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2009

python-support (1.0.4) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Josselin Mouette ]
   * README: fix small but confusing mistake about public extensions.
   * update-python-modules.8: fix typo, thanks Nacho Barrientos.
   * Add Bernd and Piotr to uploaders.
   * dh_pysupport: fix a variable getting included in a regexp.
     Closes: #549283.
   * dh_pysupport: patch by Luca Falavigna to not generate substvars for
     Python versions not supported by python-defaults. Closes: #549713.
 
   [ Piotr Ożarowski ]
   * control: add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Svn fields

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:39:22 +0200

python-support (1.0.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules: be resilient against broken directories in
     /usr/share/python-support. Closes: #528130.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Tue, 12 May 2009 21:46:05 +0200

python-support (1.0.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * dh_pysupport: remove warning about compatibility mode.
   * movemodules: list files in /usr/share/pyshared, so that this place
     can be used as a destination for stuff installed by hand.
   * Switch to debhelper compatibility mode 7.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:25:13 +0200

python-support (1.0.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules:
     + Use the warning() function for all warnings. Closes: #522856.
   * movemodules:
     + Read links destinations instead of their contents, so that we can
       support dangling symbolic links. Closes: #523033.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:23:23 +0200

python-support (1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

   * Upload to unstable.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:22:14 +0200

python-support (0.90.5) experimental; urgency=low

   * movemodules:
     + Better handling of files from multiple sources, used for files
       being installed in different directories for python2.5 and 2.6.
     + Add /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages as a source for
       modules.
     + Use hashlib instead of md5. Closes: #519189.
   * Require python 2.5 for the hashlib module.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:09:31 +0100

python-support (0.90.4) experimental; urgency=low

   * movemodules:
     + When moving relative symbolic links, handle the case where we move
       several of them.
     + Support dist-packages as a source for modules.
   * rules: install the .pth in dist-packages for python2.6.
     Closes: #518826.
   * update-python-modules: fix a crash occurring when a package drops
     some supported versions. Closes: #518973.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:24:12 +0100

python-support (0.90.3) experimental; urgency=low

   * Add a quick guide for maintainers on top of the README. Maybe it
     will prevent maintainers from doing useless things they thought were
     necessary by reading the rest.
   * movemodules:
     + Now that we have the /var/lib/python-support symlink, also move
       files from that directory at build time, this will avoid to change
       a couple of packages.
     + Preserve relative symbolic links when moving them to a different
       level

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:39:41 +0100

python-support (0.90.2) experimental; urgency=low

   * dh_pysupport: match /\.py$/ instead of /.py$/.
   * movemodules: completely remove empty __init__.py files, they are
     added at installation time by update-python-modules.
   * post{inst,rm}: add a symbolic link in /var/lib/python-support,
     otherwise the upgrade will be a big failure for several packages.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:42:52 +0100

python-support (0.90.1) experimental; urgency=low

   * Update priority to match the override.
   * update-python-modules: add a consistency check for the case when no
     packages using python-support are installed.
   * dh_pysupport: avoid duplicates when handling private modules.
   * movemodules: correctly support the case where
     /usr/lib/pyshared/pythonX.Y is used but more Python versions are
     supported.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:16:49 +0100

python-support (0.90.0) experimental; urgency=low

   * Major changes to the installed packages format. The old format is
     still supported at runtime, but will not be generated anymore.
   * Private modules now ship foo.private files, containing the metadata
     and file listing for the package.
   * Public modules now ship foo.public files for metadata and listing,
     and files go to /usr/{share,lib}/pyshared. Closes: #478178.
   * The modules installation path was changed to /usr/lib/pymodules.
   * The private directory has moved to
     /usr/share/python-support/private. The specific scripts are now
     installed in here.
   * Important documentation updates.
   * copyright: point to the correct LGPL location.
   * Add support for python2.6.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:44:25 +0100

2008

python-support (0.8.7) unstable; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules (install_modules):
     + Make the error message more useful.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:02:41 +0100

python-support (0.8.6) unstable; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules (create_dotpath):
     + Completely ignore lines starting with "import", as they would be
       executed by python upon startup.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:31:43 +0200

python-support (0.8.5) unstable; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules (post_change_stuff):
     + Don't create a namespace package if there is a file named .noinit
       in the same directory. Closes: #459468.
   * dh_pysupport: add correct dependencies when there is such a file.
   * README: document how to do that and that you shouldn't.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:30:01 +0200

python-support (0.8.4) unstable; urgency=medium

   * update-python-modules (post_change_stuff):
     + Remove symbolic links to files in packages not supported by the
       current python version anymore. Closes: #485740
   * Standards version is 3.8.0, no changes required.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:07:07 +0200

