Version 0.8-dev9

WARNING: Development builds are unstable & may contain bugs.

Changes:

• support Python 3
  • drop support for Python 2
• support wxPython 4
  • drop support for wxPython 2.7 & 3
• logging improvements
• Test modes:
  • 'alpha'
    • Enables features that aren't ready for release
• added Creative Commons & OpenGameArt.org license templates
• build page options stored in user config instead of project
• Some code merged from unstable branch
• Rename log level argument value from 'warning' to 'warn'
• Force main window to show on primary display at initial startup
• User Interface:
  • Changed layout of menu launcher page
  • Use bitmap buttons on copyright page
  • Added 'refresh' & 'open directory' buttons to copyright page
  • Update some bitmap images
  • Show source directory in file list
  • Option to preserve top-level directories in file list
  • Use checkbox for changelog target instead of radio button
  • Change layout of menu launcher page
  • added 'Collapse' option to file tree context menu
• Help reference:
  • Link to Debian manual page for overriding Lintian tags
  • Link to unofficial page for writing manual pages
• Working on fixing marking project dirty (WIP)
• Lintian tags are listed in data/lintian/tags
• Leave trailing newline character (
  ) in md5sums file to prevent read error by Lintian
• Menu 'Help -> Help' renamed to 'Help -> Manual'
• Help manual now cached & displayed from https://debreate.wordpress.com/manual/
• Added menu option to clear local cache directory
• Made auto-link help dialog read-only
• Files' relative paths are preserved when opening project
• Toggle visibility of hidden items in directory tree
• Symbolic links are displayed in green on Files page
• Added option to not follow symbolic links when copying files to build package
• Fixed problems with items in file list not being added/removed properly
• Fixed default value of auto-link target
• Fixed auto-link executables function
• Importing into auto-link executables list scans for nested executables
• Added "Provides" option to dependencies & conflicts page
• added "MIME Type" field to menu
• build checks for file conflicts
• unhandled exceptions in main thread causes app to close
• added option to clean up file permissions on build page

Version 0.8-dev8

WARNING: Development builds are unstable & may contain bugs.

Changes:

• support Python 3
  • drop support for Python 2
• support wxPython 4
  • drop support for wxPython 2.7 & 3
• logging improvements
• Test modes:
  • 'alpha'
    • Enables features that aren't ready for release
• added Creative Commons & OpenGameArt.org license templates
• build page options stored in user config instead of project
• Some code merged from unstable branch
• Rename log level argument value from 'warning' to 'warn'
• Force main window to show on primary display at initial startup
• User Interface:
  • Changed layout of menu launcher page
  • Use bitmap buttons on copyright page
  • Added 'refresh' & 'open directory' buttons to copyright page
  • Update some bitmap images
  • Show source directory in file list
  • Option to preserve top-level directories in file list
  • Use checkbox for changelog target instead of radio button
  • Change layout of menu launcher page
  • added 'Collapse' option to file tree context menu
• Help reference:
  • Link to Debian manual page for overriding Lintian tags
  • Link to unofficial page for writing manual pages
• Working on fixing marking project dirty (WIP)
• Lintian tags are listed in data/lintian/tags
• Leave trailing newline character (
  ) in md5sums file to prevent read error by Lintian
• Menu 'Help -> Help' renamed to 'Help -> Manual'
• Help manual now cached & displayed from https://debreate.wordpress.com/manual/
• Added menu option to clear local cache directory
• Made auto-link help dialog read-only
• Files' relative paths are preserved when opening project
• Toggle visibility of hidden items in directory tree
• Symbolic links are displayed in green on Files page
• Added option to not follow symbolic links when copying files to build package
• Fixed problems with items in file list not being added/removed properly
• Fixed default value of auto-link target
• Fixed auto-link executables function
• Importing into auto-link executables list scans for nested executables
• Added "Provides" option to dependencies & conflicts page
• added "MIME Type" field to menu
• build checks for file conflicts
• unhandled exceptions in main thread causes app to close

Version 0.8-dev7

Changes:

