[Bug 812120] Re: Please merge debhelper 8.9.6 from Debian unstable

[Bryce Harrington]

Hi Ahmed, thanks for tending to this merge, and updating it as the
debian versions increase.

I've verified the 8.9.6 patch does build properly on i386.

I'm a little worried that there might be side effects from some of the
debian fixes, which would be unfortunate to have this late in the cycle.
Looking at the debhelper bug reports, I don't see any reported issues
that look like they'd be fixed by upgrading to this version, so I'm
concerned we'd be taking on some regression risks without gaining a
defined benefit.  Are you aware of some tangible benefits we'd gain?

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Title:
  Please merge debhelper 8.9.6 from Debian unstable

Status in “debhelper” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  debhelper (8.9.6ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

    * Merge with Debian (LP: #812120); remaining changes:
      - dh_installinit: Add --upstart-only and --onlyscripts-upstart modes.
      - Add various autoscripts for above: postinst-upstart,
        postinst-upstart-replace, postinst-upstart-restart,
        prerm-upstart, prerm-upstart-norestart, preinst-removeconffile.
      - dh_installudev: Change default init.d symlink priority to 40.
      - dh_installchangelogs: Do not install upstream changelog in compat level
        7. This floods packages with huge upstream changelogs which take
        precious CD space.
      - add dh_apparmor and autoscripts
      - debian/rules: set executable bit for dh_apparmor before actually running
        dh build, that is in order to get the manpage built for dh_apparmor.
      - dh_installinit: drop redundant definition of -O.
      - debian/control: dpkg-dev dependency needs to be on 1.16.0~ubuntu4 for
        multiarch, not just 1.16.0~.

   -- أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <aelmahmoudy at sabily.org>  Mon,
  05 Sep 2011 20:10:42 +0200

  debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low

    * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
      Thanks, Gergely Nagy

   -- Joey Hess <joeyh at 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 at 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 at 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 explict build target. Closes: #634784

   -- Joey Hess <joeyh at 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 at 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 at debian.org>  Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400

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