.pm: Produce a better error message when -p<pkg> is + ignored in an architecture constrained override (e.g. during an + architecture specific build and the -p argument refers to an + arch:all package). Thanks to Helmut Grohne for reporting the + issue. (Closes: #932262) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:18:03 +0000 + +debhelper (12.2.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_shlibdeps: Remove regex anchor when parsing file(1) to avoid + regressions with setuid/setgid binaries. Thanks to James + Cowgill for reporting the issue. (Closes: #932240) + * dh_strip: Ditto. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Tue, 16 Jul 2019 21:03:38 +0000 + +debhelper (12.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Dmitry Bogatov ] + * dh_installinit: Fix regression where dh_installinit bailed + out on --name if only one of the acted on packages had an + init script file. Thanks to Helmut Grohne for reporting + the issue. (Closes: #932073) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Tue, 16 Jul 2019 20:21:32 +0000 + +debhelper (12.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * Dh_Lib.pm: Ensure the error function always triggers the same + exit code on termination. Previously, it depended on the + value of the last error (if any). + * Buildsystem/make: Fix regression where cross-flags were + passed in a non-cross build. (Closes: #925175) + * dh_perl: Fix code to prune (skip) /usr/share/doc which + never worked. + * doc/PROGRAMMING: Document that the environment variable + DH_AUTOSCRIPTDIR can be used for testing purposes to + shadow existing or test new autoscript snippets. Thanks + to Dmitry Bogatov for the suggestion. (Closes: #925281) + * dh_compress: Exclude .haddock and .hs files (as this is + customary for haskell packages). + * dh_installinfo: Update NOOP PROMISE to account for + dh_missing's needs. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor for + reporting the issue. (Closes: #930689) + * debhelper.pod: Document that debhelper will use + dpkg-buildflags for setting CFLAGS et al and that it is + recommended to rely on dpkg-buildflags's features for + extending the default. (Closes: #923626) + * dh_strip: Make dh_strip more robust with issues from + file(1). Thanks to Christoph Biedl for reporting the + issue. (Closes: #931995) + * dh_shlibdeps: Pass --brief to file(1) and anchor the + output parsing regex to avoid false-positive + misdetections. Thanks to Christoph Biedl for the + suggestion. (Closes: #931996) + * dh_strip: Ditto. + * dh_installman: Improve documentation to be more clear + about exactly which new features dh_installman got in + compat 11. Thanks to Laurent Bigonville for pointing + out the issue. (Closes: #912999) + * dh_strip: Pass --no-sandbox to file(1) when run under + fakeroot and file(1) appear to support the option. + Thanks to Christoph Biedl for requesting the feature. + (Closes: #932006) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Support substituting additional variables + into the generated maintainer scripts. These include + DEB_(BUILD|HOST|TARGET)_* and ENV.* which point to the + variables from dpkg-architecture(1) and variables from + the environment (respectively). + * dh_installdeb: Support additional substitution variables + on the commandline via -DTOKEN=VALUE to replace #TOKEN# + with VALUE. (Closes: #25235) + * d/control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.4.0 - no changes + required. + + [ Helmut Grohne ] + * Buildsystem/cmake: Fix CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR for mips64el. + (Closes: #926815) + + [ Dmitry Bogatov ] + * dh_installinit: Fail with an error if --name is given but + there is no matching init script. Thanks to A Mennucc + for reporting the issue. (Closes: #462389) + + [ Translations ] + * Update Portuguese translation (Américo Monteiro) (Closes: #886279) + + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 14 Jul 2019 10:29:20 +0000 + +debhelper (12.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installinitramfs: Install hooks as executable rather than + plan files. Thanks to Thorsten Glaser for the report. + (Closes: #922990) + * dh_compress: Fix bug where examples where compressed when a + doc package shipped examples for another package. Thanks to + Christian Kastner for reporting this. (Closes: #922795) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 23 Feb 2019 13:24:47 +0000 + +debhelper (12.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Xavier Guimard ] + * dh_fixperms: add .node in mode_0644_patterns. + + [ Sylvestre Ledru ] + * dh_strip: Print a warning when an ELF binary does not have a + build-id (or when dh_strip cannot find it). + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * Dh_Lib.pm: Strip leading and trailing whitespace from lines in + regular debhelper config files. Whitespace-only lines from + executable config files are now explicitly detected and triggers + a human readable error message early rather than warnings/errors + about uninitialized variables. Thanks to Ben Finney for the + suggestion and the initial patch. (Closes: #919853) + * meson.pm: Dump "meson-logs/testlog.txt" if testing fails with + an error. Thanks to Jeremy Bicha for the suggestion. + (Closes: #918066) + * dh_missing: Clarify the documentation about when -X with other + helpers can may dh_missing ignore paths that are not installed. + Thanks to Hilko Bengen for reporting the original documentation + was insufficient. (Closes: #917362) + * d/control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.3.0 - no changes required. + + [ Baptiste Jammet ] + * fr.po: Update French translation. (Closes: #921254) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 10 Feb 2019 20:33:53 +0000 + +debhelper (12) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * Release debhelper/12 marking compat 12 as stable. + * dh: Special NOOP PROMISE of cli-options() to always allow skipping + the helper (as we know no option can make it change behaviour). + + [ Dmitry Shachnev ] + * dh_compress: Do not compress mkdocs search indices + (search_index.json). + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Mon, 24 Dec 2018 13:47:55 +0000 + +debhelper (11.5.4) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * Dh_Lib.pm: Reopen stdin to read from /dev/null in doit (and its sibling + functions) to prevent issues when stdin is open in write-only mode + (which is what nohup(1) does). Thanks to Julian Gilbey for reporting + the issue and providing a sample patch for it as well. + (Closes: #913663) + * fr.po: Add missing dash in "--parallel" in a translation. Thanks to + Christian Marillat for reporting the issue. (Closes: #915255) + * debhelper.7: Document that the "python-distutils" build system is + removed in compat 12. Thanks to Axel Beckert for reporting the + omission. (Closes: #915530) + + [ Luca Boccassi ] + * makefile.pm: revert passing V=0/1 to makefiles. Fixes FTBFS in apcupsd + (and possibly more). + (Closes: #914419) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:18:47 +0000 + +debhelper (11.5.3) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Helmut Grohne ] + * cmake.pm: Pass the usual CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR for ppc64el + when cross compiling. (Closes: #913425) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 10 Nov 2018 21:42:12 +0000 + +debhelper (11.5.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Luca Boccassi ] + * makefile.pm: Pass V=0 or V=1 to the make file depending on + whether "terse" is set in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_gconf: Mark dh_gconf as deprecated (see #908845). + * Dh_Lib.pm: Separate lowest non-deprecated compat level and + the lowest compat level we generate "debhelper-compat (= X)" + relations for. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Open compat level 13 as an experimental compat + level. + * meson.pm: In compat 13, run tests with "meson test" rather + than "ninja test". Thanks to Simon McVittie for the + suggestion. (Closes: #912560) + * dh: Correctly include dh_installsystemduser in the sequence + in compat 12. It was excluded due to an inverted boolean + meaning it was added in compat up to (and incl.) compat 11. + Thanks to Michael Biebl for reporting the issue. + (Closes: #913329) + * fr.po: Correct translations for dh_installman.1 which + incorrectly implied that dh_installman was deprecated. + Thanks to Laurent Bigonville for reporting the issue. + (Closes: #912978) + + [ Helmut Grohne ] + * cmake.pm: Pass QMAKE_EXECUTABLE when cross-building. + (Closes: #913415) + + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 10 Nov 2018 19:51:25 +0000 + +debhelper (11.5.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_systemd_start: Fix bug introduced in debhelper/11.5 where + dh_systemd_start would fail to substitute a token in the + generated maintscript for maintainer scripts when using + "--restart-after-upgrade" (including when the option is + on by default). Thanks to Colin Watson for reporting the + bug. (Closes: #912420) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Wed, 31 Oct 2018 21:02:00 +0000 + +debhelper (11.5) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Daniele Nicolodi ] + * dh_installsystemduser: New helper responsible for installing package + maintainer supplied systemd user instance units and to produce + postinst and postrm maintainer scripts code blocks to appropriately + enable, mask and disable units when the package is installed, + upgraded, or removed. (Closes: #764678) + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_installsystemd.1: Improve the documentation for --name to make + it more clear that it also changes the name of the source files in + the debian directory. Thanks to Emel Hasdal for reporting the + issue and reviewing the change. (Closes: #899983) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 28 Oct 2018 16:07:01 +0000 + +debhelper (11.4.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * debhelper.pod: Quote the value of INSTALL in description of + compat level 11. Thanks to Josh Triplett for the suggestion + (Closes: #908906) + * d/changelog: Fix typos in old entries. + * dh_strip: Remove empty /usr/lib/debug directories left over + by dh_dwz. Thanks to Ferenc Wágner for reporting the issue. + (Closes: #909303) + * dh: Disable optimization to skip tools based on command-line + parameters when dh is passed long options. Since debhelper + had implicit support for auto-abbreviation of long options + and people have started to rely on it, the optimization in + debhelper/11.4 caused regressions. The optimization is + still enabled for short options. (Closes: #909704) + + [ Josh Triplett ] + * debhelper.pod: Document how to declare the debhelper compat + level via the "debhelper-compat (= X)"-method. + (Closes: #908909) + * debhelper.pod: Document that we do not provide debhelper-compat + for experimental/beta versions of compat levels. + (Closes: #908907) + * doc/PROGRAMMING: Fix typos. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 30 Sep 2018 15:49:38 +0000 + +debhelper (11.4) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_dwz.1: Remove now obsolete note in manpage claiming that dh_dwz + was experimental. Since debhelper/11.3, dh_dwz was no longer + experimental. + * cmake.pm: Explicitly set CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR on native builds. + This should not make any practical difference but aligns the + behaviour of native and cross builds. Thanks to Simon McVittie + for the suggestion. (Closes: #903042) + * autoconf.pm: Leave --libexecdir at upstream default (/usr/libexec) + in compat 12 and later. (Closes: #859724) + * meson.pm: Ditto. + * dh: Support implicitly loading addons via "dh-sequence-${name}" + relations in Build-Depends (which would imply "dh ... --with ${name}"). + Only simple relations in Build-Depends are considered at the moment. + * debian/control: Provide dh-sequence-dwz, dh-sequence-installinitramfs, + and dh-sequence-systemd, which enables packages to use the new + feature to implicitly autoload dh addons via Build-Depends. + * dh_md5sums: Rewrite handling of conffiles and excludes to better + support an arbitrary number of files that should be omitted from the + md5sums file. Previously, dh_md5sums could fail with the error: + """... "/bin/sh": Argument list too long at ...""" + (Closes: #864182) + * dh_installinit.1: Correct documentation which was inaccurate in relation + to which compat levels where dh_installinit still supported systemd + items and upstart jobs. Thanks to Theodore Y. Ts'o for bring up the + issue. + * dh_installdeb: In compat 12, ignore the maintainer provided conffiles. + It has not been useful since compat 3. + * Dh_Lib.pm: isnative() now also resets $dh{VERSION} as a side-effect when + using the cache to answer the request. This is mostly useful because + it enables the following optimization. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Have isnative() special-case debian/changelog to avoid + reparsing that file over and over in the same helper. + * dh_gconf: Explicitly declare the --priority parameter with the intention + to remove it from the default debhelper options. + * dh_installemacsen: Ditto. + * dh_installgsettings: Ditto. + * dh_installudev: Ditto. + * dh_installwm: Ditto. + * Dh_Getopt.pm: Remove --priority from the list of options supported by all + debhelper tools. The only external consumer was dh_installtex from + tex-common, which was fixed in 6.10. + * dh_installinit: In compat 12, pass --skip-systemd-native to update-rc.d + to make it ignore systemd services. + * dh_installsystemd: In compat 12, avoid relying on dh_installinit's + shell snippets for starting services. (Closes: #887904, #887900) + * dh_installinit: Drop unnecessary "systemctl daemon-reload" in + auto-generated postrm script. The systemd package has a trigger for + handling sysvinit scripts and dh_installsystemd handles the requirement + for native systemd unit files. + * dh_clean: Explicitly declare the -k/--keep parameter with the intention + to remove it from the default debhelper options. + * dh_installchangelogs: Ditto. + * dh_strip: Ditto. + * Dh_Getopt.pm: Remove -k/--keep from the list of options supported by all + debhelper tools. The only external consumer was dh_gtkmodules which is now + deprecated and a "noop" command. No consumers of dh_gtkmodules appear to + pass -k/--keep to dh_gtkmodules any longer. + * dh: Rewrite command line optimization logic to enable support for a new + NOOP PROMISE for command line options. This will make dh able to skip + helpers in some cases even when passed options. (Closes: #866581) + * dh_*: Add a NOOP PROMISE for command options where applicable. + * dh: Remove old compatibility code from compat 10 that never worked. + * Dh_Getopt.pm: Fix a bug that would make "-S" be interpreted as "-s" when + "-S" was not given an argument. + * debian/control: Bump Standards-Versions to 4.2.1 - no changes required. + * debhelper.pod: Declare compat 12 in beta testing. + + [ Juhani Numminen ] + * dh_installsystemd.1: Fix typo in manpage. + * dh_installinit.1: Ditto. + + [ Fabian Wolff ] + * dh_installdocs.1: Fix typo. + * dh_link.1: Ditto. + + [ Nicholas Guriev ] + * cmake.pm, autoconf.pm: honor QUIET setting (closes: #907738). + * Dh_Lib.pm: use terse build option to set QUIET setting (closes: #907595). + + [ Clément Hermann ] + * debhelper.pod: Document dh_golang's DH_GOLANG_EXCLUDES behaviour change + for compat 12 (closes: #908656) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:56:55 +0000 + +debhelper (11.3.5) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Dh_Lib.pm: Introduce a new glob_expand error handler to + better emulate the old style glob code to fail when a + non-glob entry in the config file is missing. + * dh_installdocs: Use the new glob_expand error handler to + restore the behaviour to that of debhelper/10.5.1 and older. + Thanks to Christoph Berg for reporting the issue. + (Closes: #902355) + * dh_installexamples: Ditto. + * dh_installinfo: Ditto. + * dh_installman: Ditto. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix a bug where ending debian/control on (what + debhelper believed was) a comment line could cause debhelper + to omit the last package listed in the file. Thanks to + Santiago Vila for reporting the bug. (Closes: #902748) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 30 Jun 2018 11:52:51 +0000 + +debhelper (11.3.4) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix bug that made the parser assign the wrong + value from the Build-Profiles field. Thanks to Sven Joachim + for reporting the bug. (Closes: #902268) + * debhelper.pod: Rewrite the compat 11 change on "main doc + packages" in an attempt to clarify what is happening in + compat 11. Thanks to Paul Gevers for pointing out some of + the confusing aspects. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 24 Jun 2018 09:46:35 +0000 + +debhelper (11.3.3) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * d/control: Remove versioned Breaks on qt5-qmake as it + prevents others from backporting qt5 packages to + stable-backports. The Breaks was added to assist + cross-building in buster and it has already served that + purpose by now. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Provide a more helpful diagnostic message when + an executable config file fails and it does not have a + #!-line (and is not an ELF binary). Thanks to Nadav + Ruskin for the suggestion. (Closes: #902214) + * debhelper.pod: Make a dedicated subsection about executable + debhelper config files to make them more prominent. Thanks + to Nadav Ruskin for the suggestion. (Closes: #901715) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Avoid forking a shell when running executable + debhelper config files. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Validate package names according the rules for + Debian packages. Thanks to Raphael Geissert and Tim + Düsterhus for the suggestion. (Closes: #567178) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Rewrite deb822 parser to validate d/control + more strictly. Particularly, debhelper no longer permits + the same field twice in a stanza. Thanks to Tim Düsterhus + for the suggestion. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Ensure that at most once definition of + (X-)Package-Type is used per stanza. + + [ Roberto C. Sánchez ] + * cmake.pm: Reorder arguments to cmake to make "-D FOO=BAR" + work. This form only works if it is before the directory + passed to cmake. + + [ Daniele Nicolodi ] + * dh_installsystemd: Improve man page. + * dh_installsystemd: Tighten error handling: fail immediately if an unit + name not installed by the package is specified on the command line. + * dh_installsystemd: Fix the undocumented '--no-also' command line + option to do not affect handling of the Alias= directives. + * dh_installsystemd: Add timer units to the list of units considered + when the '--name' option is specified. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 23 Jun 2018 18:30:08 +0000 + +debhelper (11.3.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installchangelogs: Fix a second regression that made + dh_installchangelogs ignore upstream changelogs in the + source directories. Thanks to gregor herrmann for + reporting the incomplete fix. (Closes: #899248) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Wed, 23 May 2018 05:59:59 +0000 + +debhelper (11.3.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installchangelogs: Fix logic error that made + dh_installchangelogs incorrectly ignore explicitly passed + changelogs. Thanks to Sven Joachim and Rene Engelhard + for reporting the bug. (Closes: #899248) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Mon, 21 May 2018 20:02:32 +0000 + +debhelper (11.3) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * Buildsystem.pm: Fix use of undefined variable in certain + error conditions. + * dh_makeshlibs: Support -VUpstream-Version and -VNone as + alternative to passing -V or omitting -V respectively. + * dh_makeshlibs: Make -VUpstream-Version the default in + compat 12 when -V is omitted. (Closes: #896464) + * dh_makeshlibs: Correct handling of an explicit -V when + a source builds multiple library packages and provides + explicit shlibs files for a subset of them. Previously, + the -V option could have been ignored for some of the + packages containing libraries. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fall back to a regular mv(1) when rename fails + with EXDEV (cross mount point moves). This restores + debhelper's ability to move files between mount points, + which can happen in dh_builddeb has to correct the + extension of a binary package built by dpkg-deb. + Thanks to Evan Krall for the report. (Closes: #897569) + * dh_missing.1: Consistently mention that dh_missing + defaults to --list-missing in compat 12. Thanks to + Robie Basak for spotting the contradicting documentation. + (Closes: #898161) + * dh_compress: Avoid adding a duplicate ".gz" extension on + a symlink if it already has it. This can happen e.g. with + dh_installman recompresses a manpage that was compressed and + had a valid symlink to it. Thanks to Andreas Hasenack for + reporting the bug. (Closes: LP: #1765851) + * debian/control: Depend on dwz for dh_dwz. + * dh_dwz: Generate a per-package multifile by default. This + feature can be disabled by --no-dwz-multifile. + * dh: Run dh_dwz by default in compat 12. + * dh_dwz: Remove warning about the dwz feature being experimental. + * dwz.pm: Ditto. + * dh_installsystemd: Use the basename of the "tmpfiles" config + files. This makes "systemd-tmpfiles --create" search for it + in both /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d and in /etc/tmpfiles.d. With + this change the system administrator can now override the + "tmpfiles" config shipped by the package in + /usr/libtmpfiles.d. Thanks to Nick Groenen and Seyeong Kim + for filing the bug. (Closes: #894510) + * dh_installinit: Ditto. + * dh_installchangelogs: Look for changelog files installed by the + upstream build system in the package build dir (i.e. d/<pkg>/ + and *not* debian/tmp!) and use them in preference to the one in the + source package where available. This avoids some cases of duplicated + upstream changelogs. Thanks to Evgeni Golov for the suggestion. + (Closes: #513521) + * dh_md5sums: Stop deleting empty md5sums files as dpkg (now) creates + the empty file on install if absent. Thanks to Rhonda D'Vine for + suggesting the improvement. (Closes: #776853) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Re-organise exports. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Retract "print_and_complex_doit"; the only potential + consumer went with a different code snippet. + * dh_installinitramfs: New tool to install initramfs hook scripts and + handle related maintscripts. Thanks to Evgeni Golov for the + suggestion. (Closes: #491027) + * installinitramfs.pm: New sequence to enable dh_installinitramfs in + compat 11 and earlier. + * dh_installdirs: Add --(no-)create-in-sourcedir option to make + dh_installdirs create directories in the source directory in addition + in the package build directory. Furthermore, dh_installdirs now + accepts --sourcedir to overrule the default source directory (just + like e.g. dh_install). Thanks to Robert Luberda for the suggestion. + (Closes: #816332) + * Buildsystem.pm: Move code from Dh_Buildsystems.pm to Buildsystem.pm + to make the latter independent of the former. This makes it possible + to load Buildsystem.pm without debian/control being present. Thanks + to Andreas Tille for the bug report. (Closes: #897026) + * dh_installinit.1: Fix some incorrect markup in the documentation of + --no-enable. + * makefile.pm: Revert the use of -O/-Oline for make, which helps + debugging what commands time out on the buildds. Thanks to + Adrian Bunk for the report. (Closes: #895196) + * dh_testroot.1: Update R³ documentation to reflect the current + implementation and not the initial draft. Thanks to Jens Reyer + for reporting the inconsistency. (Closes: #899125) + * d/changelog: Retroactively add Closes for LP bug #1766102 in 11.2 + release. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Correct control parser to permit zero or more leading + space after the "Section" field (instead of "exactly one" space). + * python_distutils.pm: Deprecate the python-distutils build system + and mark it as removed in compat 12. Users are recommended to + migrate to the third-party build system called "pybuild". This + deprecation implies that python3 (among other) will not be + supported in the python-distutils build system. + (Closes: #568033, #597105, #597342, #769840, #813686, #898347) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Remove warning for using "debhelper-compat" + build-dependency. + + [ Dmitry Shachnev ] + * qmake.pm: Use ${DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE}-qmake wrapper for + cross-compilation. (Closes: #895286) + + [ Helmut Grohne ] + * cmake: Pass CC/CXX environment variables down during native + compilation as well. (Closes: #897083) + + [ Chris Lamb ] + * dh_listpackages.1: Document that packages are listed in the + order that they appear in debian/control. + (Closes: #897949) + + [ Peter Pentchev ] + * Dh_Lib.pm: Permit leading and trailing whitespace around the + debhelper-compat dependency when it is the first or the last + relation listed. (Closes: #897937) + + [ Jakub Wilk ] + * dh_usrlocal: Fix invalid POD markup. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 20 May 2018 20:35:00 +0000 + +debhelper (11.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Buildsystem.pm: Correctly pass build directory values to + target buildsystems. Thanks to Helmut Grohne, Adrian Bunk + and Tobias Frost for the reports and debugging. + (Closes: #895174, #895181) + * Buildsystems: Avoid choosing a build system for the clean + step if it is not necessary. Previously, debhelper could + choose a "random" build system that would prefer building + in a separate build directory on the basis that the build + directory should be removed. With this, change we only + choose such a build system if there is a build directory + to remove. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 08 Apr 2018 08:47:35 +0000 + +debhelper (11.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * debhelper.7: Add a ~ to the suggested Build-Depends to ensure + backports also work for debhelper with single integer versions. + Thanks to Trent W. Buck for the suggestion. (Closes: #894666) + * makefile.pm: Use -Oline with make. This avoids make mistaking + a target name for a value for -O and should make build time + outs less likely for "long" targets. (Closes: #894573) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix bug that make debhelper trip on packages with + the version "0". Thanks to Chris Lamb for reporting the bug + plus debugging the issue. (Closes: #894895, LP: #1766102) + * Buildsystem.pm: Rewrite to support build systems that generate + build files for another build system (without using + inheritance). This enables generator build systems to have + multiple backends. + * cmake.pm: Support ninja as alternative backend (by using the + build system cmake+ninja). Thanks to Kyle Edwards for the + suggestion. (Closes: #895044) + * meson.pm: Rewrite as a generator build system with ninja as + the only backend. + * debhelper.7: Recommend packagers to use "debian/<pkg>.<file>" + over "debian/<file>" in most cases. Thanks to Johannes + Schauer for the suggestion. + * dh_usrlocal: Implement a simple guard for directories that + will likely cause issues in the shell snippets. + * dh_usrlocal: Use the new rules from Debian Policy 4.1.4 to + determine the default ownership and mode for directories. + * d/control: Bump Standards-Versions to 4.1.4. Beyond the + dh_usrlocal change listed above, no changes were required. + + [ Nicolas Boulenguez ] + * dh_installxfonts: Fix typo that causes a misc:Depends on + non-existing xfont-utils. (Closes: #894835) + * dh_installwm.1: Document --all. (Closes: #895011) + * dh_usrlocal: Fix bug where the generated prerm script generated + by dh_usrlocal could remove a directory directly in /usr/local. + (Closes: #894549) + + [ Mattia Rizzolo ] + * Lower the version restrictions on dpkg and dpkg-dev. They are not + needed anymore, as R³ support is not implied anymore, but requires + an environment variable to be passed. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 07 Apr 2018 19:23:32 +0000 + +debhelper (11.1.6) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Dh_Lib.pm: Avoid passing invalid parameters to a function, which + caused tons of "package ARRAY(...) is not in control info" + warnings from dh in some cases. It triggers when dh thinks + the package might have architecture qualified debhelper config + files. The warning is harmless (besides the noise) for all + native builds and most cross builds, but it did invalidate + attempt to make pkgfile() use "DEB_TARGET_ARCH{,_OS}" + (see 11.1.5~alpha1). Thanks to Andreas Beckmann for reporting + the issue. (Closes: #891546) + * dh: Refactor handling of sequences to simplify some code paths. + * autopkgtests: Remove "use-name" tests as it no longer works. + The debhelper module makes assumptions in which directory it is + run from and the test breaks these assumptions. + * debian/control: Comment out versioned dependency on make. + It is not strictly necessary for Debian and causes issues with + make-guile. On the other hand, it is useful for people + backporting debhelper on derivatives and hench leaving it as a + comment. (Closes: #892586) + * debian/control: Bump dependency on dh-autoreconf for the fix for + #889567. + * dh_installinfo: Accept --sourcedir like the documentation says + for compat 11. Previously the option was incorrectly silently + ignored. Thanks to Nicolas Boulenguez for the report and the + patch. (Closes: #894226) + * dh_ucf.1: Apply patch from Nicolas Boulenguez to add missing + documentation of the "--all" and non-option parameters. + (Closes: #894228) + * dh_installxfonts: Apply patch from Nicolas Boulenguez. This + ensures that the generated maintscript snippets are bit-for-bit + reproducible when a package ships xfonts in multiple fonts + directories. (Closes: #894227) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Improve the "make_symlink" code to avoid non-compliant + symlinks when the link name was not a normalized path. Note + that ".."-segments are now disallowed in the link name (but not + the link target). Thanks to Nicolas Boulenguez for reporting + the bug plus the test cases. (Closes: #894229) + * dh_installinfo: Report installed files to dh_missing. Thanks + to Daniel Kahn Gillmor for reporting this omission. + (Closes: #893160) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Make Dh_Lib loadable again without a debian/control being + present. This makes the autopkgtests work again. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Thu, 29 Mar 2018 19:26:59 +0000 + +debhelper (11.1.5) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Upload to unstable. + * Add a warning for using the new experimental feature for + requesting the compat level via the Build-Depends field. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 25 Feb 2018 10:05:22 +0000 + +debhelper (11.1.5~alpha1) experimental; urgency=medium + + * dh_installdocs: Add missing documentation about --sourcedir + in compat 11. + * dh_installdocs: Document that d/tmp is used by default + in compat 11. + * dh_installexamples: Ditto. + * dh_installinfo: Ditto. + * dh_installman: Ditto. + * meson.pm: Apply patch from Jakub Wilk to fix typo in the name + of the "C.UTF-8" locale. + * autoscripts/postinst-systemd-restart: Apply patch from + Christoph Biedl to fix indentation. (Closes: #890373) + * dh_testroot: With the advent of DEB_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT, it + no longer needs to read debian/control to tell whether root + is needed or not. However, the warning remains for calling + dh_testroot outside the source root (as we may need to check + the compat level in a future version of debhelper). + * makefile.pm: Synchronize output from make (via -O) when + make runs in parallel except when STDOUT is a TTY. Thanks + to Goswin von Brederlow for the suggestion. (Closes: #768791) + * dh_gencontrol: Avoid uninitialized value warning when there + are no build-ids (e.g. because the builder disabled the + dbgsym building via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS). This regression + was introduced in 11.1. Thanks to Christian Marillat for + reporting the bug. (Closes: #890736) + * Dh_Lib.pm: pkgfile() now properly uses for DEB_TARGET_ARCH{,_OS} + when the package is set to be built for the target + architecture. + * d/control: Drop dependency on binutils; it does not reflect + our actual requirement and the package or builder will ensure + that the current binutils is installed for other reasons + any way. Thanks to Helmut Grohne for the report. + (Closes: #891187) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Add an experimental feature to determine the requested + compat level from the Build-Depends field. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:01:31 +0000 + +debhelper (11.1.4) unstable; urgency=medium + + * qmake.pm,qmake_qt4.pm: Avoid global state in the build systems. + * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --no-act, which could still cause writes + to the shlibs file. Thanks to Sven Joachim for reporting it. + (Closes: #888974) + * dh_installdocs: Discard auto-detected main doc package when + passed -A/--all as it causes file-conflicts. + (Closes: #886108, #888294) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix regression where "foo{bar}" would not be matched + when the pattern was handled as a glob. The bug was + introduced in debhelper/10.6. Thanks to Wouter Verhelst for + finding the bug. (Closes: #888251) + * d/control: Update the Vcs-* fields to point to + salsa.debian.org as a part of the migration from alioth. + * d/control: Update maintainer address debhelper@packages.d.o + as a part of the migration from alioth. Any subscription + to debhelper-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org should be + replaced by a subscription in tracker.debian.org or + salsa.debian.org. + * d/control: Remove Bernhard R. Link from uploaders as he does + not appear to be active in debhelper at the moment. Thanks + to Bernhard for his past contributions. + * d/control: Bump (Build-)Dependency on dpkg to ensure that + dpkg provides DEB_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT and DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD + as a part of its Rules-Requires-Root support. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Rely on DEB_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT instead of the + field to determine whether or not tools may "root-only" + actions (such as chown'ing). + * d/control: Bump dependency on dh-autoreconf to ensure that + packages do not experience #887482. + * makefile.pm: Ensure that command line arguments are passed + deterministically to make when cross-compiling. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Wed, 31 Jan 2018 21:36:13 +0000 + +debhelper (11.1.3) unstable; urgency=medium + + * autoscripts/*: Improve rollback handling of many scripts. + Notably a lot of scripts failed to rerun the postinst parts + on an "abort-upgrade". (Closes: #446856) + * debian/control: Add a Breaks on meson to ensure that we have + meson (>= 0.40.0) as the meson build system uses --wrap-mode. + This is mostly relevant for backports. + * Dh_Lib.pm: When printing commands (e.g. for doit), also show + changes to the environment (when done as a part of the + command). + * ninja.pm: Set LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 when calling ninja to avoid + meson choking on UTF-8 characters when it embeds itself into + e.g. the build or install. (Closes: #873831) + * dh: Remove the assumption that sequences will supply only + "safe no-op" parameters to commands. Thanks to Axel Beckert + and Sascha Steinbiss for the report. (Closes: #887727) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 20 Jan 2018 18:26:06 +0000 + +debhelper (11.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh: Fix non-sense error about a missing "startpoint object + method". + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:31:40 +0000 + +debhelper (11.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh: Fix an off-by-one in a compat check. This fixes an + internal error for compat 9 packages that requires dh to + recurse into the debian/rules file. Thanks to Helmut + Grohne for reporting the bug. (Closes: #886518) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 07 Jan 2018 09:48:17 +0000 + +debhelper (11.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Paul Tagliamonte ] + * dh: Provide the DH_EXTRA_ADDONS environment as a method for + e.g. derivatives to enable additional debhelper add-ons. + It is *not* a replacement for the --with parameter (which + package maintainers should still use). (Closes: #570935) + + [ Hideki Yamane ] + * Fix typo of unnecessary. (Closes: #884574) + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_missing: Support wildcards in debian/not-installed. Thanks + to Maximiliano Curia for the suggestion. (Closes: #884556) + * dh_missing: Tweak handling of missing source directory and + single binary packages. + * dh_missing: Make --list-missing the default in compat 12. + Thanks to Daniel Leidert and Christian Göttsche for the + suggestions. (Closes: #650129, #858834) + * meson.pm: Set LC_ALL to C.UTF-8 when invoking meson and + debcrossgen (helper tool for cross-building). Thanks to + Jeremy Bicha for the suggestion. (Closes: #873831) + * dh_makeshlibs: Avoid forking a shell per line in the + generated shlibs file. + * dh_makeshlibs: Find all libraries with an unversioned SONAME + field (and not just the unversioned ones containing ".so"). + * dh_makeshlibs: In compat 12, stop passing ELF binaries without + a SONAME to dpkg-gensymbols. Thanks to Steve Langasek for the + report. (Closes: #653640) + * dh_compress: In compat 12, stop compressing any thing in + /usr/share/doc/$pkg/examples. Thanks to Piotr Ożarowski for + the suggestion. (Closes: #593382) + * dh_installinit: Support a new --no-enable parameter to setup the + init script with the "defaults-disabled" and add the proper + versioned dependency on "init-system-helpers (>= 1.51)", which is + the first (functional) version with support for + "defaults-disabled". Thanks to Laurent Bigonville for the + report and Evgeni Golov for filing #857452. (Closes: #709384) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Make "exit 1" the default error-handler instead of + "exit $?" as this makes it easier to migrate from sed-based + autoscript substitutions to the new hash-based ones. + * autoscripts/*systemd*: Also use "|| true" in removal scripts for + systemd related tools if we do it in other scripts for the same + command. Thanks to Laurent Bigonville for the report. + (Closes: #761272) + * dh_installinit: Perform the autoscript substitutions without + needing a shell. + * dh_clean: Skip cleaning in the '.pc' and '_darcs' directories. + (Closes: #566861) + * dh_strip: Do not strip debug symbols in ".../debug/.build-id/". + Thanks to Mattia Rizzolo for reporting the bug. + (Closes: #886037) + * dh_gencontrol: Deduplicate debug-ids before inserting them into + the control file. Thanks to Mattia Rizzolo for reporting the + bug. (Closes: #886038) + * dh: Rewrite sequence handling to ensure that dh does not "inline" + a subtarget of a target it recurses into. Thanks to James + Cowgill for reporting the bug. (Closes: #880840) + * d/control: Add a Breaks against cmake (<< 3.8~) to ensure that + cmake response to the /run change in compat 11. Thanks to + Adrian Bunk for the suggestion. (Closes: #886127) + * Dh_Lib.pm/dh_testroot: Support the DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD environment + that replaces DPKG_GAIN_ROOT_CMD. + * dh_installinit/dh_installsystemd: Re-order snippets so service + handling is always the first to happen in removal scripts and last + to happen on install scripts. This means that configuration file + management and systemd-tmpfiles handling will now always happen + before the service is started on install/upgrade. Thanks to + Дилян Палаузов and Simon McVittie for reporting the bug. + (Closes: #814285, #885998) + - Note that the deprecated dh_systemd_enable and dh_systemd_start + helpers have not been changed. Services handled by these may + still be started before configuration management happens. + * debian/control: Drop some very old versioned constraints that are + no longer important. + * dh_installsystemd: Fix NOOP PROMISE to account for the tmpfiles.d + files. + * debian/control: Bump Standards-Versions to 4.1.3 - no additional + changes required. + + [ Translations ] + * Update French translation (Baptiste Jammet) (Closes: #886279) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 06 Jan 2018 21:17:47 +0000 + +debhelper (11) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_installdeb: Do basic validation of rm_conffile and mv_conffile + parameters in "maintscript" parameters in compat 10 and newer. + In compat 12, this is an error. Thanks to Andreas Beckmann for + the suggestions. (Closes: #882626) + * dh_strip: Fix bug where the Build-Id field would not be properly + filled when using --dbg-package. Thanks to Paul Wise for finding + and reporting the bug. (Closes: #884152) + * d/control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.2 - no changes required. + * dh_installsystemd: Remove neutering of dh_installsystemd in compat + levels prior to 11 now that compat 11 is stable. + + [ Chris Leick ] + * debhelper.pod: Improve the wording of two paragraphs. + + [ Translations ] + * Update Portuguese translation (Américo Monteiro) + (Closes: #883635) + * Update German translation (Chris Leick) (Closes: #884205) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 16 Dec 2017 15:41:17 +0000 + +debhelper (10.10.9) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Dmitry Shachnev ] + * qmake.pm: Add missing import of generated_file. + * meson.pm: Find typo of meson in the name of the cross config + file. + * qmake.pm: Push compiler information as ‘early’ flags to qmake, to + make sure qmake calls the right compiler to get library paths. + * qmake.pm: Add all possible settings to generated qmake-cross.conf. + Now output of ‘qmake -query’ with and without using this file is + identical. This makes cross-building Qt’s own modules possible. + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_missing: Permit a missing debian/tmp without failing in + compat 11 when debian/tmp is an implicit source directory. + Thanks to Christoph Biedl for reporting the bug. + (Closes: #882083) + * dh_missing: Improve the wording about "debian/not-installed". + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:04:45 +0000 + +debhelper (10.10.8) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * Document that compat 11 is now in its open beta phase. + * Dh_Getopt.pm: Improve warning message when a package is excluded + due to profiles or architecture restrictions. + * dh_install: Properly allow patterns to be excluded without + complaining about missing files. (Closes: #881658) + * qmake.pm: Ensure that the qmake cross-build config file + survives until clean. + + [ Dmitry Shachnev ] + * qmake.pm: Set QMAKE_LINK correctly for cross-builds. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:46:00 +0000 + +debhelper (10.10.7) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_strip: Fix a regression that caused debug symbols for + executables to be discarded instead of included into + debug packages. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Ensure that $dh{U_PARAMS} is always defined as a + list. Thanks to Adrian Bunk for the bug report. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 11 Nov 2017 14:10:21 +0000 + +debhelper (10.10.6) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Axel Beckert ] + * Cleanup trailing whitespace in ancient debian/changelog entries and + debian/rules. + * Fix typo "belive" in debian/copyright and ancient debian/changelog + entries. + * Use HTTPS in debian/copyright format URL. + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * Remove support for named compat levels. + * dh_perl: Make dh_perl faster on packages with large doc + directories by pruning the entire doc directory. + * dh,dh_auto_*: Support skipping all of the dh_auto_* helpers if the + package does not seem to have a build system (and there are no build + system related options passed to dh). + * Dh_Lib.pm: Define a (hardcoded) extension for dbgsym packages. + * dh_gencontrol: Pass -DPackage-Type to dpkg-gencontrol when the + package type for dbgsym is different than for regular deb packages. + * dh_builddeb: Automatically handle renaming of dbgsym packages when + the extension of the dbgsym packages are different than for regular + deb packages. + * dh_installsystemd,dh_systemd_start: Use "restart" instead of the + "try-restart" action. This ensures that newly added services are + started the first time they are installed. (Closes: #879727, + LP: #1707880) + * dh_install: Fix regression where it was no longer possible to + exclude an entire pattern / source file. Thanks to James Cowgill + for the report. (Closes: #814856, LP: #1554979) + * dh_installsystemd: Permit missing explicitly requested file in + package as long as another on being acted on ships it. + * dh_installsystemd: Optimize the search for files installed in the + tmpfiles.d directories to only look in the tmpfiles.d directories. + * Add experimental support for building some packages for "TARGET" + rather than "HOST" via the X-DH-Build-For-Type field. The field + is subject to removal and changes without notice. The field is + not considered by dpkg tooling and therefore you will still have + to manually work around tools like dpkg-gencontrol (even when + called via dh_gencontrol). + * dh_makeshlibs: Ignore non-ELF files even if they are named ".so". + (Closes: #880480) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Improve the performance of isnative by using + Dpkg::Changelog::Parse instead of calling dpkg-parsechangelog as + an external process. This improves the performance of + dh_installchangelogs by ~10%. + + [ Felipe Sateler ] + * dh_installsystemd: Fix a bug where dh_installsystemd would generate + invalid maintscript, when there were no units to start or enable. + Thanks to Ben Hutchings and Bastian Blank for the bug report. + (Closes: #881190) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 11 Nov 2017 11:18:11 +0000 + +debhelper (10.10.5) unstable; urgency=medium + + * meson.pm: Add missing import of generated_file that broke + cross building. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix regression where an empty line before the source + paragraph in d/control would cause parse error. + (Closes: #879762) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Thu, 26 Oct 2017 19:10:51 +0000 + +debhelper (10.10.4) unstable; urgency=medium + + * meson.pm: Keep the meson cross file until dh_clean is + called as otherwise ninja tries and fails to regenerate the + build rules. Thanks to Helmut Grohne for reporting the + bug. (Closes: #879658) + * dh_dwz: Add new experimental tool to run dwz(1) to deduplicate + ELF debugging symbols. It should be generally be run before + dh_strip (as dh_strip compresses the debug symbols and dwz + expects uncompressed debug symbols). (Closes: #878888) + * dwz.pm: New sequence to add dh_dwz to the sequence. + * d/control: Add a Suggests on dwz for the optional dh_dwz tool. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix regression where the source section would not + be parsed leading to dbgsym packages possibly getting an + incorrect value in the Section field. Thanks to Mihai + Moldovan for reporting the issue. (Closes: #879667) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Wed, 25 Oct 2017 06:00:13 +0000 + +debhelper (10.10.3) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_strip: Skip the entire directory when an exclude rule + parameter matches it. + * dh_fixperms: Improve the documentation to assume less familiarity + with "Rules-Requires-Root" (R³). + * dh_usrlocal: Ditto. + * dh_builddeb: Ditto. + * dh_usrlocal: Correct the group name when creating directories + owned by "root:staff". Thanks to Paul Gevers for reporting + the bug. (Closes: #879643) + * dh_usrlocal: Fix inverted boolean logic that made dh_usrlocal + ignore ownership of directories when it should have preserved + them. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Mon, 23 Oct 2017 21:24:08 +0000 + +debhelper (10.10.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix uninitialized warning in find_hardlinks that + broke dh_compress's ability to deal with hardlinks. Thanks + to Ondřej Surý for finding the bug. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 22 Oct 2017 21:21:58 +0000 + +debhelper (10.10.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * debhelper.pod: Document that all tools by default must be run + in the root of an unpacked source. + * dh: Clarify that --list can be run anywhere. + * dh_testroot: Temporarily cope with being run outside a source + root. (Closes: #879478) + * dh_testroot: Update manpage to mention its new scope. + * d/control: Bump (build-)dependency on dpkg to 1.19.0.3~. That + was technically necessary already in the previous upload. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 22 Oct 2017 09:00:12 +0000 + +debhelper (10.10) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installsystemd: Improve error messages to include the actual + error caused by attempted to open the file. + * dh_systemd_enable: Ditto. + * dh_systemd_start: Ditto. + * dh_installinit: In compat 12, error out if an upstart init file + is provided with a reminder message about how to remove the + obsolete conffile. (Closes: #876453) + * dh_systemd_enable: Permit missing explicitly requested file in + package as long as another on being acted on ships it. + (Closes: #878911) + * dh_systemd_start: Ditto. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Add support for R³ (Rules-Requires-Root field) to + enable package builds without requiring root (or only + selectively require root). + * dh_fixperms: Skip "chown" calls when R³ is set to anything but + "binary-targets". + * dh_installchangelogs: Ditto. + * dh_installdocs: Ditto. + * dh_testroot: Update check for root to support R³. + * makefile.pm: Call "make install" with DPKG_GAIN_ROOT_CMD when + R³ contains the "debhelper/upstream-make-install" keyword. + * dh_builddeb: Pass --root-owner-group to dpkg-deb in packages + with R³ (except for "binary-targets"). + * dh_usrlocal: When R³ is enabled (and not "binary-targets"), + ignore the ownership/mode information on the directories. + Instead, the ownership "root:staff" and the mode 02775 is used. + * d/control: Bump (Build-)Dependency on dpkg-dev to support to + support R³. + * d/control: Set R³ to "no". + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 21 Oct 2017 17:59:46 +0000 + +debhelper (10.9.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_install: Defer the removal of --list-missing and + --fail-missing until compat 12. + * dh: Run the new dh_installsystemd helper by default in compat 11. + * systemd.pm: Remove the sequence in compat 11. It has been replaced + by the new dh_installsystemd helper. + + [ Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer ] + * qmake.pm: Remove unnecessary "-nocache" parameter. + (Closes: #878427, LP: #1206234) + + [ Ville Skyttä ] + * Fix a number of spelling mistakes. (Closes: #878325) + + [ Felipe Sateler ] + * dh_installsystemd: New command (currently noop except when used in + the experimental compat 11). This new helper: + - Generates postinst code for tmpfiles (now that dh_installinit + does not). + - Follows the naming convention for other built-in dh_* commands. + - Replaces dh_systemd_enable and dh_systemd_start in compat 11 + and later. + - Only acts on units with the name specified by "--name" when this + option is given. + (Closes: #752521, #857306, #870768, #876486) + * dh_systemd_enable: Remove as obsolete in compat 11. + * dh_systemd_start: Ditto. + + [ Helmut Grohne ] + * cmake.pm: Also supply PKGCONFIG_EXECUTABLE for obsolete + UsePkgConfig.cmake. (Closes: #878460) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 14 Oct 2017 07:19:38 +0000 + +debhelper (10.9.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_builddeb: Add some missing error checks. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix bug where debhelper could discard some error + messages during parsing when -O options were passed via + DH_OPTIONS (among other). Thanks to Adrian Bunk and + Andrew Shadura for reporting the issue. (Closes: #876689) + * Dh_Getopt.pm: Gracefully reduce the tool to a no-op when given + a -p<pkg> and <pkg> is disabled by a Build-Profile. + * debhelper.7: Document how package selections interact with + Build-Profiles. Thanks to Helmut Grohne for the report. + (Closes: #872745) + * dh_installdocs: Validate that the package passed to + --doc-main-package are listed in debian/control. + * dh_installexamples: Ditto. + * dh_systemd_start: Regex escape two paths used in a regex. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Open compat 12. + * dh_clean: Defer making -k an error until compat 12. + * Dh_Getopt.pm: Defer making -s an error until compat 12. + * dh_installinit: Defer making --no-restart-on-upgrade an error + until compat 12. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Defer making the "shell-spawning bug" in doit an error + until compat 12. + * dh_systemd_enable: Fix regression in debhelper/10.9 where + template units would be installed as regular units (and + possibly replace regular units). (Closes: #877989) + * dh_systemd_enable: Drop versioned dependency on + init-system-helpers that is satisfied in oldstable. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix regression where --no-act would actually create + maintscript snippets. + * dh_systemd_*: If an unit file cannot be read (e.g. to check for + the [Install] section), error out instead of emitting a warning + and continuing. + * t: Add tests for dh_systemd_* based on WIP tests from Felipe + Sateler related to a new dh_installsystemd helper. + * dh_systemd_enable: Properly quote unit names to preserve + escaped names like "\x2d". Thanks to Bernd Zeimetz for + reporting the issue. (Closes: #764730) + * dh_systemd_start: Ditto. + * meson.pm: Add prototype support for cross building by relying + on /usr/share/meson/debcrossgen. Note that this is currently + not functional due to #875703. + * debian/control: Bump Standards-Versions to 4.1.1 - No changes + required. + + [ Dmitry Shachnev ] + * qmake.pm: Add basic cross-building support. (Closes: #877357) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:01:00 +0000 + +debhelper (10.9) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. + * dh_fixperms: Reset permissions of .scss and .sass files to + 0644. Thanks to Jonas Smedegaard for the suggestion. + (Closes: #875586) + * dh_shlibdeps: Disable unused file(1) tests. + * dh_strip: In compat 11, rely on file headers/magic to + determine whether files are ELF binaries worth processing + instead of using filenames/extensions. (Closes: #35733) + * dh_shlibdeps: Ditto. + * d/control: Bump Standards-Versions to 4.1.0: + - Bump priority of dh-systemd to "optional". + * dh_makeshlibs: Avoid gratuitous warning about a non-existing + directory, when the packaging directory does not exist. + (Closes: #626685) + * dh_gencontrol: Ensure that dbgsym packages do not inherit the + "Important" field. + * dh_installinfo: Merge two chmod calls into one to save a + fork+exec. + * dh_builddeb: Use -z6 compression for udebs (up from -z1). + Thanks to Adrian Bunk for the suggestion and Aurelien Jarno + for confirming it would be fine for d-i. (Closes: #870201) + * dh_fixperms: Set the permissions of /usr/lib/nodejs/*/{cli,bin}.js + to 0755. Thanks to Pirate Praveen for the report. + (Closes: #840913) + * Dh_lib.pm: Expand *_doit and doit to also support a chdir in the + child process. + * Dh_Getopt.pm: Validate package names passed via -p and -N to ensure + they are present in d/control. Thanks to Matthias Klose for the + report. (Closes: #795432) + * debhelper.7: Fix typo of compatibility. + + [ Felipe Sateler ] + * dh_systemd_enable: Refactor and add support for timer units. + (Closes: #841746) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:49:57 +0000 + +debhelper (10.8) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * Dh_Lib.pm: Introduce a qx_cmd sub to behave like a mix of qx + and doit (i.e. avoid the shell while capturing stdout). + * dh_makeshlibs: Avoid forking a shell when calling objdump in + compat 11. + * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid forking a shell when calling file. + * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid passing files with "newline" to + subprocesses. + * dh_installdocs: Ignore missing files in compat 11 for packages + that are not processed (e.g. arch:all packages during a -B build). + Thanks to Jens Reyer for reporting the issue. (Closes: #870892) + * dh_installexamples: Ditto. + * dh_installinfo: Ditto. + * dh_installman: Ditto. + * dh_compress: Avoid forking a shell for a find command. + * dh_gconf: Ditto. + * dh_installgsettings: Ditto. + * dh_perl: Avoid forking a shell for a dpkg call. + * dh_gencontrol: Set the priority of all dbgsym packages to + optional to be compliant with Standards-Version 4.0.1. + Thanks to Mattia Rizzolo for the report. (Closes: #870905) + * dh_installdocs: Accept "nodoc" via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS as well. + Thanks to Sébastien Villemot for the suggestion. + (Closes: #866619) + * dh_installexamples: Ditto. + * dh_installinfo: Ditto. + * dh_installman: Ditto. + * dh_installwm: Ditto. + * debhelper.pod: Tweak text for some compat 11 changes. + * dh_installdeb: Stop emitting versioned Pre-Depends on dpkg for + symlink_to_dir and dir_to_symlink maintscripts. The version + requirements are satisfied in oldoldstable. + * dh_installdocs: Merge two chmod calls to save a fork+exec. + * dh_strip: Disable parallelism when --dbg-package is used as it + causes non-deterministic failures in some cases. Thanks to + Helmut Grohne for reporting the issue. (Closes: #872007) + * dh_installdocs: Auto-detect "main package" for documentation + packages in compat 11 to assist with Debian policy §12.3. This + auto-detection can be overruled with the new --doc-main-package. + (Closes: #824221) + * dh_installexamples: Ditto. + * dh_update_autotools_config: Improve detection to also catch very + old versions of config.{guess,sub} that do not have the + "timestamp" variable. Thanks to Guillem Jover for reporting the + bug. (Closes: #872510) + + [ Adam Conrad ] + * dh_gencontrol: Change the synopsis of dbgsym packages so it + follows best practises. (Closes: #872274) + + [ Geoffrey Thomas ] + * Support building debhelper on case-insensitive filesystems by + moving the Debian (perl package) to the lib subdirectory. + (Closes: #873043) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 09 Sep 2017 15:07:38 +0000 + +debhelper (10.7.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix inverted boolean logic that causes a + compatibility rule to be ignored. Thanks to Adrian Bunk, + Andreas Beckmann, Markus Koschany and Emmanuel Bourg for + reporting and analysing the issue. (Closes: #870339) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Tue, 01 Aug 2017 16:51:58 +0000 + +debhelper (10.7.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix doit's new call to ensure it does not call a shell + (like the documentation promises). + * dh: Ensure that we do not fork a shell for running a simple + command. + * autoconf: Revert expansion of ${var} variables passed to + configure as several packages implicitly assume that are not + expanded. E.g. liblockfile relies on ${prefix} being + unexpanded for DESTDIR to work. Reopens: #813266 + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 19:00:45 +0000 + +debhelper (10.7) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_usrlocal: Fix call to doit to avoid making it fork a shell. + * autoconf.pm: Ditto. + * cmake.pm: Ditto. + * meson.pm: Ditto. + * dh_installmodules: Ensure maintscripts are reproducible even with + multiple kernel versions detected. + * Apply patches from gregor herrmann to improve autopkgtests. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Introduce a print_and_complex_doit. + * Buildsystem: Introduce a complex_doit_in_builddir, which is needed + by gradle-debian-helper. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix bug in doit + doit_* that made them fork a shell in + some cases. For backwards compatibility, there is detection code + that should make it warn for this case and retain bug-compatibility. + This can cause a weird "Please specify the compatibility level in + debian/compat" error if the tools have chdir to a different directory. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Support an optional hashref in doit + doit_* to enable some + trivial operations in the child process (e.g. redirect stdout). + * dh_installman: Avoid forking a shell where a simple subprocess call + is sufficient. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Avoid forking 2 to 7 subprocesses for adding an autosnippet + when helper tools use a subroutine rather then a sed snippet. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Extend autoscript to accept a hashref and use that for + substituting into the snippet. This variant (like the subroutine + variant) avoids forking a lot of subprocesses and need not worry + about a shell possibly interpreting metacharacters. + * dh_installman: Pass "-l" to man when recoding the manpages. + * dh_icons: Use hashref based autoscripts generation. + * dh_installcatalogs: Ditto. + * dh_installemacsen: Ditto. + * dh_installmenu: Ditto. + * dh_installmodules: Ditto. + * dh_installwm: Ditto. + * dh_installxfonts: Ditto. + * dh_systemd_enable: Ditto. + * dh_systemd_start: Ditto. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Reduce the use of shell and external commands for + generating the final maintscripts. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Make getpackages without any arguments return all + packages as the documentation promises it should. Previously, + it would hide packages not built (e.g. due to Build-Profiles). + * Dh_Lib.pm: Provide a better error message when getpackages() is called + by a helper in the wrong directory. Unfortunately, dh cannot rely + on dh_testdir to do this as dh_testdir is called too late. + * dh: optimize out the call to dh_testdir. It is useless for + printing a helpful error message when called by dh. + * dh_installdocs: Apply patch from Sven Joachim to revert an + incorrect regression "fix". Thanks to Adrian Bunk for + reporting the issue. (Closes: #868649) + * dh_installexamples: Ditto. + * dh_installinfo: Ditto. + * dh_installman: Ditto. + * dh_gencontrol: Rewrite code that ensures that misc:Depends and + misc:Pre-Depends are present to avoid relying external processes + for this. + * dh_builddeb: Let dpkg-deb choose the default compression level for + dbgsym packages instead of using xz -1e. The current default (xz -6) + is likely to be a better default value for dbgsym packages. Thanks to + Adrian Bunk for the suggestion. (Closes: #868674) + * cmake.pm: Pass -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RUNSTATEDIR=/run to cmake in compat 11. + Thanks to Felix Geyer for the suggestion. (Closes: #869697) + * cmake.pm: Avoid using the user specific cmake package registry. Thanks + to Christian Seiler and Felix Geyer. (Closes: #868584) + + [ Colin Watson ] + * Quote assignment to $recommended_compat in case it isn't a valid Perl + version string (e.g. for Debian derivatives). Fix typos that caused it + not to be used correctly. Use the /g flag so that all instances of the + substitution variable are handled. (Closes: #869780) + + [ Isaac Jurado ] + * Make the autoconf buildsystem expand "${var}" values send to configure + (e.g. pass --mandir=/usr/share/man instead of --mandir=${prefix}/share/man). + (Closes: #813266) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 29 Jul 2017 18:00:24 +0000 + +debhelper (10.6.4) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installmenu: Revert "Stop installing menu files in compat 11 + (menu-methods are still installed)". + * dh: Revert "--without=build-stamp by default in compat 11". Keep + the compat 10 behaviour while enable packages to opt-in by + explicitly passing --without=build-stamp themselves. + * dh_installman: Apply patch from Sven Joachim to fix regression, + where dh_installman would fail to remove the compressed manpage. + With hardlinks involved, this could make dh_compress fail later. + (Closes: #867846) + * Dh_lib.pm: Rewrite reset_perm_and_owner to it does chmod + chown + using perl built-ins rather than forking+exec. + * dh_compress: Apply patch from Sven Joachim to make dh_compress + gracefully handle hardlinks, where the target files already + exists. (Closes: #867881) + * dh_install: Re-instate bug compatibility with debhelper (<< 10.6) + where (some) path arguments where split on space as if it had + been parsed in the config file. (Closes: #867866) + * dh_installdocs: Ditto. + * dh_installexamples: Ditto. + * dh_installinfo: Ditto. + * dh_installman: Ditto. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix a regression in handling of dangling symlinks for + native file copying that caused dh_installdocs to no longer replace + dangling symlinks with real files. Thanks to Stéphane Glondu + for the report. (Closes: #868204) + * dh_install: Silently disable bulk optimization when two source paths + have the same destination. Thanks to Gianfranco Costamagna for + reporting the regression. (Closes: #868169) + * d/control: Set Testsuite to autopkgtest-pkg-perl to enable + autopkgtests. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:49:46 +0000 + +debhelper (10.6.3) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Makefile: Use "dpkg-parsechangelog -S" rather than + "dpkg-parsechangelog | grep". + * debhelper.pod: Use substitution to ensure examples always use the + recommended compatibility level. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Embed tool versions into autoscripts so lintian can + extract and display them. Tools that want to rely on this + feature should set "$main::VERSION" to the version of the tool. + * dh_install: Rewrite and re-enable optimization so it + deterministically and gracefully handles cases like #866405. + * dh: Support new "pkgfile-logged" hint, which can be used by + helpers that log what files they install. It enables dh to + see that it may need to run a helper that would install no + files, but log what it would have done to avoid making + dh_missing complain. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for + reporting the issue and testing the fix. (Closes: #867246) + * PROGRAMMING: Document how to write "logging" helpers that work + with dh_missing. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 09 Jul 2017 08:24:34 +0000 + +debhelper (10.6.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Refactor test suite and support running tests in parallel. + * Add a test case for #866570. + * dh_compress: Apply patch from Sven Joachim to fix a + regression in 10.5.1. (Closes: #866713) + * dh_installman: Fix regression introduced in 10.5.1 that + caused a "file not found" error when using -P with an + absolute argument. Thanks to Adrian Bunk for reporting + it over IRC. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Wed, 05 Jul 2017 08:40:00 +0000 + +debhelper (10.6.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Makefile: Enable running some tasks in parallel to better + utilize multiple cores. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Revert a change that caused dh_install (and other + tools) to take filenames as absolute if they started with + a leading slash. Thanks to Sven Joachim for the prompt + discovery and notification. (Closes: #866570) + * dh_install: Make optimization conditional on compat 11 + for now. (Closes: #866405) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Fri, 30 Jun 2017 06:50:10 +0000 + +debhelper (10.6) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installinfo: Use "xargs" so it works even if there are + "a lot" of info files. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Introduce a is_build_profile_active function, which + can be used to check if a given Build-Profile was specified. + * dh_installdocs: Ignore given documentation files when the + "nodoc" build profile is specified in DEB_BUILD_PROFILES. + Note that dh_installdocs is not a complete noop in this case + as it still ensures the package has a copyright file (or a + symlinked doc directory). (Closes: #865869) + * dh_installman: Fix regression in compat 5 that could make it + ignore one manpage per invocation. + * dh_installdocs: Warn if a pattern in the config file matches + nothing. In compat 11, this becomes a hard error. + * dh_installexamples: Ditto. + * dh_installinfo: Ditto. + * dh_installman: Ditto. + * dh_installexamples: Support missing documentation under the nodoc + profile. + * dh_installinfo: Ditto. + * dh_installman: Ditto. + * dh_installwm: Ditto. (Closes: #865707) + * dh_installdocs: Log installed files so dh_missing can see them. + * dh_installexamples: Ditto. (Closes: #863456) + * dh_installinfo: Ditto. + * dh_installdocs: In compat 11, automatically fall back to debian/tmp + if the files are not found in ".". Furthermore, accept the option + --sourcedir with the same meaning as dh_install. + * dh_installexamples: Ditto. + * dh_installinfo: Ditto. + * dh_installman: Ditto. + * dh_installman: Fix bug in how it handled language auto-detection in + compat 11. Previously, it did not work as intended. + * dh_installdocs: Revert change in compat 11, where it would install + documentation into /usr/share/doc/mainpackage. (Reopens: #824221) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Stop setting PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC in compat 11. + * perl_build.pm: Stop passing -I. to perl in compat 11. + * perl_makemaker.pm: Ditto. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:15:00 +0000 + +debhelper (10.5.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix rounding error when computing how many processes + to use. This rounding error could cause dh-tools to use one more + process than permitted by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Check return value of open+close when creating a log of + installed files. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Implement subroutines to facility file removal and + symlink creation without a fork+exec. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Avoid a fork+exec for rm -f and ln -s. + * dh_compress: Ditto. + * dh_installman: Ditto. + * dh_clean: Avoid a fork+exec for rm -f. + * dh_installdeb: Ditto. + * dh_makeshlibs: Ditto. + * dh_md5sums: Ditto. + * dh_installdocs: Avoid a fork+exec for ln -s. + * dh_strip: Ditto. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Avoid 1-2 stat calls in make_symlink by reusing existing + stat calls. + * dh_installman: Avoid a fork+exec for renaming a path. + * dh_installdocs: Avoid unnecessary stat call. + * dh_installman: Ditto. + * dh_strip: Ditto. + * dh_shlibdeps: Fix a regression where non-detached debug symbol files + where not properly processed. Thanks to Sven Joachim for reporting + the issue. (Closes: #865982) + * dh_installman: When re-encoding manpages, use the actual manpages as + tasks to split rather than packages. This provides a much better + performance if the manpages are unevenly split between the packages. + * dh_install: Optimize some patterns into bulked "cp" calls. This + optimization is only applicable in some cases (notably, it is always + disabled by --exclude). + * dh_builddeb: Account for dbgsym packages separately when determining + how many tasks can be run in parallel. + * dh_strip: Process packages in parallel. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Mon, 26 Jun 2017 17:25:00 +0000 + +debhelper (10.5) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Upload to unstable. (Closes: #865363) + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_installman: Remove unnecessary "chown" call that made things a + lot slower. Thanks to Kurt Roeckx for reporting it. + * dh_installman: Fix wrong permission of man pages (set 0755 instead + of 0644). Regression introduced in 10.2.2. + * dh_installman: Batch chmod calls to reduce the overhead for + packages with many manpages. + * dh: Undo an unsafe optimisation that caused "-indep" and "-arch" + override targets to be ignored. Thanks to Gianfranco Costamagna + for reporting it and Iain Lane for tracing it to the commit + that introduced the issue. (Closes: #863887) + * dh_clean, dh_prep: Bulk delete most files and directories, which + gives a noticeable speed up for source packages building many + binary packages. + * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid creating debian/<pkg>/DEBIAN directory if it + is not needed. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix typo in error message. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Rewrite install_* to use File::Copy to avoid the + overhead of a fork+exec per file. For simplicity, the verbose + output still claim debhelper uses "install -p -m <mode>" for this. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Replace most of the fork+exec calls to mv for simple + file renames. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Add sub to make common dh_* tools do their thing in + parallel with very little coding effort. This parallel support + accounts for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to set the upper limit. + * dh_fixperms: Run package updates in parallel if DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS + permits it. + * dh_installchangelogs: Ditto. + * dh_compress: Ditto. + * dh_installman: Ditto. + * dh_genchanges: Ditto. + * dh_shlibdeps: Ditto. + * dh_md5sums: Ditto. + * dh_builddeb: Rewrite the hand-written parallel code to use the new + simpler way of doing it. + * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid calling file(1) on debug symbols. + * SUPPORT-POLICY: Include new document that describes the current + support policy of debhelper compat levels. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Pass ":unix" layer when using the ":gzip" layer due to + PerlIO-gzip bug RT#114557. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Ignore empty dpkg-architecture variables. + (Closes: #862844) + * dh_installchangelogs: Avoid trying to install a directory by default + as a changelog file. Thanks to Markus Koschany for reporting the + issue. (Closes: #861852) + * dh_installwm.1: Correct documentation to reflect the behaviour in + compat 10. Thanks to Robert Luberda for reporting the issue. + (Closes: #865708) + * dh_installcatalogs: Use explicit await triggers to avoid trigger + a lintian warning. + * dh_installman: In compat 11, attempt to detect the language of the + manpage based on the directory (/man/<LANG>/manX/) before using the + extension. This is more reliably for packages using dh_installman + to install manpages from the temporary install dir. + (Closes: #761024) + * dh_installcatalogs: Check the return code of close when generating + a catalog for sgml-base. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Emulate "install -d" with File::Path to avoid a fork+exec + for creating directories. For simplicity, the verbose output still + claim debhelper uses "install -d" for this. + * dh_auto_install: In compat 11, do not create package build + directories (except if one of them happens to be the default + "destdir" for dh_auto_install). + + [ Iain Lane ] + * Dh_Lib.pm: Re-add warning + exit 0 for the -i/-a shortcut that was + added in 10.3. (Closes: #863961) + * dh_install: Pass --exclude/-X to dh_missing. (Closes: #863447) + + [ Michael Stapelberg ] + * Dh_Getopt.pm: Provide a more detailed error message when there are + no buildable packages caused by architecture restrictions. + (Closes: #858467) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Split package_arch($package) into three distinct functions. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 25 Jun 2017 17:00:00 +0000 + +debhelper (10.4) experimental; urgency=medium + + * Team upload. + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * meson.pm: Pass --wrap-mode=nodownload to meson (requires meson + 0.40-1 or later). + * dh_install: Fix initialized warning when --sourcedir is absent + on the cmd-line. + * dh_missing: Accept --sourcedir (given it is passed by dh_install). + (Closes: #862049) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix a bug in pkgfile that caused dh to skip helpers + that had configuration files. Thanks to Michael Biebl for finding + and reporting. (Closes: #863387) + + [ Chris Lamb ] + * dh_fixperms: Fix regression where dh_fixperms would fail to correct + permissions because it used an invalid find expression. + (Closes: #862003) + + -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> Fri, 26 May 2017 22:08:37 +0200 + +debhelper (10.3) experimental; urgency=medium + + [ Helmut Grohne ] + * Supply PKG_CONFIG for cross compilation with the makefile buildsystem. + (Closes: #853881) + * Disable stripping during dh_auto_* in makefile buildsystem in compat 11. + (Closes: #844077) + * Remove explicit "Multi-Arch: no" stanzas as they are auto-rejected. + (Closes: #857028) + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * Dh_Lib.pm: Make getpackages() produce the correct result independently + of the order of the fields in a given paragraph of debian/control. + (Closes: #847138) + * dh_installman: Report installed manpages so the new dh_missing tool + is informed about them. + * dh_install: Deprecate --list-missing/--fail-missing in favor of the + new dh_missing tool. The options will be removed in compat 11. + * dh: Run dh_missing by default (in no op mode). + * dh_prep: Clean up generated files so they work like other temporary + debhelper files. + * dh_installinit: Clarify that it might make sense to skip dh_installinit + for a package if it provides a systemd service but no sysvinit file. + (Closes: #800043) + * dh_installinit: Deprecate --no-restart-on-upgrade in favor of the new + name --no-stop-on-upgrade, which does the same thing but is less + likely to be confused with --no-restart-after-upgrade and is more + descriptive of what it actually does. Thanks to Simon McVittie and + Michael Biebl for the help. (Closes: #837528) + * debian/rules: Only apply the --no-parallel to dh_auto_test. The rest + of debhelper's build appears to work fine with --parallel. + * dh_systemd_enable.1: Clarify that --no-enable does not control + whether a service is started and that dh_systemd_start is the tool + that does that. (Closes: #770281) + * autoconf.pm: Set --runstatedir to "/run" in compat 11. Thanks to + Michael Biebl for the suggestion. + * dh_fixperms: Refactor to reduce the constant overhead a bit and + extract some patterns into data list. The latter hopefully reducing + the need for tweaking dh_fixperms' logic. + * dh_installdocs: Document that --link-doc has limitations on source and + target package plus that compat 10 will reject unsupported + combinations. + * dh_gencontrol: Avoid adding Homepage fields to dbgsym packages. Avoids + non-overridable warnings from lintian when there is an issue in the + homepage field of the original binary. (Closes: #812248) + * dh_strip: Fix a check that could cause dh_strip to generate dbgsym + packages when it should not. + * dh: Stop loading python-support in all compat levels as dh_pysupport + has been removed in stretch. + * python_support.pm: Remove the content with a deprecation warning as + the module can no longer do anything. + * dh_installman.1: Improve the manpage to clarify the scope of + dh_installman and provide an examples. (Closes: LP: #184156) + * makefile.pm: Disable parallel installation if libtool is present to + avoid a race-condition in automake when using libtool. + (Closes: #861627) + + [ Steven Chamberlain ] + * When cross-compiling for GNU/kFreeBSD host systems, set + CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME to the correct value "kFreeBSD", not "FreeBSD". + (Closes: #856688) + + [ Felipe Sateler ] + * dh_systemd_enable.1: Improve the wording of the documentation for + the --no-enable option. (Closes: #844602) + + [ Michael Biebl ] + * Add support for meson + ninja build systems. (Closes: #795253) + + [ Michael Stapelberg ] + * dh_missing: New tool to handle --list-missing/--fail-missing. + (Closes: #415396, #616070) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Introduce a log_installed_files sub that can be used + to inform dh_missing that a given file has been installed. + + [ Johannes Schauer ] + * dh_link.1: Improve the documentation and use ln(1) as a reference + to make it simpler for people, who are used to the terms from ln. + (Closes: #860091) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 06 May 2017 13:29:31 +0000 + +debhelper (10.2.5) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Translations ] + * Add Japanese translation (Hideki Yamane) (Closes: #852520) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Wed, 25 Jan 2017 20:47:27 +0000 + +debhelper (10.2.4) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * d/changelog: Add missing changelog entry in 10.2.3 for a + compat 11 change. + * dh: Show when the "create-stamp" "command" is being run. + * dh: Fix a bug where dh would repeat part of the build sequence + when an add-on modified the build sequence after "dh_auto_test". + Thanks to Sean Whitton for reporting the issue. + (Closes: #851071) + + [ Luca Boccassi ] + * dh_systemd_enable: Correct installation for "mount" units. + (Closes: #851744) + + [ Translations ] + * Update Portuguese translation (Américo Monteiro) + (Closes: #851207) + * Update French translation (Baptiste Jammet) (Closes: #852211) + * Update German translation (Chris Leick) (Closes: #851962) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:28:37 +0000 + +debhelper (10.2.3) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Axel Beckert ] + * Fix wrong German translation of dh_systemd_start man page. Thanks to + Thorsten Alteholz for spotting the mistake! (Closes: #839655) + + [ Mattia Rizzolo ] + * dh_auto_test: Apply patch from Mattia Rizzolo to update + documentation about running tests during cross-building. + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * Bump dependency on dh-strip-nondeterminism to ensure + stable-backports uses a functional version. Thanks to Christoph + Biedl for the report. (Closes: #843813) + * Massage md5sum output to avoid GNU-specific escaping extension + while we wait for dpkg-gendigests for a more compatible tool. + Thanks to Bernd Zeimetz for the report. (Closes: #843163) + * In compat 11, dh will now skip creating a stamp file unless the + package explicitly requests it with "--with build-stamp". + + [ Felipe Sateler ] + * dh_systemd_start: Fix a bug where --restart-after-upgrade with + --no-start would still start the service. (Closes: #805878) + * dh_installinit: Leave the handling of debian/pkg.service and + debian/pkg.tmpfiles to dh_systemd_*. (Closes: #830208) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 31 Dec 2016 21:27:54 +0000 + +debhelper (10.2.