• support Python 3
  • drop support for Python 2
• support wxPython 4
  • drop support for wxPython 2.7 & 3
• logging improvements
• Test modes:
  • 'alpha'
    • Enables features that aren't ready for release
• added Creative Commons & OpenGameArt.org license templates
• build page options stored in user config instead of project
• Some code merged from unstable branch
• Rename log level argument value from 'warning' to 'warn'
• Force main window to show on primary display at initial startup
• User Interface:
  • Changed layout of menu launcher page
  • Use bitmap buttons on copyright page
  • Added 'refresh' & 'open directory' buttons to copyright page
  • Update some bitmap images
  • Show source directory in file list
  • Option to preserve top-level directories in file list
  • Use checkbox for changelog target instead of radio button
  • Change layout of menu launcher page
  • added 'Collapse' option to file tree context menu
• Help reference:
  • Link to Debian manual page for overriding Lintian tags
  • Link to unofficial page for writing manual pages
• Working on fixing marking project dirty (WIP)
• Lintian tags are listed in data/lintian/tags
• Leave trailing newline character (
  ) in md5sums file to prevent read error by Lintian
• Menu 'Help -> Help' renamed to 'Help -> Manual'
• Help manual now cached & displayed from https://debreate.wordpress.com/manual/
• Added menu option to clear local cache directory
• Made auto-link help dialog read-only
• Files' relative paths are preserved when opening project
• Toggle visibility of hidden items in directory tree
• Symbolic links are displayed in green on Files page
• Added option to not follow symbolic links when copying files to build package
• Fixed problems with items in file list not being added/removed properly
• Fixed default value of auto-link target
• Fixed auto-link executables function
• Importing into auto-link executables list scans for nested executables
• Added "Provides" option to dependencies & conflicts page
• added "MIME Type" field to menu
• build checks for file conflicts
• unhandled exceptions in main thread causes app to close

Version 0.8-dev6

Changes:

• support Python 3
  • drop support for Python 2
• support wxPython 4
  • drop support for wxPython 2.7 & 3
• logging improvements
• Test modes:
  • 'alpha'
    • Enables features that aren't ready for release
• added Creative Commons & OpenGameArt.org license templates
• Some code merged from unstable branch
• Rename log level argument value from 'warning' to 'warn'
• Force main window to show on primary display at initial startup
• User Interface:
  • Changed layout of menu launcher page
  • Use bitmap buttons on copyright page
  • Added 'refresh' & 'open directory' buttons to copyright page
  • Update some bitmap images
  • Show source directory in file list
  • Option to preserve top-level directories in file list (adding files is currently broken)
  • Use checkbox for changelog target instead of radio button
  • Change layout of menu launcher page
• Help reference:
  • Link to Debian manual page for overriding Lintian tags
  • Link to unofficial page for writing manual pages
• Working on fixing marking project dirty (WIP)
• Lintian tags are listed in data/lintian/tags
• Leave trailing newline character (
  ) in md5sums file to prevent read error by Lintian
• Menu 'Help -> Help' renamed to 'Help -> Manual'
• Help manual now cached & displayed from https://debreate.wordpress.com/manual/
• Added menu option to clear local cache directory
• Made auto-link help dialog read-only
• Files' relative paths are preserved when opening project
• Toggle visibility of hidden items in directory tree
• Symbolic links are displayed in green on Files page
• Added option to not follow symbolic links when copying files to build package
• Fixed problems with items in file list not being added/removed properly
• Fixed default value of auto-link target
• Fixed auto-link executables function
• Importing into auto-link executables list scans for nested executables
• Added "Provides" option to dependencies & conflicts page
• added "MIME Type" field to menu

Version 0.8-dev5

Changes:

• support Python 3
  • drop support for Python 2
• support wxPython 4
  • drop support for wxPython 2.7 & 3
• logging improvements
• Test modes:
  • 'alpha'
    • Enables features that aren't ready for release
• Some code merged from unstable branch
• Rename log level argument value from 'warning' to 'warn'
• Force main window to show on primary display at initial startup
• User Interface:
  • Changed layout of menu launcher page
  • Use bitmap buttons on copyright page
  • Added 'refresh' & 'open directory' buttons to copyright page
  • Update some bitmap images
  • Show source directory in file list
  • Option to preserve top-level directories in file list (adding files is currently broken)
  • Use checkbox for changelog target instead of radio button
  • Change layout of menu launcher page
• Help reference:
  • Link to Debian manual page for overriding Lintian tags
  • Link to unofficial page for writing manual pages
• Working on fixing marking project dirty (WIP)
• Lintian tags are listed in data/lintian/tags
• Leave trailing newline character (\n) in md5sums file to prevent read error by Lintian
• Menu 'Help -> Help' renamed to 'Help -> Manual'
• Help manual now cached & displayed from https://debreate.wordpress.com/manual/
• Added menu option to clear local cache directory
• Made auto-link help dialog read-only
• Files' relative paths are preserved when opening project
• Toggle visibility of hidden items in directory tree
• Symbolic links are displayed in green on Files page
• Added option to not follow symbolic links when copying files to build package
• Fixed problems with items in file list not being added/removed properly
• Fixed default value of auto-link target
• Fixed auto-link executables function
• Importing into auto-link executables list scans for nested executables
• Added "Provides" option to dependencies & conflicts page

