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* I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..Joey Hess2008-04-24
| | | | | * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified, and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
* dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.Joey Hess2008-04-23
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* dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed therein.Joey Hess2008-04-23
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* initial version of dh, with option parsing and sequences in placeJoey Hess2008-04-23
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* New v7 mode, which only has one change from v6, and is the new recommended ↵Joey Hess2008-04-23
| | | | | | | | | | | default. * New v7 mode, which only has one change from v6, and is the new recommended default. * dh_install: 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.
* updatesJoey Hess2008-01-08
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* finialize v6 modeJoey Hess2008-01-07
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* add .git to example DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE lineJoey Hess2007-10-22
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* r2033: * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstreamjoeyh2007-09-30
| | | | | | | | 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.
* r2016: fixjoeyh2007-07-09
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* r2002: * Update urls to web page.joeyh2007-05-17
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* r1997: * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:joeyh2007-04-20
| | | | | | | | | - 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.
* r1987: * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certianjoeyh2007-04-13
| | | | third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
* r1980: * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order thanjoeyh2007-04-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 exsiting man pages. Closes: #288250
* r1973: fixjoeyh2007-03-07
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* r1836: * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.joeyh2006-01-04
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* r1824: * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man ↵joey2005-11-29
| | | | | | pages). Closes: #341289
* r1805: releasing version 5.0.0joey2005-11-02
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* r1763: releasing version 4.9.0joey2005-06-13
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* r1753: * The infinite number of monkeys release.joey2005-04-22
| | | | * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
* r1740: releasing version 4.2.31joey2005-02-16
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* r1715: * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: ↵joey2004-08-25
| | | | | | #265777 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
* r1711: releasing version 4.2.18joey2004-08-13
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* r1655: * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understandsjoey2004-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for details. * Dh_Lib: 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 substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in postinst scripts for udebs. * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
* r1596: * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.joey2003-08-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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
* r1086: * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819joey2003-07-28
| | | | | * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that. * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
* r595: * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, injoey2003-07-07
| | | | | | 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
* r582: * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757joey2003-04-06
| | | | * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
* r575: * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.joey2003-02-25
| | | | * Update debhelper(1).
* r552: * The "reverse hangover" release.joey2002-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | * 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).
* r547: * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old ↵joey2002-09-16
| | | | | | | behavior if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not needed.
* r532: * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.joey2002-06-20
| | | | | | * 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.
* r529: * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files injoey2002-06-02
| | | | /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
* r527: * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908joey2002-05-24
| | | | * Documented what globbing is allowed.
* r522: * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directoriesjoey2002-05-19
| | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* r518: * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inheritedjoey2002-04-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 reproting 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 independantly. 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 incouraged 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 occured 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 compatability level they are using.)
* r506: * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way ↵joey2002-01-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | to say what debhelper compatability 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, supplimenting 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.
* r501: * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number ↵joey2002-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | jump), and it is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break compatability 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 compatability, 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 referneces 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.)
* r496: * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335joey2001-11-18
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* r495: * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. ↵joey2001-11-17
| | | | | | | | | | | 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
* r483: * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130joey2001-06-25
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* r482: * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553joey2001-06-21
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* r448: * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks likejoey2001-02-23
| | | | a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
* r446: spelling patchjoey2001-02-15
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* r439: attack of the pod people from the planet perl is completejoey2001-02-10