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* clarifyJoey Hess2010-05-23
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* debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package (genesis) ↵Joey Hess2010-05-23
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* updateJoey Hess2010-05-23
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* dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated command.Joey Hess2010-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 packages in the archive still use it, but both like this: ifneq ($(shell dh_testversion '<<' 7.4.10 2>/dev/null && echo old),old) dh_parallel = --parallel endif Happily, the way that was written, if the command doesn't exist, it does the right thing and enables the behavior for the new debhelper. Not that it would greatly matter if it did not, since --parallel is not crucial.
* In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared libraries ↵Joey Hess2010-05-23
| | | | 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, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper ↵Joey Hess2010-05-23
| | | | commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
* Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.Joey Hess2010-05-23
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* updateJoey Hess2010-05-12
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* updateJoey Hess2010-04-08
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* releasing version 7.4.16Joey Hess2010-04-06
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* todoJoey Hess2010-02-16
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* updateJoey Hess2009-12-29
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* releasing version 7.4.10Joey Hess2009-12-09
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* Drop deprecated programs from the list of commands in debhelper(7). Closes: ↵Joey Hess2009-11-04
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* updateJoey Hess2009-11-04
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* Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting options ↵Joey Hess2009-11-04
| | | | after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any time soon.) Closes: #554509
* -a == -sJoey Hess2009-09-01
| | | | | | | 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
* dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806Joey Hess2009-05-27
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* updateJoey Hess2009-04-10
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* remove item already doneJoey Hess2009-03-07
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* Compatability level 4 is now deprecated.Joey Hess2009-03-07
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* updateJoey Hess2009-02-15
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* Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command that ↵Joey Hess2008-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options by ↵Joey Hess2008-10-21
| | | | passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long. Closes: #370823
* updateJoey Hess2008-06-19
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* dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a daemon ↵Joey Hess2008-05-08
| | | | 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) compatability level. Closes: #471060
* dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be deprecated ↵Joey Hess2008-04-23
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* finialize v6 modeJoey Hess2008-01-07
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* r2037: Vcs- fields are now officialjoeyh2007-10-10
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* 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
* r1979: already done!joeyh2007-04-09
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* r1941: * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the ↵joeyh2006-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | best of a difficult situation. * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604 * Conflict with python-support << 0.5.3 and python-central << 0.5.5. * 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 * Non-maintainer upload. * Update of dh_python - when buidling 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 unitialized value. Closes: #374776 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936 * 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. * Non-maintainer upload. * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
* r1938: updatejoeyh2006-07-26
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* r1923: updatejoeyh2006-06-03
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* r1805: releasing version 5.0.0joey2005-11-02
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* r1783: releasing version 4.9.8joey2005-08-27
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* r1763: releasing version 4.9.0joey2005-06-13
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* r1695: * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocatejoey2004-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 innaccuracy 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
* r1600: spanish tranalstion of man pagesjoey2003-08-26
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* 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
* r1594: * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.joey2003-08-22
| | | | | * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory. Closes: #206689
* r587: typosjoey2003-05-23
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* r571: * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not wantjoey2003-02-03
| | | | undocumented.7 links anymore.
* r553: * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.joey2002-10-03
| | | | Closes: #163128
* 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).
* r539: * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.joey2002-07-22
| | | | | Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports! * Removed dh_installxaw.
* r535: updatesjoey2002-06-24
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* r530: updates...joey2002-06-14
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* 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.)
* r515: updatesjoey2002-03-24
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