Version 0.8-dev4

v0.8-dev4

Update project page links

Version 0.8-dev3

Note: This release of Debreate depends on wxPython >= 4.1.1. If your distribution does not meet this requirement, start Debreate from a command line terminal & input "yes" to attempt to download & install a compatible version. If this fails, try executing python3 -m pip install wxPython. This development release has not been tested with versions newer than 4.1.1. To install a specific version, execute python3 -m pip install wxPython==4.1.1.

Version 0.8-dev2

!!!WARNING!!! Bugs found in this release, package building fails.

Note: This release of Debreate depends on wxPython >= 4.1.1. If your distribution does not meet this requirement, start Debreate from a command line terminal & input "yes" to attempt to download & install a compatible version. If this fails, try executing python3 -m pip install wxPython. This development release has not been tested with versions newer than 4.1.1. To install a specific version, execute python3 -m pip install wxPython==4.1.1.

0.8 Development Release 1

Changes:

• support Python 3
  • drop supprt for Python 2
• support wxPython 4
  • drop support for wxPython 2.7 & 3
• Test modes:
  • 'alpha'
    • Enables features that aren't ready for release
• Some code merged from unstable branch
• Rename log level argument value from 'warning' to 'warn'
• Force main window to show on primary display at initial startup
• User Interface:
  • Changed layout of menu launcher page
  • Use bitmap buttons on copyright page
  • Added 'refresh' & 'open directory' buttons to copyright page
  • Update some bitmap images
  • Show source directory in file list
  • Option to preserve top-level directories in file list (adding files is currently broken)
  • Use checkbox for changelog target instead of radio button
  • Change layout of menu launcher page
• Help reference:
  • Link to Debian manual page for overriding Lintian tags
  • Link to unofficial page for writing manual pages
• Working on fixing marking project dirty (WIP)
• Lintian tags are listed in data/lintian/tags
• Leave trailing newline character (\n) in md5sums file to prevent read error by Lintian
• Menu 'Help -> Help' renamed to 'Help -> Manual'
• Help manual now cached & displayed from https://debreate.wordpress.com/manual/
• Added menu option to clear local cache directory
• Made auto-link help dialog read-only
• Files' relative paths are preserved when opening project
• Toggle visibility of hidden items in directory tree
• Symbolic links are displayed in green on Files page
• Added option to not follow symbolic links when copying files to build package
• Fixed problems with items in file list not being added/removed properly
• Fixed default value of auto-link target
• Fixed auto-link executables function
• Importing into auto-link executables list scans for nested executables
• Added "Provides" option to dependencies & conflicts page

0.7.13

Notable Changes:

Drag & Drop Support:

• Files can be dropped onto some text areas from system file manager
  • Equivalent to opening file's contents into text area
• Files & Folders can be dropped onto the file list from the file manager
• Files & Folders can be dropped onto the file list from the directory tree

License templates generation:

• Full license templates can be generated
• Some common license templates shipped with app
• Custom license templates can be placed in user's "local" directory
  • $HOME/.local/share/debreate/templates/licenses
  • These take precedence over system & app templates

Caching Distribution Names:

• Menu option "Options ➜ Update dist names cache"
  • Attempts to retrieve list of distribution names for Debian, Ubuntu, & Linux Mint
  • Names are listed under "Distribution" on the changelog page

Files page:

• Option to list only directory name or individual files when adding directory to file list
• Files/Folders can be renamed or moved to trash from directory tree
• Attached storage devices mount points are listed under directory tree
  • Listed devices can be refreshed with context menu
• Multiple items can be selected at a time in directory tree

Changelog page:

• Sections can be delimited by putting one of *, _+, **-, or **#_ as first character on line

Build page:

• Option to strip ELF binary files (executables & shared objects) before packaging

General:

• Removed custom file/folder dialogs

Fixes:

• Relative path names are preserved when adding directories to the file list
• Fix some startup issues from corrupt config file