python-support (0.8.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules:
     + Integrate a part of the Ubuntu change for LP#208961, fixes a
       crash that might occur if a dangling symbolic link to an old
       version of the file in a removed package is found.
   * README:
     + Document the specific case of daemons needing namespace packages.
       This should be very rare, but you never know.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:07:50 +0200

python-support (0.8.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix typo in 0.8.1 changelog entry.
   * update-python-modules:
     + Call dpkg-trigger explicitly when we need it. This should prevent
       the trigger from being run before the actual installation.
       Closes: #486516.
   * triggers: declare interest on the "pysupport" trigger.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:35:41 +0200

python-support (0.8.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules:
     + Handle the case where a daemon package uses a module that ships a
       .pth file. In this case, it is needed at once and we cannot wait
       for the trigger.
   * Depend on dpkg 1.14.19 to not get hit by #479850.
   * Fix minor issue in README.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Tue, 13 May 2008 10:48:00 +0200

python-support (0.8.0) experimental; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules:
     + Don't do anything when called with -c for public modules. This
       will allow modules to remain available while being upgraded.
     + Don't byte-compile public modules when called without -p, either.
       This should reduce the time consumed during upgrades.
     + Support a new --post-install/-p option, that byte-compiles public
       modules and removes any dangling symbolic links left by a package
       removal or upgrade.
     + Indentation fixes.
   * triggers: register triggers on /usr/share/python-support and
     /usr/lib/python-support.
   * postinst:
     + Always byte-compile python-support.dirs.
     + Launch update-python-support --post-install to enforce
       byte-compilation.
     + Launch only this command when triggered.
   * control: build-depend on debhelper 5.0.59 for triggers support.
   * pysupport.py: deprecate python2.3.
   * control: depend on python >= 2.4 to match the change.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Wed, 07 May 2008 00:18:55 +0200

python-support (0.7.7) unstable; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules:
     + Correctly handle the clean mode when called with an unknown
       directory as argument. Closes: #468848.
     + Fail when a package tries to provide an extension provided by
       another one (the previous code only worked for modules).
   * README: document that you shouldn't remove the
     /usr/share/python-support/foo directory.
   * control: properly capitalize Python.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:07:04 +0100

python-support (0.7.6) unstable; urgency=low

   * dh_pysupport: allow the Python-Depends field to be wrapped.
     Closes: #458737.
   * Standards version is 3.7.3; no changes.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:04:30 +0100

2007

python-support (0.7.5) unstable; urgency=low

   * dh_pysupport:
     + Cut out some unused code.
     + Unify script generation, cutting obsolete -i and -b options.
   * {postinst,prerm}-python-support:
     + Update snippets accordingly.
     + Launch the postinst in all cases, not only in the configure case.
       Closes: #446730.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:51:10 +0100

python-support (0.7.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * dh_pysupport: don't treat .so files linking to libpython* as
     extensions. This will avoid adding spurious dependencies.
   * Fix some wrong changelog entries talking about dh_python.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:22:36 +0200

python-support (0.7.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * dh_pysupport: fix an annoying bug sometimes leading to an invalid
     substvars file when using Python-Depends.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:15:34 +0200

python-support (0.7.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Upload to unstable.
   * dh_pysupport: bump the generated dependencies to version 0.7.1. Modules
     which need namespace packages will need to build-depend on that
     version, and will get a dependency on it.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:07:44 +0200

python-support (0.7.1) experimental; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules:
     + Exclude __init__.py files already provided by the package by
       looking at whether they are symbolic links.
     + Minor cleanups.
     + Use shutil.rmtree instead of rm -rf.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:13:32 +0200

python-support (0.7) experimental; urgency=low

   * Make the package priority standard.
   * update-python-modules: add support for namespace packages, by
     creating and removing automatically empty __init__.py files where
     appropriate. Thanks Gustavo Noronha Silva for the initial idea and
     precious input.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:45:37 +0200

python-support (0.6.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules: only warn on missing files if we're in
     cleaning mode (prerm). Closes: #422568.
   * pysupport-movemodules: merge .egg-info directories by stripping the
     -py$vers part from them. Based on a patch by Cyril Brulebois,
     closes: #422436.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Tue, 08 May 2007 18:48:31 +0200

python-support (0.6.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * dh_pysupport: trim strings in the Python-Depends field.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:50:41 +0200

python-support (0.6.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * pysupport-movemodules: remove .a and .la files, which are useless
     cruft generated by libtool (closes: #412477).
   * Upload to unstable.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:16:20 +0100

python-support (0.6.1) experimental; urgency=low

   * pysupport-movemodules:
     + Fix a case where the original installation directory was not
       removed.
     + Move modules from /var/lib/python-support as well. This allows
       to handle packages that hardcode the path to the modules
       (closes: #397895).
   * README:
     + Document the procedure for such packages.
     + Also document the Python-Depends field.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:04:23 +0100

python-support (0.6) experimental; urgency=low

   * dh_pysupport:
     + Generate the useless ${python:Versions} field (closes: #403366).
      + Parse a new control field, Python-Depends, which contains
        dependencies on other python packages. Add to ${python:Depends}
        the virtual dependencies needed for all python versions.
     + Remove useless spaces at the end of python-support dependencies.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:10:27 +0100

