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@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +Debhelper v2 is a major new revision of debhelper. Currently, v2 is still +being worked on, and will change in drastic ways without notice. To keep +this from breaking packages, debhelper will continue to operate in v1 +compatability mode by default. + +To enable debhelper v2 features (do this with *caution*), set DH_COMPAT=2 +Here are the changes I'm planning to make to debhelper for v2, based on +prior discussion on debian-devel. + +Items marked with a + are done. All others will happen as soon as I can code +them. + +* Standardize on the name used for the temporary build directory of a + package. Currently it's debian/tmp/ for the first package and + debian/<package>/ for other packages of a multi-binary package. I've + decided after much agonizing to to use debian/<package>. The main thing this + has going for it is it means lots of multi-binary packages need only small + alterations, since they already use debian/<package> for making most of + thier .deb's anyway. I eliminated the other ideas for these reasons: + - debian/tmp/<package>: debian/tmp already has history behind it, + changing how it's used would be confusing. + - debian/build/<package>: confusing (is the code compiled there?) + - debian/tmp-<package>, debian/package-<tmp>: too long, little gain + +* dh_installmanpages will be made into a non-DWIM program, so you'll have to + specify all man pages to install and possibly where to put them. This may + look something like: + dh_installmanpages -x xterm.1 xfoo.1 xbar.man + dh_installmanpages --section=8 su.man + Ok, there's a _little_ DWIM left in there, it'll be smart enough to munge + the .man filenames properly. It'll probably just assume all man pages have + an extention, and delete that extentation, and add the correct one. + +* dh_movefiles will use a name other than debian/<package>.files for the + list of what to move, because it can't use debian/files for the first + package, since that file is already used elsewhere. It'll use + debian/<package>.move + +* dh_movefiles should delete empty directories after it's moved all files + out of them. (#17111) + +* debian/README will be installed as /usr/doc/<package>/README in native + packages, and as README.Debian in non-native packages. This is consistent + with the handing of debian/TODO and debian/changelog. (#34628) + +* There will be no change to the names of debhelper config files used, I've + decided against debian/<package>/* and the like, because although those + subdirs do work, they're not allowed by the packaging manual, and they'd + make source unpacking by hand a lot harder. I will leave these files + completly as they are now. However, I will remove most of the language + documenting that debian/<foo> works, and will deprecate that usage. + debian/<package>.<foo> will be preferred even in single binary packages. + +* Every file in etc/ will be automatically be flagged as a conffile. + +* Debhelper config files will support globbing via * and ?, when + appropriate. To turn this off and use those changarcters raw, just quote + them. |