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Fix typo in changelog entry for release 10.2. Thanks to + Peter Pentchev for reporting it. + * Deprecate all compat levels lower than 9. + * dh: Discard override log files before running the override + rather than after. + * dh_compress,dh_fixperms: Remove references to long + obsolete directories such as usr/info, usr/man and + usr/X11*/man. + * autoreconf.pm: Apply patch from Helmut Grohne to fix + autoconf/cross regression from #836988. The autoreconf + build-system is now also used directly for "clean" and + "build" (while still using the "make" build-system for the + heavy lifting). (Closes: #839681) + * dh_installdirs: In compat 11, avoid creating debian/<pkg> + directories except when required to do so. This fixes a + corner case, where an arch:all build would behave + differently than an arch:all+arch:any when dh_installdir is + optimised out only for the arch:all build. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix typo of positive. Thanks to Matthias Klose + for spotting it. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 08 Oct 2016 10:16:23 +0000 + +debhelper (10.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * d/rules: Add a ./run in front of dh_auto_install. It is + technically not needed, but it prevents lintian from assuming + that we need to Build-Depend debhelper. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 02 Oct 2016 06:51:49 +0000 + +debhelper (10.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Apply patch from Peter Pentchev to fix some typos. + * Apply patch from Michael Biebl to undo a major + regression where all of debhelper's functionality was + missing (introduced in 10.1). (Closes: #839557) + * dh_installinit,dh_systemd_start: Introduce a new + --no-stop-on-upgrade as an alternative to + --no-restart-on-upgrade. This new option should + reduce the confusion of what it does. Thanks to + Michael Biebl for the suggestion. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 02 Oct 2016 06:20:56 +0000 + +debhelper (10.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Apply patch from Michael Biebl to take over dh-systemd + package to ease backporting to jessie-backports. + (Closes: #837585) + * Apply patch from Helmut Grohne and Julian Andres Klode + to improve cross-building support in the cmake build + system. (Closes: #833789) + * Make the makefile.pm buildsystem (but not subclasses thereof) + pass the CC and CXX variables set to the host compilers when + cross-building. Thanks to Helmut Grohne for the idea and + the initial patch. (Closes: #836988) + * dh_md5sums.1: Mention dpkg --verify as a consumer of the + output file. Thanks to Guillem Jover for reporting it. + * debhelper-obsolete-compat.pod: Add a manpage for the + upgrade checklist for all obsolete/removed compat levels. + Thanks to Jakub Wilk for the suggestion. + * Dh_Getopt.pm,dh_*: Rename --onlyscripts to --only-scripts and + --noscripts to --no-scripts for consistency with other + options. The old variants are accepted for compatibility. + Thanks to Raphaël Hertzog for the suggestion. + (Closes: #838446) + * cmake.pm: If cmake fails, also dump CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log + and CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log if they are present. Thanks to + Michael Banck for the suggestion. (Closes: #839389) + * d/copyright: Correct copyright and license of dh_systemd* + tools. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 01 Oct 2016 20:45:27 +0000 + +debhelper (10) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * Dh_Lib.pm: Support a new named "beta-tester" compat level. + If you want to participate in beta testing of new compat + levels, please review "man 7 debhelper" for more + information. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Fix bug in detection of existing auto-trigger. + + [ Axel Beckert ] + * Apply patch by Jens Reyer to fix typo in dh_installdocs man page. + (Closes: #836344) + * Use uppercase "Debian" in package description when the project is + meant. Fixes lintian warning capitalization-error-in-description. + * Apply "wrap-and-sort -a" + * Add a .mailmap file for making "git shortlog" work properly. + + [ Translations ] + * Update German translation (Chris Leick) (Closes: #835593) + * Update Portuguese translation (Américo Monteiro) + (Closes: #835403) + * Update French translation (Baptiste Jammet) (Closes: #836693) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 11 Sep 2016 09:00:23 +0000 + +debhelper (9.20160814) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installdocs: Apply patch from Sven Joachim to make + --link-doc work again in compat 11 (See: #830309) + * t: Apply patch from Sven Joachim to add some test cases + to dh_installdocs's --link-doc behaviour. + (Closes: #831465) + * dh_installinit,dh_systemd_start: Apply patches from + Peter Pentchev to make -R default in compat 10 (as + documented, but not as implemented). + * perl_{build,makemaker}.pm: Apply patch from Dominic + Hargreaves to explicitly pass -I. to perl. This is to + assist with the fix for CVE-2016-1238. (Closes: #832436) + * dh_install: Clarify that "debian/not-installed" is not + related to the --exclude parameter. + * dh_install: Apply patch from Sven Joachim to support + the "debian/tmp" prefix being optional in + "debian/not-installed". (Closes: #815506) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Apply patch from Dominic Hargreaves to set + PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC to fix a further set of packages + which fail to build with . removed from @INC. + (Closes: #832436) + * Dh_Buildsystems.pm: Enable auto-detection of the maven + and gradle buildsystems (provided they are installed). + Thanks to Emmanuel Bourg for the suggestion. + (Closes: #801732) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 14 Aug 2016 09:19:35 +0000 + +debhelper (9.20160709) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Explicitly Build-Depends on perl:any for pod2man instead + of relying on it implicitly via libdpkg-perl. + * dh_shlibdeps: Clarify that -L is also useful for packages + using debian/shlibs.local for private libraries. + * dh_installdocs: Apply patch from Sven Joachim to fix a + regression with --link-doc and installing extra + documentation. (Closes: #830309) + * Apply patches from Michael Biebl to merge dh_systemd_enable + and dh_systemd_start from the dh-systemd package. + (Closes: #822670) + * dh: Enable the systemd helpers by default in compat 10 and + later. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 09 Jul 2016 09:53:02 +0000 + +debhelper (9.20160702) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Start on compat 11. + * dh_installmenu: Stop installing menu files in compat 11 + (menu-methods are still installed). + * dh_*: Deprecate -s in favor of -a. The -s option is + removed in compat 11. + * dh_strip: Fix regression in 9.20160618, which caused + issues when there were hardlinked ELF binaries in a + package. Thanks to Sven Joachim for the report, the + analysis/testing and for providing a patch for the + most common case. (Closes: #829142) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Cope with the parallel options in make 4.2. + Thanks to Martin Dorey for the report. (Closes: #827132) + * dh_installdocs: In compat 11, install documentation into + /usr/share/doc/mainpackage as requested by policy 3.9.7. + Thanks to Sandro Knauß for the report. (Closes: #824221) + * dh_perl: Emit perl:any dependencies when a package only + contains perl programs (but no modules of any kind). + Thanks to Javier Serrano Polo and Niko Tyni for the + report and feedback. (Closes: #824696) + + [ Translations ] + * Update German translation (Chris Leick + Eduard Bloch) + (Closes: #827699) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 02 Jul 2016 13:24:21 +0000 + +debhelper (9.20160618.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Dh_Lib.pm: Reject requests for compat 4 instead of + silently accepting it (while all helpers no longer + check for it). + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 18 Jun 2016 20:52:29 +0000 + +debhelper (9.20160618) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh: Fix bug where "--help" or "--list" would not work + unless "debian/compat" existed and had a supported + compat level. (Closes: #820508) + * dh_compress: Gracefully handle debian (or any other + path segment in the package "tmpdir") being a symlink + pointing outside the same directory. Thanks to + Bernhard Miklautz for the report. (Closes: #820711) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Compat files are now mandatory. + * dh_clean: Remove work around for missing compat file. + This removes a confusing warning when the package is + not built by CDBS. (Closes: #811059) + * debhelper.pod: Add a line stating that debian/compat + is mandatory. (Closes: #805405) + * dh_strip: Apply patch from Peter Pentchev to only strip + static libraries with a basename matching "lib.*\.a". + (Closes: #820446) + * ant.pm: Apply patch from Emmanuel Bourg to pass a + normalised "user.name" parameter to ant. + (Closes: #824490) + * dh_installudev/dh_installmodules: Drop maintainer + script snippets for migrating conffiles. + - Side effect, avoids portability issue with certain + shell implementations. (Closes: #815158) + * autoscripts/*inst-moveconffile: Remove unused files. + * dh: Update documentation to reflect the current + implementation. + * Remove support for compat 4. + * dh_strip: Add debuglinks to ELF binaries even with + DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noautodbgsym to make the regular deb + bit-for-bit reproducible with vs. without this flag. + Thanks to Helmut Grohne for the report. + * dh_installcatalogs: Apply patch from Helmut Grohne to + explicitly trigger a new update-sgmlcatalog trigger, + since dpkg does not triger conffiles on package removal. + (Closes: #825005) + * dh_installcatalos: Apply patch from Helmut Grohne to + remove autoscript for a transition that completed in + Wheezy. + * dh_strip: Unconditionally pass --enable-deterministic-archives + to strip for static libs as the stable version of binutils + supports it. + * dh_strip: Use file(1) to determine the build-id when + available. This saves an readelf call for every binary in + the package. + * dh_strip: Cache file(1) output to avoid calling file(1) + twice on all ELF binaries in the package. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Add better error messages when a debhelper program + fails due to an executable config file not terminating with + success. (Closes: #818933) + * dh_strip: Pass -e to file(1) to skip tests for file formats + that dh_strip does not care about. + * Bump standards-version to 3.9.8 - no changes required. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 18 Jun 2016 14:41:05 +0000 + +debhelper (9.20160403) unstable; urgency=medium + + * d/control: Require dh-autoreconf (>= 12) to ensure + non-autotools can be built in compat 10. + * dh: In a "PROMISE: DH NOOP" clause, make no assumptions + about being able to skip "foo(bar)" if "foo" is not known. + * debhelper.pod: Use DEB_HOST_ARCH instead of the incorrect + "build architecture". Thanks to Helmut Grohne for the + report. + * dh_makeshlibs: Use same regex for extracting SONAME as + dpkg-shlibdeps. (Closes: #509931) + * dh_makeshlibs: Add an ldconfig trigger if there is an + unversioned SONAME and the maintainer provides a + symbols file. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 03 Apr 2016 08:56:07 +0000 + +debhelper (9.20160402) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Remove dh_desktop. + * dh_install: Fix a regression where a non-existing file + was ignored if another file was matched for the same + destination dir. Thanks to Ben Hutchings for reporting + the issue. (Closes: #818834) + * d/rules: Use overrides to disable unnecessary helpers + (for which debhelper does not Build-Depend on the + necessary packages to run the tools). + * dh: Enable "autoreconf" sequence by default in compat + 10 (or higher). (Closes: #480576) + * d/control: Add a dependency on dh-autoreconf due to + the above. + * autoscripts/*-makeshlibs: Remove again. Most of the + reverse dependencies have migrated already. + * Declare compat 10 ready for testing. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 02 Apr 2016 19:20:17 +0000 + +debhelper (9.20160313) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Remove dh_undocumented. + * dh_install: Attempt to improve the documentation of the + config file "debian/not-installed". + * dh_compress: Gracefully handle absolute paths passed via + the -P option. Thanks to Andreas Beckmann for reporting + the issue. (Closes: #818049) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 13 Mar 2016 14:21:02 +0000 + +debhelper (9.20160306) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * Remove dh_suidregister and related autoscripts. No package + (that can be built in unstable) invokes this tool. + * dh: Do not create stamp files when running with --no-act. + * dh_strip/dh_gencontrol: Move "is_udeb" guard to dh_strip. + This should avoid adding build-ids to udebs without having + the actual debug symbols available. Thanks to Jérémy Bobbio + for reporting the issue. (Closes: #812879) + * dh_makeshlibs: Do not claim to be using maintainer scripts + for invoking ldconfig. Thanks to Eugene V. Lyubimkin for + the report. (Closes: #815401) + * Remove dh_scrollkeeper. It is no longer used in unstable. + * autoconf.pm: Apply patch from Gergely Nagy to set "VERBOSE=1" + when running tests to make sure that the build logs are + dumped on error with automake. (Closes: #798648, #744380) + * dh_installdeb: In compat 10, properly shell escape lines + from the maintscript config file. This will *not* be fixed + retroactively since people have begun to rely on the bug + in previous versions (e.g. by quoting the file names). + Thanks to Jakub Wilk for reporting the issue. + (Closes: #803341) + * dh_installdeb: In compat 10, avoid adding two comments per line + in the maintscript file. Thanks to Didier Raboud for + reporting the bug. (Closes: #615854) + * cmake.pm: Apply patch from Helmut Grohne to correct the + name of the default cross compilers. (Closes: #812136) + * dh_installdeb: Clarify what goes in the "maintscript" config + files. Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the report. + (Closes: #814761) + * dh_compress: Correct and warn if given a path with a package + tmp dir prefix (e.g. "debian/<pkg>/path/to/file"). + * dh_compress: Handle file resolution failures more gracefully. + Thanks to Daniel Leidert for reporting this issue. + (Closes: #802274) + * dh_installinit: Make --restart-after-upgrade the default in + compat 10. Packages can undo this by using the new + --no-restart-after-upgrade parameter. + * d/control: Update Vcs links. + * d/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.7 - no changes + required. + * Import newer German translations from Chris Leick. + (Closes: #812790) + + [ Joachim Breitner ] + * addsubstvar: Pass -a to grep to handle substvars with unicode content + gracefully (Closes: #815620) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 06 Mar 2016 13:14:43 +0000 + +debhelper (9.20160115) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Fix brown paper bag bug that caused many packages to + FTBFS when dh_update_autotools_config was called. + (Closes: #811052) + * Revert removal of autoscripts/*-makeshlibs. Some packages + injected them directly into their maintainer scripts. + (Closes: #811038) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:28:37 +0000 + +debhelper (9.20160114) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * Dh_Lib.pm: Pass "-S" to dpkg-parsechangelog when requesting + the Version field. + * Drop compat level 3. + * dh_install: Only fallback to debian/tmp if the given glob + does not start with debian/tmp. This should make the + output on failures less weird. + * autoscripts/*-makeshlibs: Removed, no longer used. + * dh: In compat 10, drop the manual sequence control arguments + and the sequence log files. (Closes: #510855) + * dh_update_autotools_config: New helper to update config.sub + and config.guess. + * dh: Run dh_update_autotools_config before dh_auto_configure. + (Closes: #733045) + * d/control: Add dependency on autotools-dev for the new + dh_update_autotools_config tool. + * dh_installinit: Correct the "PROMISE NOOP" clause to account + for /etc/tmpfiles.d and /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d. + * dh_strip: Add "--(no-)automatic-dbgsym" and "--dbgsym-migration" + options to replace "--(no-)ddebs" and "--ddeb-migration". + (Closes: #810948) + + [ Dmitry Shachnev ] + * dh_install: Fail because of missing files only after processing + all file lists for all packages. (Closes: #488346) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Thu, 14 Jan 2016 22:01:03 +0000 + +debhelper (9.20151225) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installmanpages: Fix call to getpackages. Thanks to + Niko Tyni for reporting the issue. (Closes: #808603) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Restore the behaviour of getpackages(), which + is slightly different from getpackages('both'). Fixes + a regression introduced in 9.20151220. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Fri, 25 Dec 2015 14:39:18 +0000 + +debhelper (9.20151220) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_strip: Document that dbgsym packages are built by + default. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Cache the results of getpackages. + * dh_gencontrol: Create debug symbol packages with the same + component as the original package. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 20 Dec 2015 11:59:33 +0000 + +debhelper (9.20151219) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installinit: Apply patch from Reiner Herrmann to sort + temporary files put in postinst. (Closes: #806392) + * dh_installinit: Import change from Ubuntu to add /g + modifier when substituting the auto-script snippets. + * dh_*: Add /g when substituting the auto-script snippts in + other commands as well. + * dh_strip: Do not assume that ELF binaries have a Build-Id. + Thanks to Helmut Grohne for spotting this issue. + (Closes: #806814) + * dh_strip: Enable generation of dbgsym packages by default. + Thanks to Ansgar Burchardt and Paul Tagliamonte for + implementing the DAK side of this feature. + (Closes: #510772) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 19 Dec 2015 22:01:53 +0000 + +debhelper (9.20151126) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_compress: Apply patch from Michael Biebl to skip + compression of .devhelp2 files. (Closes: #789153) + * dh_installinit: Undo "Disable initscripts when a package is + removed (but not yet purged)". (Reopens #749400, + Closes: #806276) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Thu, 26 Nov 2015 18:06:06 +0100 + +debhelper (9.20151117) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_clean: Temporarily interpret the absence of d/compat and + DH_COMPAT to mean compat 5. This is to avoid breaking + packages that rely on cdbs to set debian/compat to 5 during + the build. This temporary work around will live until + d/compat becomes mandatory. (Closes: #805404) + + [ Translations ] + * Update German translation (Chris Leick) + (Closes: #802198) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:29:17 +0100 + +debhelper (9.20151116) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_strip: Sort build-ids to make the Build-Ids header + reproducible. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Respect --no-act in autotrigger, thanks to + Andreas Henriksson and Helmut Grohne for reporting + the issue. (Closes: #800919) + * Fix typos in various manpages. Thanks to Chris Leick + for reporting them. + * dh_clean: Avoid cleaning up debian/.debhelper when + passed the "-d" flag. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Reject compat levels earlier than 3. + * dh_clean: Support removal of directory (plus contents) + when they are marked with a trailing slash. + (Closes: #511048) + * dh_install,dh_installdocs,dh_installexamples: Apply + patches from Niko Tyni to make timestamp of directories + created from "find"-pipelines reproducible. + (Closes: #802005) + * dh_installinit: The postinst snippets are now only run + during "configure" or "abort-upgrade". + (Closes: #188028) + * cmake.pm: Apply patch from Jonathan Hall to fix an + accidental error hiding. (Closes: #802984) + * qmake.pm: Apply patch from Sergio Durigan Junior to + create the build dir if it doesn't exist. + (Closes: #800738) + * dh_installinit: Disable initscripts when a package is + removed (but not yet purged). (Closes: #749400) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Reject debian/compat files where the first + line is not entirely a positive number. + + [ Translations ] + * Update German translation (Chris Leick) + (Closes: #802198) + * Update Portuguese translation (Américo Monteiro) + (Closes: #804631) + * Updated french translation (Baptiste Jammet) + (Closes: #805218) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:05:53 +0100 + +debhelper (9.20151005) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_strip: Sort build-ids to make the Build-Ids header + reproducible. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Respect --no-act in autotrigger, thanks to + Andreas Henriksson and Helmut Grohne for reporting + the issue. (Closes: #800919) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Mon, 05 Oct 2015 08:33:26 +0200 + +debhelper (9.20151004) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh,dh_auto_*: Apply patch from Eduard Sanou to define + SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. (Closes: #791823) + * cmake.pm: Add better cross-compile support for cmake. + Heavily based on a patch from Helmut Grohne. + (Closes: #794396) + * cmake.pm: Pass -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc and + -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR=/var to cmake. Thanks to + Felix Geyer, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer and + Michael Terry for the assistance plus suggestions. + (Closes: #719148) + * dh_installinit: Quote directory name before using it in + a regex. + * dh_installinit: Create script snippets for tmpfiles.d + files even if the package has no sysvinit script or + explicit debian/<package>.service file. + (Closes: #795519) + * dh_makeshlibs: Revert passing -X to ldconfig in compat 10 + after talking with the glibc maintainer. This is not the + right place to make this change. + * d/control: Remove the homepage field. + * dh: Make dh_strip_nondeterminism optional, so debhelper + does not need to build-depend on it. + * dh_gencontrol/dh_builddeb: Temporarily stop building ddebs + for udebs as dpkg-gencontrol and dpkg-deb does not agree + the default file extension for these. + * dh_builddeb: Generate udebs with the correct filename even + when "-V" is passed to dpkg-gencontrol. This relies on + dpkg-deb getting everything but the extension correct + (see #575059, #452273 for why it does not produce the + correct extension). + (Closes: #516721, #677353, #672282) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Drop now unused "udeb_filename" subroutine. + * dh_strip.1: Correct the documentation about ddebs to + reflect the current implementation (rather than the + desired "state"). Thanks to Jakub Wilk for the report. + (Closes: #797002) + * dh_fixperms: Reset permissions to 0644 for .js, .css, + .jpeg, .jpg, .png, and .gif files. Thanks to Ernesto + Hernández-Novich for the suggestion. (Closes: #595097) + * dh_install: Read debian/not-installed if present as a + list of files that are deliberately not installed. + Files listed here will not cause dh_install to complain + with --list-missing. Thanks to Peter Eisentraut for the + suggestion. (Closes: #436240) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Cherry-pick patch from Chris Lamb to only read + the latest changelog entry when determining the + SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. + * debhelper.7: Provide a better example of how to insert + the debhelper maintainer script snippets into a maintainer + script written in Perl. Thanks to Jakub Wilk for + reporting the issues. (Closes: #797904) + * dh_shlibdeps: The "-L" option can now be passed multiple + times with different package names. Thanks to Tristan + Schmelcher for the suggestion. (Closes: #776103) + * dh,Buildsytems: In compat 10, default to --parallel. + * dh,Buildsytems: Accept "--no-parallel" to disable + parallel builds. It is effectively the same as using + --max-parallel=1 but may be more intuitive to some people. + * dh_makeshlibs: Use a noawait trigger to invoke ldconfig + rather maintscripts. + * dh_installdirs.1: Add a note that many packages will work + fine without calling dh_installdirs. (Closes: #748993) + * dh_compress: Apply patch from Rafael Kitover to support + passing files to dh_compress that would have been + compressed anyway. (Closes: #794898) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Apply patch from Gergely Nagy to make debhelper + export "DH_CONFIG_ACT_ON_PACKAGES" when executing an + executable debhelper config file. This is intended to + assist dh-exec (etc.) in figuring what packages are + acted on. (Closes: #698054) + * dh_movefiles: Expand globs in arguments passed in all + compat levels (and not just compat 1 and 2). + (Closes: #800332) + * dh_installinit: Clearly document that --onlyscripts + should generally be used with -p (or similar) to limit + the number of affected packages. (Closes: #795193) + + [ Paul Tagliamonte ] + * dh_gencontrol: Put debug debs back in the "debug" section. + * dh_strip/dh_gencontrol: Add a space separated list of + build-ids in the control file of packages containing + detached debug symbols. + + [ Andrew Ayer ] + * d/control: Depend on dh-strip-nondeterminism + * dh: Call dh_strip_nondeterminism during build. + (Closes: #759895) + + [ Colin Watson ] + * Buildsystem.pm: Fix doit_in_sourcedir/doit_in_builddir to + always chdir back to the original directory even if the + subprocess exits non-zero. (Closes: #798116) + + [ Translations ] + * Update Portuguese translation (Américo Monteiro) + (Closes: #790820) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 04 Oct 2015 17:34:16 +0200 + +debhelper (9.20150811) unstable; urgency=medium + + * d/changelog: Add missing entry for dh_md5sums/#786695 in + the 9.20150628 release. + * Makefile: Set LC_ALL=C when sorting. + * dh: Avoid passing --parallel to other debhelper commands + if it is the only option and "parallel" is not set (or + set to 1) in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. + * dh_strip: Apply patch from Guillem Jover to fix a typo. + (Closes: #792207) + * dh_makeshlibs: Avoid an uninitialised warning in some + error cases. Thanks to Jakub Wilk for reporting it. + (Closes: #793092) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Apply patch from Guillem Jover to use the + value of dpkg-architecture variables from the environment, + if present. (Closes: #793440) + * Dh_Buildsystems.pm/Dh_Lib.pm: Import Exporter's import + subroutine rather than adding Exporter to @ISA. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Use Dpkg::Arch's debarch_is rather than running + dpkg-architecture to determine if an architecture matches + a wildcard. Heavily based on a patch from Guillem Jover. + (Closes: #793443) + * dh_strip: Always compress debug sections of debug symbols + in ddebs. + * dh_strip: Strip ".comment" and ".note" sections from static + libraries. Thanks to Helmut Grohne for the suggestion. + (Closes: #789351) + * dh_gencontrol: Stop explicitly passing -DSource to + dpkg-gencontrol when building ddebs. The passed value was + wrong sometimes (e.g. with binNMUs) and dpkg-gencontrol + since 1.18.2~ computes the value correctly. + * d/control: Bump dependency on dpkg-dev to 1.18.2~ for + ddebs. Build-depends not bumped since debhelper itself + does not produce any ddebs. + * dh_makeshlibs: Continue generating reports from + dpkg-gensymbols after the first error. This helps + packages with multiple libraries to spot all the symbol + issues in one build. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Tue, 11 Aug 2015 22:47:08 +0200 + +debhelper (9.20150628) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Upload to unstable with ddebs support disabled by default. + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * Buildsystem.pm: Apply patch from Emmanuel Bourg to + provide doit_in_{build,source}dir_noerror methods. + (Closes: #785811) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Promote error_exitcode to a regular exported + subroutine (from an internal one). + * dh_compress: Apply patch from Osamu Aoki to avoid compressing + ".xhtml" files and to use a POSIX compliant find expression. + (Closes: #740405) + * dh_makeshlibs: Fix typo in manpage. Thanks to Jakub Wilk for + reporting it. (Closes: #788473) + * dh_auto_test: Run tests by default even during cross-building. + (Closes: #726967) + * dh_gencontrol: Put ddebs in the "debugsym" section. + * dh_strip: Support a new --[no-]ddebs option intended for + packages to disable automatic ddebs. + * dh_strip: Do not create ddebs for "-dbg" packages. + * dh_builddeb/dh_gencontrol: Let dpkg figure out the name + of the ddebs itself now that ddebs uses a ".deb" + extension. + * dh_md5sums: create DEBIAN dir in ddebs before using it. + (Closes: #786695) + + [ Thibaut Paumard ] + * Bug fix: "dh_usrlocal leaves directories behind", thanks to Andreas + Beckmann (Closes: #788098). + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 28 Jun 2015 13:51:48 +0200 + +debhelper (9.20150519+ddebs) experimental; urgency=medium + + * dh_strip: Add --ddeb-migration option to support migration + from a --dbg-package to a automatic ddeb. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Add "package_multiarch" function. + * d/control: Add versioned Build-Depends on dpkg-dev to support + creating ddebs with the ".deb" extension. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Generate ddebs with the ".deb" extension. + * dh_gencontrol: Reduce the "pkg:arch" to "pkg" as APT and dpkg + disagree on what satisfies an "pkg:arch" dependency. + * dh_strip.1: Document what inhibits ddeb generation. + * dh_gencontrol: Only mark a ddeb as Multi-Arch: same if the + original deb was Multi-Arch: same. All other ddebs are now + Multi-Arch: no (by omitting the field). + * dh_strip: Avoid generating a ddeb if the same name as an + explicitly declared package. Apparently, Ubuntu has been + creating some of these manually. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Tue, 19 May 2015 21:56:55 +0200 + +debhelper (9.20150507) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_bugfiles: Fix regression in installing the reportbug + script correctly. Thanks to Jakub Wilk for reporting. + (Closes: #784648) + + [ Translation updates ] + * pt - Thanks to Américo Monteiro. + (Closes: #784582) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Thu, 07 May 2015 20:07:49 +0200 + +debhelper (9.20150502+ddebs) experimental; urgency=medium + + * Add /experimental/ ddebs support *if* the environment + variable DH_BUILD_DDEBS is set to 1. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 02 May 2015 10:35:29 +0200 + +debhelper (9.20150502) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_compress: REVERT change to avoid compressing ".xhtml" + files due to #784016. (Reopens: #740405, Closes: #784016) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sat, 02 May 2015 10:21:42 +0200 + +debhelper (9.20150501) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * dh_strip: Recognise .node as potential ELF binaries that + should be stripped like a regular shared library. Thanks + to Paul Tagliamonte for the report. (Closes: #668852) + * dh_shlibdeps: Recognise .node as potential ELF binaries that + should be processed like a regular shared library. Thanks + to Paul Tagliamonte for the report. (Closes: #668851) + * Convert package to the 3.0 (native) format, so dpkg-source + strips the .git directory by default during build. + * Reorder two paragraphs in d/copyright to avoid one of them + being completely overwritten by the other. + * d/control: Use the canonical URLs for the Vcs-* fields. + * dh_makeshlibs: Apply patch from Jérémy Bobbio to ensure + stable ordering of generated shlibs files. + (Closes: #774100) + * dh_icons: Apply patch from Jérémy Bobbio to ensure stable + ordering of the icon list inserted into generated maintainer + scripts. (Closes: #774102) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Add a public "make_symlink" subroutine allowing + dh_*-like tools to generate policy compliant symlinks without + invoking dh_link. (Closes: #610173) + * dh_compress: Apply patch from Osamu Aoki to avoid compressing + ".xhtml" files. (Closes: #740405) + * dh_gconf: Apply patch from Josselin Mouette to avoid + dependency on gconf2 for installs of non-schema files. + (Closes: #592958) + * dh_fixperms: Correct permissions of reportbug files and scripts. + Thanks to Fabian Greffrath for the report and a basic patch. + (Closes: #459548) + * The "ant" build system now loads debian/ant.properties + automatically before build and clean (like CDBS). Thanks to + Thomas Koch for the report. (Closes: #563909) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Add install_dh_config_file to install a file either by + copying the source file or (with an executable file under compat + 9) execute the file and use its output to generate the + destination. + * dh_lintian: Under compat 9, the debian/lintian-overrides are now + executed if they have the exec-bit set like the debian/install + files. Thanks to Axel Beckert for the report. (Closes: #698500) + * d/rules: Remove makefile target only intended for/used by the + previous maintainer. + * dh_makeshlibs: In compat 10+, pass "-X" to ldconfig to + only regenerate the cache (instead of also creating missing + symlinks). Thanks to Joss Mouette for the suggestion. + (Closes: #549990) + * autoscripts/post{inst,rm}-makeshlibs-c10: New files. + * dh_strip: Pass the --enable-deterministic-archives option to strip + when it is stripping static libraries. This avoids some + unnecessary non-determinism in builds. Based on patch by + Andrew Ayer. + * dh_install, dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples and dh_installinfo: + Pass --reflink=auto to cp. On supported filesystems, this provides + faster copying. + * Make perl tests verbose. Thanks to gregor herrmann for the patch. + (Closes: #714546) + * Dh_Lib.pm: Apply patch from Martin Koeppe to provide + install_{dir,file,prog,lib} subroutines for installing directories, + regular files, scripts/executables and libraries (respectively). + * Migrate many "ad-hoc" calls to "install" to the new "install_X" + subroutines from Dh_Lib.pm. Based on patch from Martin Koeppe. + (Closes: #438930) + * dh_gconf: Apply patch from Martin Koeppe to avoid adding a layer + of shell-escaping to a printed command line when the command was + in fact run without said layer of shell-escaping. + * dh_installdocs: Use ${binary:Version} for generating dependencies + with "--link-doc" instead of trying to determine the correct + package version. Thanks to Stephen Kitt for reporting this + issue. (Closes: #747141) + * dh_installdocs.1: Document that --link-doc may in some cases + require a dir to symlink (or symlink to dir) migration. + (Closes: #659044) + * dh_usrlocal: Apply patch from Jérémy Bobbio to generate + deterministic output. (Closes: #775020) + * dh_makeshlibs: In compat 10, install the maintainer-provided shlibs + file (replacing the generated one). (Closes: #676168) + * dh_installdeb: In compat 10, stop installing the maintainer-provided + shlibs file as it is now done by dh_makeshlibs instead. + * dh_installdocs: Remove remark about dh_installdocs not being + idempotent as it no longer adds anything to maintainer scripts. + * autoscripts/*-emacsen: Apply patch from Paul Wise to check that + emacs-package-{install,remove} is (still) present before invoking + it. (Closes: #736896) + * dh_install: Document that dh-exec can be used to do renaming + and provide a trivial example of how to achieve it. (Closes: #245554) + * dh_makeshlibs: Apply patch from Guillem Jover to stop adding + Pre-Depends on multiarch-support. The transition is far enough that + we do not need it any longer. (Closes: #783898) + * dh_gencontrol: Insert an empty misc:Pre-Depends to avoid warnings + in packages for using a (now often) non-existing substvars. + * d/control: Remove versioned conflicts that are no longer relevant. + + [ Bernhard R. Link ] + * Dh_Lib.pm: apply patch from Guillem Jover to support case-insensitive + control field names. (Closes: #772129) + * add DH_QUIET environment variable to make things more silent + * dh: don't output commands to run if DH_QUIET is set + * buildsystems print commands unless DH_QUIET is set + (Closes: #639168, #680687) + * autoconf is always passed one of + --enable-silent-rules (if DH_QUIET is set) or + --disable-silent-rules (otherwise). (Closes: #551463, #680686) + * dh_compress: exclude .xz .lzma and .lz files from compression + (Closes: #778927) + * dh_installwm: call by dh after dh_link (Closes: #781077), + error out in compat 10 if no man page found + + [ Jason Pleau ] + * dh_installchangelogs: Add CHANGES.md to the list of common changelog + filenames (Closes: #779471) + + [ Axel Beckert ] + * dh_installchangelogs: Consistent suffix search order (none, ".txt", + ".md") for all upstream changelog file names ("changelog", "changes", + "history"). + + Looks for "history.md" now, too. + + Makes it easier to add base names or suffixes in the future. + * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelogs with .rst suffix. + + [ Tianon Gravi ] + * debhelper.pod: Clarify "ENVIRONMENT" requirements for Makefile syntax. + (Closes: #780133) + + [ Translation updates ] + * pt - Thanks to Américo Monteiro. + (Closes: #758575) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Fri, 01 May 2015 14:53:16 +0200 + +debhelper (9.20150101) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * Revert detection of unsafe binNMUs under compat 9 and + earlier. It had some false-positives. (Closes: #773965) + + [ Axel Beckert ] + * Document that dh_installdocs will error out on --link-doc + between arch:all and arch:any packages in man 7 debhelper. + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Thu, 01 Jan 2015 17:05:01 +0100 + +debhelper (9.20141222) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Add missing entry about #747141. + * Fix typo in comment in dh_installman. Thanks to Raphael + Geissert for spotting it. (Closes: #772502) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Mon, 22 Dec 2014 01:02:52 +0100 + +debhelper (9.20141221) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Niels Thykier ] + * New debhelper maintainers. (Closes: #768507) + - Add Niels Thykier to uploaders. + * dh_installdeb: Raise required dpkg version for dir_to_symlink to + 1.17.13 (see #769843, msg #10). Thanks to Guillem Jover. + * Refuse to build packages using --link-doc between arch:any and + arch:all packages (or vice versa) as it results in broken + packages. + - In compat 9 or less: Only during an actual binNMU. + - In compat 10 or newer: Unconditionally. + (Closes: #747141) + + [ Bernhard R. Link ] + - Add Bernhard Link to uploaders. + + [ Axel Beckert ] + * dh_installdeb: Raise required dpkg version for symlink_to_dir to + 1.17.14. It is needed in case of relative symlinks. (Closes: #770245) + + -- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:21:18 +0100 + +debhelper (9.20141107) unstable; urgency=medium + + * I'm leaving Debian, and Debhelper needs a new maintainer. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:15:10 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20141022) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdeb: Sort conffile list so there is a stable order for + reproducible builds. Closes: #766384 Thanks, Jérémy Bobbio. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:43:12 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20141010) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Johannes Schauer ] + * Depend on libdpkg-perl (>= 1.17.14) for build profiles support. Note to + backporters: If you remove that dependency, debhelper will throw an error + when a binary package stanza in debian/control has the Build-Profiles + field. + * Use libdpkg-perl functionality to parse the content of the Build-Profiles + field, if there is one. In that case, use libdpkg-perl to evaluate whether + the binary package should be built or not. + Closes: #763766 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:42:56 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20141003) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_clean: Skip over .git, .svn, .bzr, .hg, and CVS directories + and avoid cleaning their contents. Closes: #760033 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:16:00 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20140817) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Added Portuguese translation of the man pages, by Américo Monteiro. + Closes: #758043 + * Updated German translation from Chris Leick. + Closes: #735610 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2014 10:42:25 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20140809) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_perl: Add perlapi-* dependency on packages installed to + $Config{vendorarch} Closes: #751684 + * dh_perl: Use vendorlib and vendorarch from Config instead of + hardcoding their values. Closes: #750021 + * Typo: Closes: #755237 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 09 Aug 2014 11:24:41 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20140613) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Pass --disable-silent-rules in dh_auto_configure if DH_VERBOSE is set. + Closes: #751207. Thanks, Helmut Grohne. + * Minor typos. Closes: #741144, #744176 + * dh_installinit: Fix uninitialized value warning when --name is used. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:50:09 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20140228) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Fix breakage in no-act mode introduced in last release. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:02:35 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20140227) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .map files, which may be html + usemaps. Closes: #704443 + * dh_installdocs: When doc dirs are symlinked make the dependency + versioned per policy. Closes: #676777 + * dh_makeshlibs: Defer propagating dpkg-gensymbols error until + all packages have been processed. Closes: #736640 + * dh: Reject unknown parameters that are not dashed command-line + parameters intended to be passed on to debhelper commands. + Closes: #737635 + * perl_build: Use realclean instead of distclean. Closes: #737662 + * Initial implementation of support for Build-Profiles fields. + Thanks, Daniel Schepler. + * dh_gencontrol: Revert change made in version 4.0.13 that avoided + passing -p to dpkg-gencontrol when only operating on one package. + There seems to be no benefit to doing that, and it breaks when using + Build-Profiles, since while debhelper may know a profile only allows + for one package, dpkg-gencontrol may see other packages in the + control file. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:49:56 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20131227) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Guillem Jover ] + * dh_shlibdeps: Use new dpkg-shlibdeps -l option instead of LD_LIBRARY_PATH + Closes: #717505 + * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.0), the version that introduced + dpkg-shlibdeps -l option. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Dec 2013 21:52:53 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20131213) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Joey Hess ] + * cmake: Configure with -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None + Closes: #701233 + + [ Andreas Beckmann ] + * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg-maintscript-helper commands + symlink_to_dir and dir_to_symlink that were added in dpkg 1.17.2. + Closes: #731723 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:46:26 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20131127) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: Exclude several more compressed file formats. + Closes: #730483 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:19:41 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20131110) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinit: Revert changes that added versioned dependency on + sysv-rc to support upstart, which later grew to a versioned dependency + on sysv-rc | file-rc, and which seems to want to continue growing + to list other init systems, which there currently seem to be far too + many of, for far too little benefit. + The sysv-rc dependency is already met in stable. + The file-rc dependency is not, so if someone cares about that, they + need to find a properly designed solution, which this was not. + Closes: #729248 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Nov 2013 15:23:29 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20131105) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix (horrible) make output parsing code to work with make 4.0. + Closes: #728800 Thanks, Julien Pinon + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:17:03 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20131104) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Joey Hess ] + * Debhelper is now team maintained. There is a new + debhelper-devel mailing list which maintainers of other dh_ + commands are encouraged to join also. + <https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debhelper-devel> + * dh_installchangelogs: Avoid installing binNMU changelog file + in --no-act mode. Closes: #726930 + + [ Modestas Vainius ] + * Update dh_installemacsen and related scripts to follow emacs + policy v2.0 (as of emacsen-common 2.0.5). Closes: #728620 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:34:21 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20130921) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: Call dh_installxfonts after dh_link, so that it will + notice fonts installed via symlinks. Closes: #721264 + * Fix FTBFS with perl 5.18. Closes: #722501 + * dh_installchangelogs: Add changelog.md to the list of common + changelog filenames. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:16:34 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20130720) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_python: Removed this deprecated and unused command. + Closes: #717374 + (Thanks, Luca Falavigna) + * Type fixes. Closes: #719216 + * dh_installinit: Fix a longstanding accidental behavior that caused + a file named debian/package to be installed as the init script. + Only fixed in v10 since packages might depend on this behavior. + Closes: #719359 + * dh_install, dh_installdocs, dh_clean: Fix uses of find -exec + which cause it to ignore exit status of the commands run. + Closes: 719598 + * makefile buildsystem: Tighten heuristic to detect if makefile target + exists. An error message that some other target does not exist just means + the makefile spaghetti has problems later on when run with -n, + but not that the called target didn't exist. Closes: #718121 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:46:25 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20130630) unstable; urgency=low + + * perl_build: Use -- long option names, for compatibility with + Module::Build::Tiny. Closes: #714544 + (Thanks, gregor herrmann) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jun 2013 14:20:51 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20130626) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: Run readelf in C locale. Closes: #714187 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:37:03 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20130624) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinit: Use absolute path for systemd tempfiles, + for compatibility with wheezy's systemd. Closes: #712727 + * makefile buildsystem: Added heuristic to catch false positive in + makefile target detection code. Closes: #713257 + Nasty make ... why won't it tell us what's in its pocketses? + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:28:18 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20130605) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installchangelogs: Fix bug preventing automatic installation of + upstream changelog. Closes: #711131 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:28:51 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20130604) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installchangelogs: No longer automatically converts html changelogs. + A plain text version can be provided as a second parameter, or it will + generate a file with a pointer to the html changelog if not. + html2text's reign of terror has ended. Closes: #562874 + * Allow building debhelper with USE_NLS=no to not require po4a to build. + Closes: #709557 + * Correct broken patch for #706923. + Closes: #707481 + * dh_installinit: Add appropriately versioned file-rc as an alternate + when adding misc:Depends for an invoke-rc.d that supports upstart + jobs. Closes: #709482 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:27:29 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20130518) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installchangelogs: Write the changelog entry used for a binNMU, + as flagged by binary-only=yes to a separate file, in order to work + around infelicities in dpkg's multiarch support. Closes: #708218 + (Thanks, Ansgar Burchardt) + * dh_installinit: Add versioned dependency on sysv-rc + when shipping upstart jobs. Closes: #708720 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2013 10:49:09 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20130516) unstable; urgency=low + + * Revert unsetting INSTALL_BASE. Closes: #708452 Reopens: #705141 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 May 2013 18:29:46 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20130509) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinit: Remove obsolete systemd-tmpfiles hack in postinst + autoscript. Closes: #707159 + * dh_installinfo: Stop inserting dependencies for partial upgrades + from lenny to squeeze. Closes: #707218 + * dh_compress, dh_perl: Avoid failing if the package build directory does + not exist. (Audited all the rest.) + * dh: As a workaround for anything not in debhelper that may rely + on debhelper command that is now skipped creating the package build + directory as a side effect, the directory is created when a command + is skipped. This workaround is disabled in compat level 10. + Closes: #707336 + * dh_auto_install: Create package build directory for those packages + whose makefile falls over otherwise. Closes: #707336 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 09 May 2013 10:34:56 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20130507) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: Skips running commands that it can tell will do nothing. + Closes: #560423 + (Commands that can be skipped are determined by the presence of + PROMISE directives within commands that provide a high-level + description of the command.) + * perl_makemaker: Unset INSTALL_BASE in case the user has it set. + Closes: #705141 + * dh_installdeb: Drop pre-dependency on dpkg for dpkg-maintscript-helper. + Closes: #703264 + * makefile buildsystem: Pass any parameters specified after -- when + running make -n to test for the existence of targets. + In some makefiles, the parameters may be necessary to enable a target. + Closes: #706923 + * Revert python2.X-minimal fix, because it was buggy. + Closes: #707111 (Reopens #683557) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 07 May 2013 13:20:48 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20130504) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_shlibdeps: Warn if -V flag is passed, to avoid it accidentally being + used here rather than in dh_makeshlibs. Closes: #680339 + * dh_lintian: Source overrides doc improvement. Closes: #683941 + * dh_installmime: No longer makes maintainer scripts run update-mime and + update-mime-database, that is now handled by triggers. Closes: #684689 + Thanks, Charles Plessy + * python distutils buildsystem: Propagate failure of pyversions. + Closes: #683551 Thanks, Clint Byrum + * python distutils buildsystem: When checking if a version of python is + installed, don't trust the presence of the executable, as + a python2.X-minimal package may provide it while not having + distutils installed. Closes: #683557, #690378 + * dh_icons: Improve documentation. Closes: #684895 + * Improve -X documentation. Closes: #686696 + * Support installing multiple doc-base files which use the same doc-id. + Closes: #525821 + * dh_installdocs: Support having the same document id in different binary + packages built from the same source. + Closes: #525821 Thanks, Don Armstrong + * dh_installdeb: Avoid unnecessary is_udeb tests. Closes: #691398 + * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #691557, #706314 + * dh_installinit: Support systemd. + Closes: #690399 Thanks, Michael Stapelberg + * Updated French man page translation. Closes: #692208 + * dh_icons: Reword description. Closes: #693100 + * Avoid find -perm +mode breakage caused by findutils 4.5.11, + by instead using -perm /mode. Closes: #700200 + * cmake: Configure with -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo + Closes: #701233 + * dh_auto_test: Avoid doing anything when cross-compiling. Closes: #703262 + * dh_testdir: Fix error message. Closes: #703515 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 04 May 2013 23:32:27 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20120909) unstable; urgency=low + + * autoscript() can now be passed a perl sub to run to s/// lines of + the script, which avoids problems with using sed, including potentially + building too long a sed command-line. This will become the recommended + interface in the future; for now it can be used by specific commands + such as dh_installxmlcatalogs that encounter the problem. + Closes: #665296 Thanks, Marcin Owsiany + * Updated Spanish man page translation. Closes: #686291 + * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #685538 + * Updated French man page translation. Closes: #685560 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:54:06 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20120830) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installcatalogs: Adjust catalog conffile conversion to avoid + dpkg conffile prompt when upgrading from a removed package. + Closes: #681194 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:04:10 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20120608) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: When there's an -indep override target without -arch, or vice versa, + avoid acting on packages covered by the override target when running + the command for packages not covered by it. Closes: #676462 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:15:48 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20120528) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installcatalogs: Turn /etc/sgml/$package.cat into conffiles + and introduce dependency on trigger-based sgml-base. Closes: #477751 + Thanks, Helmut Grohne + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:26 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20120523) unstable; urgency=low + + * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne + * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #674193 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:48 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895 + * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low + + * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448 + * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy. + This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing, + while yielding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern. + * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need + to revert these changes. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210 + Thanks, Guillem Jover + * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598 + * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low + + * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low + + * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813 + Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected + package is broken by this change. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Joey Hess ] + * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891 + * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901 + * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files + one. Closes: #668276 + + [ Steve Langasek ] + * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy + proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job, + instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper. + Closes: #577040 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low + + * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript(). + It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface. + Added to interface documentation. + Closes: #665263 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low + + * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake + generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741 + * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635 + * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript(). + Closes: #660794 + * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL, + in compat level v9. Closes: #662666 + Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch. + Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for + testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late + change to v9. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400 + +debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low + + * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default. + (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.) + * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility + level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done, + and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS. + * dh: --without foo,bar now supported. + * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400 + +debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low + + * Typo. Closes: #653006 + * Typo. Closes: #653339 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400 + +debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low + + * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert + * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9. + Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk + * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne + * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions + in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew? + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400 + +debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the + desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file + format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language + of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.) + Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731, + Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129 + * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221 + * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400 + +debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400 + +debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy. + Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport + may need to disable this. + Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985 + * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch + and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary + target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400 + +debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture) + for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes + * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400 + +debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including + multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279 + * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing. + Closes: #641361 + * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786 + * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed + to dh. Closes: #643069 + * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl + Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400 + +debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep + to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This + allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where + build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually + specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965 + . + Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch, + but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden + dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages. + . + Note that the old override_dh_command takes precedence over the new + overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been + too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an + old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only + acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be + a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided. + * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip + in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep. + * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the + rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets. + Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case. + * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping. + * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base. + * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586 + * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400 + +debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020 + Thanks, Gergely Nagy + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400 + +debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory + as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492 + Thanks, Jakub Wilk + * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames. + Closes: #638944 + Thanks, Jeroen Schot + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400 + +debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated. + Use override targets instead. + * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be + removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured. + This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles. + (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590 + * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by + DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885 + * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid + re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by + dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and + worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file. + (Example: numpy) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400 + +debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage + in v9 with a rules file with an explicit build target. Closes: #634784 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400 + +debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400 + +debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662 + * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106 + * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing + --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840 + * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155 + * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. + Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400 + +debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch, + build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules + without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between + the targets. Closes: #629139 + (Thanks, Roger Leigh) + * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name + in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458 + * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables + listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that + are already set to other values will not be changed. + Closes: #544844 + * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737 + * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826 + * Fix example. Closes: #627534 + * Fix error message. Closes: #628053 + * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display + the CMakeCache.txt. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400 + +debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400 + +debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078 + * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some + gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400 + +debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages + not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident + when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that + it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that + for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur + for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development, + and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446 + * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm} + Closes: #623709 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400 + +debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Joey Hess ] + * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used + in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate + build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it. + Closes: #615553 + * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more + changes may be added to that mode. + * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761 + * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch + directories to --libdir and --libexecdir. + * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and + make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support. + * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters: + If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing + multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want. + * Removed old example rules files. + * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files. + Closes: #604727 + + [ Valery Perrin ] + * update french translation. + * Fix french misspelling. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400 + +debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs + the overridden command. Closes: #613418 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400 + +debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and + triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118. + (Thanks, Loïc Minier) + * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that + --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run + in the override target are marked as running as part of the override, + and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that + commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400 + +debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Joey Hess ] + * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when + python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in + the shebang line. Closes: #589759 + * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342 + * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679 + * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne. + Closes: #600913 + * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files, + which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used + to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to + dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443 + (Thanks, Colin Watson) + * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883 + (Thanks, David Prévot) + * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188 + * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command, + to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall + target fails. Closes: #601037 + * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages. + Closes: #601204 + * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561 + * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and + install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563 + (Thanks, Roger Leigh) + * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages + to be listed. + * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are + only installed into the first package listed in debian/control. + Closes: #606036 + * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with + (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553 + * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation. + Closes: #608907 + * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d + Closes: #610340 + (Thanks, Steve Langasek) + + [ Valery Perrin ] + * update french translation. + * Fix french misspelling. + * French translation update after massive man page typography + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400 + +debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Carsten Hey ] + * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574 + + [ Joey Hess ] + * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400 + +debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400 + +debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem, + since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message + introduced by the fix to #527990. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400 + +debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more + changes are planned for that mode. + * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section. + * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link + target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of + Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.) + * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k. + * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command. + * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package + (genesis) still uses them. + * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files, + avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328 + * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a + file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749 + * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s) + subdirectories. Closes: #521258 + * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper + commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.) + * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared + libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be + used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also + means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does + not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which + may break some packages. Closes: #557603 + * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter. + (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@") + This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper + commands. (See #570039) + * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker. + Closes: #578805 + * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails. + Closes: #586065 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400 + +debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low + + * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837 + (Raphael Geissert) + * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero, + in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions + in control file or debhelper config files. + * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400 + +debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low + + * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling + dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly + do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400 + +debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop + calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400 + +debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885) + * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target. + * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400 + +debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low + + * Updated French translation. + * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility + with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503 + * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when + not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags). + Closes: #570373 + * Typo. Closes: #571968 + * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default + to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed + failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the + target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior + can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only + packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change + is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077 + * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702 + * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package. + Closes: #574351 + * dh: Improve documentation. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400 + +debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low + + * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile + that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null + when testing for the existence of a makefile target. Closes: #570443 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500 + +debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such + as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500 + +debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586 + * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500 + +debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269 + * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to + something with a space in it. Closes: #563557 + * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets. + * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring + options that they do not support. + * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs. + This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands + that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773 + (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.) + * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840 + * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code. + Closes: #567737 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500 + +debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands. + Closes: #560421 + * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid + dh running several commands. Closes: #560600 + * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275 + * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and + --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where + xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged. + (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan) + * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary + call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500 + +debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building + without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius) + * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused + dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and + broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500 + +debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * Typo. Closes: #558654 + * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is + installed. Closes: #558782 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500 + +debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still + be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because + some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805) + * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505 + * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file. + Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500 + +debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurs when testing existence + of a target in a certain horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop + after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced + with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500 + +debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes. + * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6. + * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500 + +debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500 + +debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc) + now supports parallel building by default, as specified via + DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805 + * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control + or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel + building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of + parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. + * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when + debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel + mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does). + * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support. + * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting + options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any + time soon.) Closes: #554509 + * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7). + Closes: #548382 + * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4. + (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899 + * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a + document id. Closes: #555677 + * Typo. Closes: #555659 + * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite. + Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius) + * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make + it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders. + Closes: #556384 + * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be + autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to + makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805 + (Modestas Vainius) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500 + +debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Valery Perrin ] + * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703 + * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile + * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure, + dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown, + dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list + * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french + translation (#494300 part 2) + + [ Joey Hess ] + * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc. + Closes: #546683 + * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636 + * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force + to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation + of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang + lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400 + +debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * Man page typo. Closes: #545443 + * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483 + (It was only run once due to logging.) + * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link + documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible + than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink. + Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson + * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before + dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers + python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293 + * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev + to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev + is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400 + +debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Steve Langasek ] + * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility + symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035. + + [ Joey Hess ] + * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041 + * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400 + +debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low + + * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package + is arch all. This was, surprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s + flag with arch all/any packages. + * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users + do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package + that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that + situation. Closes: #540794 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400 + +debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op. + Closes: #543364 + * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept + everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what + it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499 + * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands, + by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface. + Closes: #543392 + (Modestas Vainius) + * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override + the default. Closes: #538201 + (Modestas Vainius) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400 + +debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location + /lib/udev/rules.d/ + * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless + they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override + the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by + Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge -- + I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do + that.) + * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z". + If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN. + * Above Closes: #491117 + * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into + /etc/udev/rules.d/. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400 + +debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Colin Watson ] + * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302 + + [ Joey Hess ] + * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270 + * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845 + * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400 + +debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Bernd Zeimetz ] + * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports. + To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass + --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python + versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools. + Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report. + Closes: #539324 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400 + +debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch + target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the + sequence addon interface. See #540124. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400 + +debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400 + +debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean + when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row). + Closes: #539848 + * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976 + * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable + maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400 + +debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites. + It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400 + +debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200 + +debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable. + Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes), + --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake + and ant. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200 + +debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low + + * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200 + +debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low + + [ Bernd Zeimetz ] + * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python + versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are + created by using `python' first during build and install. + Closes: #520834 + Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends + on them. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200 + +debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low + + * Merged debhelper 7.2.24. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400 + +debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low + + * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021 + * Merged debhelper 7.2.22. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400 + +debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low + + * Merged debhelper 7.2.21. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400 + +debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low + + * Merged debhelper 7.2.20. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400 + +debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low + + * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support, + contributed by Modestas Vainius + - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source + directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere + than the top level directory. Closes: #530597 + - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build + directory to use for out of source building, for build systems + that support it. Closes: #480577 + - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected + build system, or force use of a third-party class. + - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build + systems. + - Adds support for cmake. + - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently + instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile. + Closes: #534332 + - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these + large changes.. + * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands + that use them. The options are: + --sourcedir, --destdir + If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options, + they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init(). + * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it, + and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper + commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is + explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by + default. Closes: #537140 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo + is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped + from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low + + * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports + GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory + from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to + a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested. + Closes: #534565 + * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused + it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build + directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps + prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226 + * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py + to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low + + * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands + via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt + warning or deprecation message. + * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into + maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency + via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while + dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION, + the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and + END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be + some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that. + Closes: #534639, #357434 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries. + (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701 + * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these + might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing + to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg. + Closes: #530253 + * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806 + * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration + from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL. + Closes: #528235 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change + Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: Support --with addon,addon,... + Closes: #528178 + * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL, + to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies. + Closes: #528235 + * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch + file support. Closes: #494914 + (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464 + * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure + parameters. Closes: #527256 + * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL, + in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating + the .packlist file. Closes: #527990 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644. + (Patch from #459548) + * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221 + * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly + useful to disable the default python-support addon). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils + uses triggers. Closes: #523474 + (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable) + * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh + binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567 + * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius) + Closes: #520615 + * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942 + * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled + by triggers). Closes: #521181 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete + dh_python. + * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts + to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423 + * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919 + Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus + omits packages when triggered, unfortunately. I hope its behavior will + change. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400 + +debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in + stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer + scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467) + * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call + doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable. + * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius. + Closes: #326874 + * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617 + * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation + of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937 + * Compat level 4 is now deprecated. + * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655 + * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentally added here). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500 + +debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf + syntax, as required by new module-init-tools. + * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle + cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade. + * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki: + - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another + conffile's name. + - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500 + +debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low + + * Merged debhelper 7.0.52. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500 + +debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low + + * Merged debhelper 7.0.50. + * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754 + * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180 + * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923 + * Improve error messages when child commands fail. + * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type + fields in dpkg-gencontrol. + * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename + when calling dpkg-gencontrol. + * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to + include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500 + +debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low + + * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896 + * Fix some docs that referred to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir. + Closes: #504742 + * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804 + * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore + such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back + to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific + options. + (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this + warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500 + +debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low + + * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending + with ".txt". Closes: #498460 + * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg + complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666 + * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836 + * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options + by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long. + Closes: #370823 + * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command + that uses them. Affected options are: + -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m, + --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start, + --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest, + --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params, + --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d, + --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing, + --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with + * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options, + they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init(). + * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not + use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown + option. This will be converted back to an error later. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings. + Closes: #517617 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500 + +debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500 + +debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low + + * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable, + to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will + use. + * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run + for a specific debhelper command in a sequence. + (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.) + * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these + eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand + than the old method. + * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets + with dh anymore. + * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B, + which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit + rules (see bug #509756). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500 + +debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Per Olofsson ] + * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean. + + [ Joey Hess ] + * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719 + * Typo. Closes: #493062 + * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX + if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886 + * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip + empty files. Closes: #490937 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low + + * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to + disable it. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages + being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the + source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or + debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any + packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets. + Closes: #487938 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in + the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it + always falls back to looking in debian/tmp. + * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116 + * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327 + * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and + dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but + it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439 + * Typo fix. Closes: #486464 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc. + Closes: #484772 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647 + * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a + daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping + its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded + while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default + in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060 + * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191 + * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200 + * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface. + * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands + can use to insert them into a command sequence. + (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".) + * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands. + So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from + cli-common. + * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support + sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid + breaking backwards compatibility. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installxfonts: Fix precedence problem that exposes a new warning + message in perl 5.10. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * Convert copyright file to new format. + * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475 + * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933 + * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened. + * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command + run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build + daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs + dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that + only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting + logging by dh_listpackages. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is + run and there are no packages of that type. + * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker + packages to avoid interactive prompts. + * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build. + * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with + python packages. + * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather + than just looking for some predefined common cases. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in.. + * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified, + and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400 + +debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence. + This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3 + lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's + needed. + * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure, + Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same + options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options. + * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either + running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems + planned but not yet implemented.) + * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check + if the Makefile has such a target. + * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean, + or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up. + * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using + setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by + MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned + but not yet implemented.) + * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new + recommended default, especially when using dh. + * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for + files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This + allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any + special parameters. + * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed + therein. + * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files. + * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using + all the new toys. + * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not + necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391 + * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be + deprecated later). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400 + +debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and + also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of + extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400 + +debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed + pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed + filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400 + +debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400 + +debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400 + +debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not + just those installed by the program. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400 + +debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only + lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765 + (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500 + +debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yield more reproducible file contents. + The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the + time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100 + * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completely random + (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500 + +debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation. + Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson) + * Depend on a new enough version of man-db. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500 + +debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314. + * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix. + * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500 + +debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant + with policy. Closes: #461392 + * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug, + which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at, + only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging + symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best + implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500 + +debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code. + Closes: #460340, #460351 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500 + +debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path. + * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to + install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is + enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234 + * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500 + +debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114 + * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now + much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226 + * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd + to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps + has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the + package build directory won't work. + * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to + dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't + affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224 + * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S. + * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude + mode. Closes: #459426 + * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility + level. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept + the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low + + * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications. + Closes: #452337 + * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages. + Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051 + * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to + properly support includes. Closes: #452717 + * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs + isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low + + * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608 + * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978 + Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8). + Symbols files can be downloaded from mole: + http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low + + * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository. + * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear + about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759 + * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes. + * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to + call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing + debian/package.triggers files. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing + a file with the same name. Closes: #445638 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low + + * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream + tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config + files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no + good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily + get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian + maintainer. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting + debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop + files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831 + * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists. + Closes: #380314 + * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package. + Closes: #442480 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. + Closes: #437337 + * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572 + * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files. + * Typo. Closes: #441272 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache. + Closes: #432824 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low + + * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach. + Closes: #432321 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks + to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier. + Closes: #329460 + * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update + existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is + updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full + plan. + * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from + dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318 + * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since + usr/X11R6/bin now points to there. + * Update urls to web page. + * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control + file. (Thanks Wakko) + * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code + rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including: + - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not + - typo in alternatives call + - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name + Closes: #420158 + * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and + fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low + + * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet + that was accidentally re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout. + Closes: #419849 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix a typo in postinst-udev. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not + using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most + packages. + * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand + new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version + that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614 + * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify + will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537 + * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving + the rules file to the new location on upgrade. + * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files + w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it.. + * Do script fragment reversal only in v6, since it can break certain + third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial + package install. Closes: #415717 + * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than + preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses + dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init + script and then remove the python files. + * Introducing beginning of v6 mode. + * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for + x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers + probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the + slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of + /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963 + * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work + the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in + v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old + buggy behavior. Closes: #242834 + * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250 + * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have + /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Valery Perrin ] + * Correct typo in french translation + + [ Joey Hess ] + * Typo. Closes: #400571 + * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask + influencing it. + * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB- + too. + * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing. + Closes: #406921, #381940 + * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files. + Closes: #404785 + * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707 + * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden + away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905 + * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854 + * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros + can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be + specified). Closes: #381851 + * Misc minor changes. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Valery Perrin ] + * Update french translation with recent changes in dh_link and + dh_installinfo + + [ Joey Hess ] + * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to + ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Joey Hess ] + * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155 + + [ Valery Perrin ] + * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 + * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs + + [ Joey Hess ] + * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper, + in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions. + Closes: #395495 + * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536 + * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section + information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION + on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium + + [ Valery Perrin ] + * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python + + [ Joey Hess ] + * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Valery Perrin ] + * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules + + [ Joey Hess] + * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of + a difficult situation. + * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604 + * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4. + * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found. + The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of + everything dh_python used to do in this situation. + * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474 + * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean. + * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150 + lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better. + * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Update of dh_python + - when building for a non-standard Python version, generate more + reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y" + Closes: #375576 + - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948 + - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions + were listed in XS-Python-Version. + - fix use of uninitialized value. Closes: #374776 + - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936 + + -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200 + +debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Update of dh_python + - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference + between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp + - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files + - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for + dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback. + - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value + instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a + specific python version. Closes: #373853 + - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the + maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the + provides. + - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new + policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the + new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in + the not too-distant future). + DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy. + DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy. + * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of + dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and + thus made the build fail. + + -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200 + +debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833 + + -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200 + +debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module + package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just + running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run + depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers> + The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the + package. Closes: #301424 + * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade, + in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming + fonts). Closes: #372686 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Valery Perrin ] + * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts + + [ Joey Hess ] + * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011 + * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support + the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things + like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082 + * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by + above, but already depends on that. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping + language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like + codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645 + * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in + old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and + update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Valery Perrin ] + * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts + + [ Joey Hess ] + * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix + an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even + before udev is installed. Closes: #363307 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Valery Perrin ] + * Update french translation with recent changes in dh_installxfonts, + dh_link and dh_compress manpages + * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in + new version (0.24.1). + * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1). + * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning. + + [ Joey Hess ] + * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure + they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820 + * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to + /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page + accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the + new directory on their own. + * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028 + * Fix broken directory removal code. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low + + * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I + really the first person to run into the case of a source package that + builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case, + the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some + other arch, and debhelper will now support this. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200 + +debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to + /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old + location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore. + * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils. + * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/ + * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200 + +debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400 + +debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Joey Hess ] + * Typo. Closes: #358904 + * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182 + * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails + Closes: #359020 + + [ Valery Perrin ] + * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in + dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high + + * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maintscripts that used + || exit 0 instead of the intended + || exit $? + due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be + ignored. Closes: #337664 + + Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many + packages. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Joey Hess ] + * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri. + + [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ] + * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in + the dh_installdebconf manpage + * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting + a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1 + * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the + source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough + version. Closes: #350607 + * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf + templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are + found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on + debconf-utils. Closes: #331796 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file + via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471 + * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472 + * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation + Closes: #349995 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low + + * Minor bug fix from last release. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page + language guessing. Closes: #193221 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low + + * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521 + * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to + "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and + prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such + as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are + via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change + was originally made.) Closes: #349070 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of + python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only + modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet. + Closes: #347758 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073 + * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke + --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only + set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files. + Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream + and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting + it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980 + * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any + reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op.. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Joey Hess ] + * debhelper svn moved to alioth + * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding. + * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the + link. Closes: #346405 + * dh_link: add special case handling for link to / + + [ Josselin Mouette ] + * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private + modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the + number of packages needing to transition together with python. + * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used! + * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide + defaults for a package without patching the schemas. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation. + Closes: #345291 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * French translation update. Closes: #344133 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented + errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not + modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules. + Closes: #339658 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages). + Closes: #341289 + * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being + installed. Closes: #342033 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update French translation, and also update + the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713 + * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name, + such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch. + Closes: #338555 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various + script fragments. + * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories + in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous, + evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules. + * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check + ok. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog + before releasing. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500 + +debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low + + * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility + level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5 + is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows + adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making + the switch as soon as this version reaches testing. + * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat + level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the + "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906 + * Deprecate v3. + * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500 + +debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low + + * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish + translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314 + * add.fr update. Closes: #335727 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400 + +debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok + in standard man dirs. + * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400 + +debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400 + +debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs. + Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too. + Closes: #331237 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400 + +debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation. + Closes: #329132 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400 + +debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks! + Closes: #328791 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200 + +debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if + LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set. + * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400 + +debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * NMU with maintainer approval. + * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script, + which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2, + where it can be found. Closes: #327209 + + -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200 + +debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400 + +debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400 + +debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude + mode. Closes: #324161 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400 + +debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file + list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a + behavior change. Closes: #249815 + * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove directories in + /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy. + Closes: #319181 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400 + +debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command + and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used + before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which + is necessary for sanity. + * Dh_Lib.pm: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with + complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle + breakage. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400 + +debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high + + * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069 + Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400 + +debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964 + * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400 + +debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix typo in dh_strip. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400 + +debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low + + * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is + still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is + released, so use at your own risk. + * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package + that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on. + Closes: #230588 + * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of + lines are ignored. Closes: #206422 + * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162 + * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs. + * Use v5 to build debhelper. + * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2. + * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING. + * Add another test-case for dh_link. + * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right + site-packages directories. Closes: #312661 + * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more, + including twice per config file line now.. + * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier + and simplify the rules file. + * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816 + * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618 + Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in + debian currently. + * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or + earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low + + * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1). + * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low + + * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810 + Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low + + * The infinite number of monkeys release. + * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low + + * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052 + * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by + update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically + generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that + should fail an installation. Closes: #165400 + * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko + (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low + + * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions + in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such + substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657 + * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and + dh_installdebconf. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500 + +debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low + + * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation. + * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158 + * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib. + Closes: #295383 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500 + +debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for installing + "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719 + * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames. + * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all + any more. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500 + +debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update + * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefiles from 600 to + 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357 + * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500 + +debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500 + +debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find. + Closes: #284832 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500 + +debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update + * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857 + * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is + unknown. Closes: #282924 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500 + +debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps. + Closes: #283413 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500 + +debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low + + * Spanish man page updates. + * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode. + Closes: #280676 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. + * dh_desktop: reindent + * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications + with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low + + * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH + + * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH + + * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300 + +debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low + + * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367 + * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378 + * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300 + +debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low + + * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more + (#258901) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low + + * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable. + * Strip epoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low + + * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382 + * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate + schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette) + * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas + are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette) + * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2 + * dh_gconf: fix inaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not + killed. + * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since + the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after + it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745 + * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT. + For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211 + * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it + in the postinst. Closes: #253112 + * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/ + for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the + etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495 + * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated. + * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters + in the others, and added a few new tests. + * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing + relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157 + * Warn if debian/compat is empty. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May. + Closes: #209090 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624 + * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300 + +debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it. + This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling + sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844 + * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400 + +debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500 + +debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500 + +debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500 + +debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make. + * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try + to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavior with globs + passed in from the shell. See bug #234105 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500 + +debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace, + etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500 + +debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i), + but occasionally right and necessary. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500 + +debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918 + * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703 + - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs. + - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5. + * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove. + Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500 + +debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands + "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for + details. + * Dh_Lib.pm: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename + * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension + * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol + * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs, + dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs + * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary. + * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms, + or prerms for udebs. Do not substitute #DEBHELPER# tokens in + postinst scripts for udebs. + * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options + mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils. + Closes: #231382 + * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include + "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code. + Closes: #228272 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends + setting. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076 + * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963 + * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882 + * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update. + Closes: #225337 + * Copyright update. + * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness + knows, I need another copy of that in subversion.. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low + + * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low + + * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617 + * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low + + * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test. + Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not + intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense + for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog. + Closes: #216099 + * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog + changelog.Debian. + * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if + update-menus is not. Closes: #220576 + * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low + + * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718 + * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links. + Closes: #218136 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745 + * Updated Spanish man page translations for: + debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman + dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip + Closes: #218718 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low + + * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low + + * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip + support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and + dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670 + * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated + -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the + associated -dbg packages. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026 + * Fix misspelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low + + * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567 + * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the + advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low + + * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends. + * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename + Closes: #208753 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low + + * Typo. Closes: #207999 + * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low + + * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras + Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team. + Closes: #199261 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893 + * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low + + * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing. + Closes: #112950 + * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed + files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169 + * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit, + dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify + the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example, + dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to + etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844 + (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.) + * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above. + * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages. + * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory. + Closes: #206689 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target + is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245 + * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low + + * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112. + * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only + shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled + .py[co] found. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package + use. Patch from Josselin, of course. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717 + * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed + out section number. Closes: #204731 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*. + Closes: #204559 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low + + * Typo, Closes: #203907 + * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only + removal. Closes: #204286 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify + renaming. Closes: #203548 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low + + * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819 + * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that. + * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200 + +debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200 + +debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in + case dh_clean is run on one package at a time. + * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to + deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native + packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native + packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the section number + in the TH line. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679 + * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link + scan. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest each time through the glob loop. + It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton. + * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case + added by me.) + * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021 + * Add aph's name to copyright file too. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low + + * Typo fixes from Adam Garside. + * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example. + Closes: #194531 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the + python in stable, version 2.1.3+. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes + it break hard links (see #188663). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757 + * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low + + * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page. + Closes: #184411 + * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or + debconf-mergetemplates + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800 + +debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse + pod2man. Closes: #184013 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low + + * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7. + * Typo, Closes: #183267 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low + + * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit. + * Update debhelper(1). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low + + * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to + stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to + prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804 + * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of + usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602 + * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521 + * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to + the shell. Closes: #178524 + * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By + Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low + + * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want + undocumented.7 links anymore. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low + + * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278 + * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524 + * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch + indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I + used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser. + Untested. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some + files from installation. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283 + * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful + for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra + params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette + <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low + + * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low + + * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs. + Closes: #169138 + * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing. + (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.) + Closes: #168751 + * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low + + * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739 + * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make + --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but + people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no + other sane meaning. Closes: #168751 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low + + * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421 + * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf + confmodule. (Cf #106070) + * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500 + +debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low + + * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?) + See #164863 + * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so + omitted. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low + + * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon. + Closes: #163569 + * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there. + * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated + man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages. + Closes: #163534 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files, + and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing + practice. Closes: #163303 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories. + Closes: #163128 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * The "reverse hangover" release. + * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS. + Closes: #162493 + * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files. + * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine + without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things + if dpkg-gencontrol changes. + * Various improvements to debhelper(1). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This + will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and + XS in them. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND. + Closes: #159155 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior + if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not + needed. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl + Closes: #156243 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if + --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped + with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was + not running for some reason. This makes transitions to using the flag + easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were + right. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * Typo, Closes: #155323 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a + shlibs.local. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400 + +debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low + + * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm. + Do not use this version of debhelper for woody backports! + * Removed dh_installxaw. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low + + * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as + NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make + these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but + only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new + news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the + abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low + + * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to + dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends + Closes: #152117 + * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find + useful. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low + + * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X. + This makes it properly install symlinks, cf my rpm bug. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low + + * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978 + * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the + right thing. Closes: #150644 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low + + * Stupid, evil typo. + * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low + + * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens. + Closes: #150403 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages. + * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more + than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in + some cases. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed debconf-utils dependency. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in + /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded + paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so + will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh. + Closes: #148172 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908 + * Documented what globbing is allowed. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its + name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this + sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * Removing perl warning message. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories + from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb + will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree. + * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for + --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to + debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847 + * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573 + * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate. + Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_install: delay globbing until after destinations have been found. + Closes: #143234 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to + debconf-mergetemplate. + * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion. + * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400 + +debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited + from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained + it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment: + dh_install, which ... + - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649 + - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files + mess, as it uses debian/install. + - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037 + - doesn't use tar, thus no error reporting problems. Closes: #112538 + - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at + all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404 + - supports -X. Closes: #116902 + - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this + bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026 + - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I + designed it seemingly independently. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383 + * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above. + * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and + other minor changes. + * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and + bad design, you are encouraged to just use dh_install instead. + * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039 + * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of + course there's -X ..) + * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks + and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent. + * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occurred to + me before.. + * use v4 for building debhelper itself + * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing. + (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into + many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted + for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are + using.) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400 + +debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400 + +debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low + + * Typo, Closes: #139176 + * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500 + +debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fix to #99169 was accidentally reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500 + +debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500 + +debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500 + +debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500 + +debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works. + I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings + now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded, + which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break + anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes. + Closes: #40649 + * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well. + * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500 + +debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500 + +debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * Typo, Closes: #132454 + * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500 + +debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get + upset. Closes: #131322 + + -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500 + +debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say + what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big + advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command + line, as well as in debian/rules. + * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d. + This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and + earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking + things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy). + * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable, + ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend + on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to + that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable + should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends + on, supplementing the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars. + Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi + <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over. + Closes: #76352 + * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500 + +debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * Improved dh_installxfonts some more: + - Better indenting of generated code. + - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500 + +debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205 + * dh_installxfonts: + - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page. + - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the + postinst will avoid running program that aren't available. Closes: #131053 + - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay! + - Pass only the last component of the directory name to + update-fonts-*, since that's what they prefer now. + - Other changes, should fully comply with Debian X font policy now. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500 + +debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546 + * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500 + +debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low + + * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it + is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break + compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4 + mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that + omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this + change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary + compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned + deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some + reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497 + * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message + is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages. + * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the + distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used + by: 3 packages (bugs filed). + * Added references to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978 + (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on + dh-make.) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500 + +debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500 + +debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird + characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491 + * fixed dh_testdir man page + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500 + +debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low + + * Typo, Closes: #122679 + * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770 + * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500 + +debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low + + * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500 + +debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972 + * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035 + * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether + this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x + a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046 + * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control, + Closes: #118805 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500 + +debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low + + * More informative error, Closes: #118767 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500 + +debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735), + and modified docs (Closes: #115733). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work + properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed + filenames. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low + + * Typo, Closes: #114135 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in + the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier. + Closes: #92826 + Also some indentation fixes. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532 + * Use -x to test for existence of init scripts, rather then -e since + we'll be running them, Closes: #109692 + * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files + specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file. + Closes: #106514, #85520 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low + + * Typo, Closes: #104405 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low + + * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low + + * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low + + * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low + + * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll + change it in debhelper v4.. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low + + * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics + which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low + + * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils + is not essential. Closes: #100430 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low + + * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars + data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars. + (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated + data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged + with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819 + * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented + debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certain name for some + internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify + that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't + be at all surprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking + a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it! + (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be + prefixed with ".debhelper") + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that + look just like shared libs, but are not. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versions of debhelper. + Closes: #99169 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces + and quotes. This was some historical cruft that deals with splitting up + the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set + of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that + support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting + of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever + program those options go to. So, for example, + dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you + would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do + something complex. Closes: #89311 + * Made escape_shell output a lot better. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low + + * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames + and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a + purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an + undocumented interface. Closes: #95387 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time + through loop. Closes: #98598 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low + + * Missing semi-colon. + * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against + this (dh_* should be called, really). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is + already set. Newer fakeroot sets it, and clobbering their settings + breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the + LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinfo: doc enhancement, Closes: #97515 + * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the + bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low + + * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a + corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low + + * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete + any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-* + (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low + + * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs. + The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who + were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a + whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400 + +debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_perl: updates from bod: + - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies + (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1). + - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700 + +debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and + make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700 + +debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low + + * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700 + +debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low + + * Typo, Closes: #92407 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700 + +debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800 + +debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800 + +debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e + to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800 + +debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look + for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3, + liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which + contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were + followed. Closes: #85483 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800 + +debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code. + Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon + packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500 + +debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture. + I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for + the hurd work. Closes: #88494 + * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321 + * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these + and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but + it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities + it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependencies + up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is + the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the + change and packages don't need to update their build dependencies. + Closes: #88464, #77743 + * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and + the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants + us to deal with that gracefully. + * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes: + #88426 + * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197 + * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for + a while, Closes: #51225 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800 + +debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_perl update + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800 + +debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like + a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800 + +debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually + quite a bad bug). + * dh_installman: fixed variable scoping error, so file conversions + should work now. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800 + +debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and + policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages + don't make packlist files. + * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current + debhelper coding standards. + * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps. + * Version number increase to meet perl policy. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800 + +debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man. + * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800 + +debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages. + It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where + based on .TH section field and filename extension. I recommend everyone + begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's + evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time.. + Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816 + * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility, + but is mildly deprecated. + * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependencies instead. + * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop + using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report? + Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you + if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at + switching to statoverrides.. + * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the + latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice + thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right? + * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running + dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document + has really outlives its usefulness, I removed it too. Use dh-make + instead. + * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6 + directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into + `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this + is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt + a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs. + Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that + dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.) + * dh_undocumented now the same too now. + * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/ + files. + * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case + variable names, pod man pages). + * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for + debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the + version number appropriately (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had + planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-) + * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large + number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release + touches every file in this package, so be careful out there.. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal, + Closes: #84974 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson + <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643 + I may change this to a dependency at some point in the future, + since one debconf command needs the package to work. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extension, + they were previously ignored. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because + dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than + debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and + sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371: + * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium + + * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead, + packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in + the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done + to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to + conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50). + * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before. + If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man + page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build. + If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that + it is an obsolete program. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560 + + -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed perl warning, Closes: #80242 + + -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm, + Closes: #80209 + * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * Spelling patch. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * typo: Closes, #78567 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens: + - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc, + begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of + course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain + files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just + to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on + data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so". + Closes: #78139 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian, + after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package + itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly + minor" change after all. Never underestimate the annoyance of + backwards-compatibility. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800 + +debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low + + * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just + turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility: + - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154 + Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you + use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many + old rules files have the ordering backwards. + - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as + conffiles. + - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like + debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in + non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages. + Closes: #34628 + * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with + caution.. + * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and + a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt + and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs + should now be raised to severity important.. + * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been + deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800 + +debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low + + * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two + packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry... + Closes: #77604 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800 + +debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low + + * Typo, Closes: #77441 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800 + +debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low + + * Completed the fix from the last version. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800 + +debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low + + * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800 + +debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low + + * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3 + is broken upstream. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800 + +debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*", + but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with + rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the + major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major + version of such libraries, so -m must be used. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800 + +debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800 + +debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as + this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependency on + dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything. + * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack + from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to + make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility. + * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a + much better way. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800 + +debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already + been unregistered then, and a warning will result. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800 + +debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800 + +debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename. + This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian + installer. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used + debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since + there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not + have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I + think this Closes: #17111, #51985 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir. + Closes: #75434 + * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those + in: + . + debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low + . + * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey). + * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for + $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages). + Closes: #53381 + . + -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100 + . + I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed + the TODO entry about it. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code. + Closes: #75283 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low + + * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the + shlibs file, and lintian complains. Added some hackery that should + prevent that. Closes: #73052 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low + + * Typo, Closes: #72932 + * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are + shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like + "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but + that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these + are CVS files.. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value + (this appears to be logal). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it + does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_ + handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with + proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular + kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before + debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453 + * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by + debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to + debian/filename from all over the man pages. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was + silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few + versions. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line + showing it is doing that when in verbose mode. + * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing. + rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats + of the hack. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X + 4.0. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700 + +debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low + + * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of + changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That + development stalled after only the most important change was made, + although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree. + In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my + warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without + notice until v2 is complete. + * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible + changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that + by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses + debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages; + debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is + very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone + switch to v2. + * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default. + * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used. + * Added a few notes for people still using v1. + * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low + + * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my + standard.. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low + + * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people + are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low + + * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in + the source package. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low + + * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with + "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any + of the supported stuff should be called if the postinst is called for + error unwinds. Closes: #66673 + * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete, + Closes: #66670 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmodules will now install modules even if etc/modutils already + exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289 + * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This + is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory. + Closes: #66278 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template + files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on + debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to + just skip files that end in -\d+. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that + has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixes for perl 5.6. + * Spelling fixes. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low + + * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to + depend on the build and install targets. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low + + * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on + configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low + + * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message. + Closes: #62058 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low + + * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much + modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method, + update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete) + * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case. + * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also, + the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And, + dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should + start using it. + * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads + debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames + specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts + on. I can't believe this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring + problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3 + sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-) + * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low + + * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low + + * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the + right place. Closes: #55065 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low + + * Downgraded fileutils dependency just a bit for the Hurd folks. + Closes: #54620 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low + + * Make all examples rules files executable. + * Copyright date updates. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low + + * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown + --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work + in slink. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths, + Closes: #53029 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low + + * Type fix, Closes: #52652 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low + + * Corrected misspellings, Closes: #52013 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple + hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as + files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first + link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration + of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed, + leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid + bits until all files have been registered. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmanpages: + - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely + <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268 + - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch. + - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it. + * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1: + - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is + useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100 + - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it + easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't + otherwise change the result at all. + * doc/TODO: + - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects + exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed + against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program. + dh_installdebfiles has been deprecated for nearly 2 years now.. + * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information. + Fear makechangelog. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to + act on files that don't exist. + * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a + html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain + text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx. + (Closes: #51099) + * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to + U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to + dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without + fiddling to get the quoting right, etc. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low + + * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low + + * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low + + * Oh, the build dependencies include all of debhelper's regular + dependencies as well, since it builds using itself. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added build dependencies to this package. That was easy; it just uses + perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things + in base. + * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete. + * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper, + you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that + LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This + should make it easier for library packages that also build binary + packages to be built with correct dependencies. Closes: #36751 + * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative + image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress + does not compress. Closes: #41733 + * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case + insensitively. + * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root. + Closes: #46039 + * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching. + Closes: #48931 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800 + +debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by + any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low + + * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low + + * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from + Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738 + * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu + <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684 + I made some changes, though: + - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl. + - I removed all the verbosity from the postinst script fragment, since + that is a clear violation of policy. + - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because + this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency. + - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the + dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on + us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorily anyway. + - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some. + - I realize this isn't following the recommendations made in Brando^Hen's + font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-) + - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories + as I can. + - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low + + * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to + 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink, + leaves it alone, assuming that the maintainer knows what they're doing + and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package. + (Closes: #46183) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low + + * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundary words be skipped. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are + not idempotent. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if + you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make + run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work, + though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287 + * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target. + Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-* + target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the + maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low + + * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package + purge. + * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This + seems conceptually a little cleaner. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low + + * Minor changes to rules.multi2. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing, + don't do anything, rather than crashing. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling + install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608) + * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependencies, broke in + last version. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to + dpkg-shlibdeps. + * dh_installdeb: debconf support. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low + + * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see.. + * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file + for the dependencies to be generated. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7 + page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the + existence of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though + a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test + shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it + is. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864 + * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs + files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low + + * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section + contained '/' characters. Doesn't now. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that.. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low + + * FHS compliance. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>. + For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution, + dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though. + * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732. + * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in + http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html, + to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to + /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in + /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make + the symlink. I'm considering more intelligent handing of this case. + * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will + use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to + modify other files in your package that reference the old locations. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low + + * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to + a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with + DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command + anymore. + * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique. + * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's. + * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that + works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows + building of single binary packages independently, via binary-<package> + targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper + commands. + * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2 + years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names. + Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low + + * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back. + Closes: #43652 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low + + * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with + my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new + debhelper is built. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low + + * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed + for building debhelper. + * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name. + Closes: #43148. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed makefile commit target. + * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low + + * Checked all of debhelper into CVS. + * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now) + * Skip CVS dir when running tests. + * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script. + Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are + missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so + it's always available. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low + + * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base + files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from + Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead + of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow + specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl + modules. (Closes: #42171) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch + misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low + + * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f, + not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named, + say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this + ever happening, but it pays to be safe. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we + shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package. + (Closes: #41689) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low + + * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance + (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to + update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependency. (Closes: + #41174) + * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix + multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of + info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626) + * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz, + because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessible + at that name. + * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff + there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or + decide to not have a clean transition), dh_compress now compresses + various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output + things if CDPATH is set. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low + + * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it + seems to make sense for the transition. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're + using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be + cleaned up. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low + + * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a + -d flag that makes it add a dependency on the appropriate perl-XXX-base + package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low + + * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at + that version. (Closes: #40589) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low + + * If you're going to use v2, it's recommended you call + "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2. + * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest + supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps + there will be a debhelper v3 some day... + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low + + * Actually include doc/v2 this time round. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700 + +debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low + + * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just + barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-) + * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary + build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except + dh_movefiles still uses it.) + * debhelper.1: documented this. + * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the + current compatibility level is equal to that number. + * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that. + * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2. + * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with + debstd after all. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700 + +debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low + + * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2. + * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes. + * README: mention doc/v2 + * debhelper.1: documented DH_COMPAT + * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will + be using this script RSN. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com> + to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter. + This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install + more than 1 init script. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was + failing if it was given absolute filenames. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low + + * Changed perl version detection. + * Changed call to find. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles + finding dependencies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying + .packlist files. + * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of + perl comes out. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low + + * Really include dh_installpam. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net> + * Wrote man page for same. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses + the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will + happily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail. + (Closes: #38911) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts. + (closes: #39082) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them. + This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't + already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673) + * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the + x bit was being set! + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly + necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh + well. (Closes: 38900) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not + debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to + work on the man page (closes: #38898). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp. + (#38263). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low + + * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low + + * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with + help from Julian Gilbey. + * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links + generated before were wrong sometimes (#37774) + * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers + only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests. + * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl + 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl. + * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root + (#37655). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low + + * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol + (#37346) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added to docs. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It + actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor + and --number to control details of installation. (#36832) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has + somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where + to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low + + * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low + + * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually + exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and + may be deleted. (#35845) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low + + * Various man page enhancements. + * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the + md5sums (#35819). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160). + * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when + debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to + compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail. + Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole + range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and + "-gz". + * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new + suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress + file. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700 + +debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low + + * Another very minor typo fix. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low + + * Very minor typo fix. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of + even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and + modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low + + * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script + fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell + variables properly (#34850). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low + + * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535) + * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses + (automatically generated by build process). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858). + * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files, + spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary. + (Closes: #33860) + * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no + files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low + + * README: minor typo fix. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low + + * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and + leave it at that. :-) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core". + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431). + * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin + <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration. + * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364) + * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low + + * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the + beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only + tmp dirs. (closes: #30807) + * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files, + will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>. + * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's. + * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making + dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had hardlinks. Thanks to + Craig Small for spotting this. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from + the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should + probably never happen, but it's good to be safe. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed + from 3 to 1, no change in functionality. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high + + * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary! + These were accidentally left in after dh_link testing I did as I was + working on the last version of debhelper. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from + being made. (#23255) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low + + * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"! + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragment. Was using + postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low + + * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will + still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can + legitimately happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes + postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages + built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that + they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file + changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I + was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files. + Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the + bits explicitly. + * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms + did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root. + Now it does. + * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are + cleared. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low + + * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low + + * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base + exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this, + you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make + sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper. + * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm. + * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until + suidregister actually supports it. + * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various + binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500 + +debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also + faster now. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500 + +debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other + debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a + debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because + of wn's truly ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and + because it's just 4 lines of code ;-). + * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks. + When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and + re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500 + +debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644, + this has been broken since version 1.2.3. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so + it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their + filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1) + * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of + some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as + changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with + BTW). + * manpages: updated policy version numbers. + * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644. + I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages + in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not + dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any + effect, either. (#30118) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low + + * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low + + * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that + dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can + also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low + + * Spelling and typo fixes. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call. + (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something + that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly. + * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of + suidregister maintainer (#29802). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is + *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761. + * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_link, which generates policy compliant symlinks in binary + packages, painlessly. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * Suggest dh-make (#29376). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * The perl conversion is complete. + . + * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk + garbage!) + * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore. + * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files. + * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library + interface. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized. + * dh_debstd: fixed -c option. + * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning. + * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized + * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson, + indirectly..). + * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file + permissions. + * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl. + * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl. + * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented + man pages, since it can link to undocumented.7.gz in the same directory. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800 + +debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low + + * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to + perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabilized, I've upped this to 1.2. + * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some + circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.) + * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized. + * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800 + +debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The + reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that + ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb + will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's + permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800 + +debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes + files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> + * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new + (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles + registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to + postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your + window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new + xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if + your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager + is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have + a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part, + multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif). + * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial + install (#26680). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command + line to skip, for backwards compatibility. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting + up postinst and prerm (#26560). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note + sections of shared libraries. + * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated + as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in + useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all + debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to + use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do + things you don't want them to. + * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are + present. It didn't before, which was a bug. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as + shared libraries. (#26414) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of + installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed. + * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in + debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low + + * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/ + + * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new + debhelpers. + * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if + a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually + unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page + will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected + the program to not fail. (#26214) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long + symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native + debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the + wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some + packages. Fixed. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink + to the original name of the upstream changelog. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low + + * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in + debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used + to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or + intended to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and + need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper). + I apologize for the inconvenience. + + * dh_clean: fixed a bug, introduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't + remove debian/files properly. + * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl. + * Encode the version of debhelper in a separate file, so dh_testversion + doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built. + * Removed bogus menu file. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files + since version 0.97 or so. Fixed. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters. + * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be + escaped. Also, no longer escape "-". + * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl. + * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that + --update-rcd-params was equivalent to -u for this program. You should + really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section. + * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary. + * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special + characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson + <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right + this time..) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl. + * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route. + * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you + prefer. + * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules. + * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape + metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the + characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway. + * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously + nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprecated :-) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some + cases if you tried to move a broken symlink. + * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package. + * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl. + * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken. + * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript(). + * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except + dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day). + * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686 + (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem + applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had + the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now. + * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentally didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not + passed any switches. + * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed. + * Dh_Lib.pm: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used + at all for a long while. + * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl. + * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting + large chunks in the process. + * dh_installdocs: completely rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can + install many oddly named files it died on before. + * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native + debian packages. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590). + * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common + (#21401). + * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs + to perl programs. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if + some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages + that don't always have the same files in them. + * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify + additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on. + * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700 + +debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low + + * New unstable branch of debhelper. + + * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them. + * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that + are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o + updating 27 man pages. + * dh_*.1: updated all debhelper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where + appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors. + * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1. + * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the + programs act on. (#25247) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700 + +debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low + + * 1.0 at last! + + * This release is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into + stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for + people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no + critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan + to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist + bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go + into unstable only. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700 + +debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#. + (#25514) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700 + +debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last + version. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700 + +debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only + rarely does this make sense. (#25197) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700 + +debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700 + +debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low + + * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with + !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed. + * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> + to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654). + * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source + package by accident. + * Is version 1.0 next? + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700 + +debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low + + * Dh_Lib.pm: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support + odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs. + * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700 + +debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low + + * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo. + * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build target; now + install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234). + * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> + to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages + with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks, + Herbert! + * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above + fix work. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700 + +debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version. + * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last. + * some minor reorganization of the source tree. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700 + +debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: move even very strangely named files. (#23775) Unfortunately, + I had to use a temporary file. Oh well.. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700 + +debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in + filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010) + * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used + before. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700 + +debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low + + * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700 + +debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section + and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and + a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for + -isp to be used. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700 + +debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO} + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700 + +debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low + + * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for + providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could + get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the + past week. Thanks, guys! + . + * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command. + It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to + be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are + converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will + output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd + would do in the same situation. + * dh_debstd is completely untested, I don't have the source to any packages + that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release + debhelper 1.0! + * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd + to debhelper. + * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their + permissions changed. + * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, because + some people enjoy changing root's name. + * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files, + for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two + files are treated identically. + * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function. + * Minor man page fixes. + * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054) + * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if + --no-act is on. (#23054) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400 + +debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low + + * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy! + * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression. + * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to + exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can + use -X multiple times, too. + * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the + --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700 + +debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping + elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been + broken in debhelper before! (#22395) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700 + +debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning + messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700 + +debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low + + * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch: + - dh_installdirs should go in install target. + - dh_clean should not run in binary targets. + * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm + going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new + version fixing them, or revert to 0.83. + * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good + shape if you're starting a new package. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700 + +debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low + + * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use + an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700 + +debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low + + * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them + properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages + because of missing symlinks. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800 + +debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800 + +debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low + + * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version). + * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220) + Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath + <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation. + * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist + rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package + changelogs. + * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them. + * Above 2 changes close #20442. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800 + +debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low + + * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling + fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant + to be changed after the fact :-) + * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files generated by libtool. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800 + +debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with + no version string after the -V. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800 + +debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low + + * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not. + This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug + fixes. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800 + +debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low + + * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!) + * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800 + +debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829). + * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never + installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831). + * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups + * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies. + Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but + I always welcome corrections! + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800 + +debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800 + +debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low + + * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a + --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227) + * Documented this new switch. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800 + +debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified, + dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this. + * Dh_Lib.pm: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command + do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure + no packages use the old behavior. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800 + +debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low + + * Dh_Lib.pm: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the + comments surrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was + gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800 + +debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low + + * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149. + * Removed junk file from debian/ dir. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800 + +debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low + + * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800 + +debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to + aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800 + +debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low + + * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes. + * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being + moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names. + If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66". + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800 + +debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800 + +debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low + + * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten + into the source package by accident. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800 + +debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low + + * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages. + * du_du: no longer does anything, because it has been decided on + debian-policy that du control files are bad. + * examples/*: removed dh_du calls. + * debian/rules: removed dh_du call. + * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files + with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual + values. (#18283) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800 + +debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in + /usr/X11R6/man/. + * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get + inspired to implement some of it. + * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800 + +debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so + debian/icewm.1 can be found. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800 + +debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner + (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2). + Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800 + +debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without + actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would + have done.) (#17598) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800 + +debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn't always taking effect. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500 + +debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low + + * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500 + +debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>, + to make it not abort of one of the find's fails. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500 + +debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles properly again (broken in 0.53). #17077 + * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion, + to some of the sample rules files. #17076 + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500 + +debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low + + * Dh_Lib.pm: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own + argument processor in perl. + * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them. + * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie, + dh_installinit -u"defaults 10") + * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500 + +debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp + type directories. (#16933) + * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now + use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934) + * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in + preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights + are supported. (#16935) + * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages. + (#16932) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500 + +debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./ + This has been broken since version 0.30. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500 + +debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with + policy. (#16644) + * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit + version requirements in the shlibs file. + * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}: + Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the + command line apply to ALL packages acted on. + * Updated Standards-Version to latest. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500 + +debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number + of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly. + * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certain version of + debhelper to build. + * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}: + behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command + line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the + first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on + a given package, or -i or -a. + * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add + "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules. + * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered, + and debhelper's behavior has altered. + * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this + is not going to affect any packages currently in debian. + * Dh_Lib.pm: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize + away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog. + * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a + perl script. + * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that + led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is + not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500 + +debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp. + * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the + slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by + 2 dh_* programs. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500 + +debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified + does not have a section. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500 + +debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low + + * Dh_Lib.pm: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This + makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so + I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-) + * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500 + +debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed typo #16215. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500 + +debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low + + * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, because autoconf uses that. + Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp. + * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands + to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863 + * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789 + * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files, + for safety. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500 + +debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low + + * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps, + and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is deprecated. + * Added an examples/rules.indep file. + * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep + section. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500 + +debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed man page typos #15685. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500 + +debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500 + +debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low + + * Dh_Lib.pm: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes + #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else. + * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is + that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;', + `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection) + * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean, + dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit(). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500 + +debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500 + +debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low + + * README: fixed typos (one serious). + * Ran ispell on all the documentation. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500 + +debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498 + * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of + the dh_* programs (#15497). + * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500 + +debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed. + * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500 + +debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500 + +debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low + + * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), because with any earlier version + of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500 + +debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course, + README.Debian is installed with the same name..) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500 + +debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500 + +debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the + postinst, postrm, etc. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500 + +debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500 + +debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low + + * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error. + * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej, + .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files. + * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running + them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the + commands once, and then run them separately. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500 + +debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for + compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file. + * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed problem with -P flag. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500 + +debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no + matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500 + +debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low + + * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for + installing package files into. + * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be + specified. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500 + +debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples + unchanged. + * Install examples/rules* executable. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500 + +debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400 + +debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed misspelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README. + (#13990) Thanks, Adrian. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400 + +debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low + + * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles. + (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048. + * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter. + * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README. + * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048). + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400 + +debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium + + * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all + files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages. + * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for + multiple binary packages. + * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you + should rebuild them with this version. + * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400 + +debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package. + * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400 + +debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file. + * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400 + +debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low + + * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops. + * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is + named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native + package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package, + it is installed as TODO.Debian. + * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as + debian/README.debian. + * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks. + * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules + files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper + permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable + in a few situations.) + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400 + +debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low + + * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400 + +debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400 + +debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries. + * Fixed several man pages. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400 + +debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to + dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean. + * Removed some pointless uses of cat. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400 + +debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but + is ready for general use. + * Added man pages for all commands. + * Multiple binary package support. + * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on, + by group (arch or noarch), and by package name. + * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as + parameters. + * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright + * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be + auto-installed as parameters. + * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships + and permissions. + * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so + files. + * Added a README. + * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside + the package build directory it is to act on. + * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this + package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib. + * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400 + +debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low + + * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet + ready to replace debstd. + + -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400 |