2006

python-support (0.5.6) unstable; urgency=medium

   * pysupport-parseversions, dh_pysupport: remove the remaining calls to
     pyversions, thanks Pawel Tecza.
   * This allows to loosen dependencies on python to 2.3.
   * update-python-modules: only show a warning when byte-compilation
     fails, but don't stop the whole process, thanks Raphaël Hertzog
     (closes: #400001).
   * pysupport-parseversions: fix parsing of XS-Python-Version field.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:34:58 +0100

python-support (0.5.5) unstable; urgency=high

   * dh_pysupport, pysupport-movemodules, debian/rules,
     pysupport-parseversions, pysupport.py: do not rely on pyversions to
     obtain the list of installed python versions, because it is not a
     reliable way to do so, see #396840.
   * This brings back support for python2.3, and allows support for
     python2.5.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:25:16 +0100

python-support (0.5.4) unstable; urgency=high

   * dh_pysupport: patch from Raphaël Hertzog to correctly depend on
     python when there is no minimum nor maximum version
     (closes: #391689).

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:38:41 +0200

python-support (0.5.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * dh_pysupport: always generate dependencies.
   * Conflict with debhelper (<< 5.0.38).

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Sun, 1 Oct 2006 19:58:09 +0200

python-support (0.5.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules:
     + Remove some useless code.
     + Small fix in short help.
     + Handle the case of broken symlinks needing to be overwritten.
   * dh_pysupport.1: reference README and policy, thanks Tomas Pospisek
     (closes: #388171).

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:14:15 +0200

python-support (0.5.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * dh_pysupport:
     + Generate ${python:Provides} when no debian/pyversions file exists.
     + Barf when /usr/lib/python-support/$package is lacking an existing
       python version (closes: #387040).

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:51:49 +0200

python-support (0.5) unstable; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules: be much stricter in what is accepted on the
     command line. Only .dirs files are accepted with the -i option,
     while directories in /usr/share/python-support are accepted with the
     -b option. It is now possible to pass both kinds of arguments on the
     command line. Closes: #386830.
   * update-python-modules: abandon compatibility with version 0.1
     entirely. The warnings have been prominent enough.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:39:21 +0200

python-support (0.4.3) unstable; urgency=medium

   * update-python-modules: check for .path presence when checking for
     newly installed python versions, otherwise stuff might not be
     compiled for it (closes: #383799, medium-urgency fix).
   * update-python-modules: handle symbolic links to directories
     (closes: #378853).

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:11:19 +0200

python-support (0.4.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * dh_pysupport: add a python dependency even when there is already a
     dependency on python-support (closes: #383958).
   * pysupport.py: strip all unnecessary whitespace (closes: #385105).
   * pysupport-movemodules: force the umask to avoid getting wrong
     permissions in the final package (closes: #382755).

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:01:10 +0200

python-support (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * dh_pysupport:
     + Implement the -X option to exclude files from being searched to
       generate the dependencies.
     + Detect private extensions as .so files calling Py_InitModule*. In
       this case, a strict dependency on python (>= X.Y), python (<<
       X.Y+1) is generated.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:03:48 +0200

python-support (0.4.0) unstable; urgency=low

   * dh_pysupport:
     + Handle dependencies for packages that only ship modules for
       non-default python versions.
     + Always generate dependencies when debian/pycompat isn't found.
     + Add missing newline at the end of the .dirs files.
     + Avoid obtaining a double leading / in .dirs files.
     + Avoid duplicate entries in .dirs files.
     + Create .pyversion in private module directories when the -V option
       is used. Require python-support 0.4 in this case.
     + Handle python dependencies for private modules.
     + Handle script dependencies.
     + Improve comments in the code.
     + Remove .py[co] files in the private module directories.
   * update-python-modules:
     + Don't call compileall.py on non-existing directories
       (closes: #378773).
     + Bytecompilation of private modules for non-default python
       versions, using the .pyversion file.
   * README:
     + Document all these changes.
     + Document that using dh_python is not recommended.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Wed, 9 Aug 2006 00:26:42 +0200

python-support (0.3.9) unstable; urgency=low

   * python-support.rtupdate: only run the script when called with the
     "rtupdate" argument.
   * pysupport-movemodules: keep foo.so.3 files in /usr/lib, but print a
     warning.
   * dh_pysupport:
     + Fix typo in documentation (closes: #375934).
     + Fix --noscripts usage (closes: #378421).
   * README: a few clarifications from Cédric Delfosse
     (closes: #378161).

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Wed, 2 Aug 2006 13:23:44 +0200

python-support (0.3.8) unstable; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules: fix upgrade path from pre-0.3.4 versions
     (closes: #375608).

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:00:38 +0200

python-support (0.3.7) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/prerm: in the case update-python-modules fails, cleanup by
     hand and exit gracefully. This should make upgrades from broken
     versions work.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:50:47 +0200

python-support (0.3.6) unstable; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules: Fix a case where the .path file wasn't
     cleaned up automatically upon package removal.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:17:56 +0200

python-support (0.3.5) unstable; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules: don't try to generate a .path file if the
     directory doesn't exist. Thanks Bastian Blank for noticing this.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:08:12 +0200

python-support (0.3.4) unstable; urgency=low

   * update-python-modules: handle .pth files correctly, by concatenating
     them into ".path".
   * rules: python-support.pth is now a symbolic link to this .path.
   * dh_pysupport: make packages depend on python-support 0.3.4 to avoid
     hitting the bug.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:23:21 +0200

python-support (0.3.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * pysupport-movemodules: fix directory creation in the case there is
     no .py at all in the package.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:54:24 +0200

python-support (0.3.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * dh_pysupport: fix typo affecting dependency generation.
   * README: recommend using pyversions -vr now it works.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:46:53 +0200

python-support (0.3.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * README: add correct documentation (closes: #370515).
   * pysupport-movemodules: remove .pyc and .pyo files if some are
     generated.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:41:19 +0200

python-support (0.3.0) unstable; urgency=low

   * Acknowledge NMU (closes: #372774).
   * Increase minimal dependency to 0.2 in the helper script.
     + Make it 0.3 in the case where /usr/lib/python-support exists.
   * rules: cdbs already provides DEB_VERSION, no need to re-compute it.
   * install: install dh_pysupport in /usr/bin.
   * Don't build-depend on perl.
 
   * Standards-version is 3.7.2.
   * Add more warnings and errors for package making wrong uses of
     python-support or using the python-support 0.1 compatibility mode.
   * Use "pyversions -s to get the list of python versions.
     + Depend on python 2.3.5-6.
   * Improve a bit the manual page.
   * Fail if a package tries to overwrite a file provided by another
     package (closes: #373753).
   * Support extensions, by searching
     /usr/lib/python-support/$package/$version for files specific to a
     python version.
   * New command: pysupport-movemodules, to move modules from
     /usr/lib/python2.X trees to the python-support hierarchies.
   * Call this command in dh_pysupport.
   * Add the ability to generate a .version in dh_pysupport, by copying
     debian/pyversions.
   * Add the possibility for automatic generation of ${python:Depends}
     and ${python:Provides}, when calling dh_pysupport -d.
   * Provide python-support.rt* scripts to provide hooks when python
     versions are installed or removed.
     + The dependency on python (<< 2.4) can be removed.
   * New command: pysupport-parseversions. It parses
     debian/package.pyversions files to display the list of supported
     versions that are included in the version list described here.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:18:29 +0200

python-support (0.2.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Integrate dh_pysupport and generate the corresponding man-page.
     Closes: #372774

 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:59:47 +0200

python-support (0.2.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Rewrite the version parser to correctly handle the "-2.x" version
     string.
   * Remove support for python2.1 and python2.2.
   * Purge directories for old python versions.
   * Standards-version is 3.7.0.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Wed, 3 May 2006 18:54:10 +0200

python-support (0.2.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Include /usr/share/python-support in the package (closes: #365550).

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Mon, 1 May 2006 04:26:25 +0200

python-support (0.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Link the .py files (closes: #365111, #348596, #363505).
   * Support /usr/share/python-support/foo/.version to list the python
     versions for which the package is known to work.
   * Make python-support entirely stateless. We now rely on
     /usr/share/python-support/*/ for directories to install and on
     /usr/share/python-support/*.dirs for directories to bytecompile in
     situ.
   * Improve performance by byte-compiling for non-default python
     versions in a single run.
   * Treat relative paths in arguments as belonging to
     /usr/share/python-support.
   * Support python 2.5.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:29:40 +0200

python-support (0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Create /var/lib/python-support first.

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:25:20 +0100

python-support (0.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Initial release (closes: #345638).

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:52:42 +0100