1 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
4 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
9 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
15 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
21 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
24 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
26 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
27 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
28 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
29 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
30 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
31 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
32 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
33 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
34 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
35 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
36 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
40 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
42 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
43 package install. Closes: #415717
44 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
45 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
46 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
47 script and then remove the python files.
48 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
49 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
50 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
51 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
52 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
53 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
54 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
55 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
56 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
57 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
58 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
59 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
60 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
64 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Correct typo in french translation
70 * Typo. Closes: #400571
71 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
73 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
75 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
76 Closes: #406921, #381940
77 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
79 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
80 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
81 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
82 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
83 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
84 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
85 specified). Closes: #381851
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
90 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
97 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
98 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
102 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
108 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
109 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
112 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
113 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
115 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
116 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
117 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
118 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
122 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
125 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
128 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
132 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
138 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
141 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
144 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
145 a difficult situation.
146 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
147 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
148 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
149 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
150 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
151 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
152 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
153 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
154 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
155 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
159 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Non-maintainer upload.
162 * Update of dh_python
163 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
164 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
166 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
167 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
168 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
169 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
170 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
172 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
174 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Non-maintainer upload.
177 * Update of dh_python
178 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
179 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
180 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
181 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
182 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
183 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
184 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
185 specific python version. Closes: #373853
186 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
187 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
189 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
190 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
191 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
192 the not too-distant future).
193 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
194 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
195 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
196 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
197 thus made the build fail.
199 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
201 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Non-maintainer upload.
204 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
206 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
208 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
211 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
212 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
213 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
214 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
215 package. Closes: #301424
216 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
217 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
218 fonts). Closes: #372686
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
222 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
228 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
229 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
230 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
231 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
232 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
233 above, but already depends on that.
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
237 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
239 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
240 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
241 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
242 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
243 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
244 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
248 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
254 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
260 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
261 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
265 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
267 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
268 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
272 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
276 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
277 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
278 new version (0.24.1).
279 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
280 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
283 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
284 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
285 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
286 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
287 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
288 new directory on their own.
289 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
290 * Fix broken directory removal code.
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
294 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
297 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
298 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
299 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
300 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
304 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
307 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
308 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
309 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
310 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
311 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
315 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
321 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Typo. Closes: #358904
325 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
326 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
330 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
331 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
335 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
337 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
338 || exit 0 instead of the intended
340 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
341 ignored. Closes: #337664
343 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
348 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
354 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
359 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
360 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
361 the dh_installdebconf manpage
362 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
363 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
364 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
365 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
369 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
372 version. Closes: #350607
373 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
374 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
375 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
376 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
380 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
383 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
384 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
385 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
389 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
396 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Minor bug fix from last release.
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
402 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
404 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
405 language guessing. Closes: #193221
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
409 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
412 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
413 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
414 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
415 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
416 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
417 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
421 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
423 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
424 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
425 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
430 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
432 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
433 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
437 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
440 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
444 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
447 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
448 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
449 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
450 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
451 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
452 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
456 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
459 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
460 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
461 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
462 link. Closes: #346405
463 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
466 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
467 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
468 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
469 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
470 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
471 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
475 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
482 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
484 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
488 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
491 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
495 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
498 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
503 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
507 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
508 installed. Closes: #342033
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
512 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
515 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
516 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
517 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
522 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
528 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
534 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
538 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
539 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
540 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
544 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
547 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
552 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
559 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
565 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
567 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
568 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
569 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
570 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
571 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
572 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
573 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
574 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
576 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
580 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
583 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
584 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
588 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
591 in standard man dirs.
592 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
596 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
602 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
605 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
610 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
617 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
624 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
627 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
628 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
632 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
634 * NMU with maintainer approval.
635 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
636 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
637 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
639 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
641 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
647 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
653 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
656 mode. Closes: #324161
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
660 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
663 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
664 behavior change. Closes: #249815
665 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
666 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
671 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
674 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
675 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
676 is necesary for sanity.
677 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
678 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
683 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
685 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
686 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
690 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
693 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
697 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
703 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
706 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
707 released, so use at your own risk.
708 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
709 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
711 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
712 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
713 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
714 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
715 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
716 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
717 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
718 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
719 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
720 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
721 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
722 including twice per config file line now..
723 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
724 and simplfy the rules file.
725 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
726 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
727 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
729 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
730 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
734 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
737 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
741 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
744 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
748 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
750 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
751 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
755 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
758 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
759 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
760 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
761 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
762 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
763 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
767 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
770 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
771 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
772 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
777 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
780 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
781 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
786 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
789 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
790 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
791 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
796 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
799 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
800 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
801 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
805 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
811 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
818 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
821 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
822 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
823 unknown. Closes: #282924
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
827 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
834 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Spanish man page updates.
837 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
842 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
844 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
848 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
851 * dh_desktop: reindent
852 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
853 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
857 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
863 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
865 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
869 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
871 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
875 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
878 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
879 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
883 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
889 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
895 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
902 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
905 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
909 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
912 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
913 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
914 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
915 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
916 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
917 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
919 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
920 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
921 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
922 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
923 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
924 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
925 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
926 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
927 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
928 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
929 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
930 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
931 in the others, and added a few new tests.
932 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
933 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
934 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
938 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
945 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
948 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
952 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
955 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
959 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
962 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
966 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
968 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
969 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
973 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
979 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
985 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
991 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
994 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
995 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
996 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1000 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1003 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1007 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1010 but occasionally right and necessary.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1014 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1017 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1018 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1019 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1020 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1021 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1025 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1028 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1030 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1031 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1032 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1033 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1034 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1035 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1036 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1037 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1038 postinst scripts for udebs.
1039 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1043 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1046 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1048 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1049 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1053 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1059 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1066 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1073 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1076 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1080 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1083 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1087 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1090 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1093 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1094 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1098 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1104 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1107 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1111 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1114 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1115 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1116 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1118 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1120 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1121 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1122 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1126 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1129 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1134 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1137 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1138 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1139 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1144 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1150 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1156 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1159 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1160 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1161 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1162 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1163 associated -dbg packages.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1167 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1170 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1174 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1177 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1181 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1184 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1188 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1191 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1196 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1199 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1203 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1206 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1211 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1214 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1218 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1222 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1223 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1224 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1225 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1226 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1227 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1228 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1229 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1230 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1231 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1235 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1238 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1243 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1246 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1247 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1251 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1254 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1255 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1260 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1263 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1267 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1270 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1274 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1277 out section number. Closes: #204731
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1281 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1288 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1294 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1300 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1303 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1304 removal. Closes: #204286
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1308 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1311 renaming. Closes: #203548
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1315 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1318 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1319 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1323 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1329 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1335 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1341 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1344 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1345 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1346 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1350 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1353 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1354 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1358 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1364 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1371 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1374 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1379 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1382 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1386 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1389 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1391 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1392 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1396 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1399 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1404 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1407 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1411 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1417 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1419 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1423 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1426 it break hard links (see #188663).
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1430 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1433 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1437 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1443 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1447 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1448 debconf-mergetemplates
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1452 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1455 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1459 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1462 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1466 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1469 * Update debhelper(1).
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1473 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1476 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1477 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1478 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1479 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1480 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1484 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1487 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1488 the shell. Closes: #178524
1489 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1493 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1496 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1500 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1503 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1507 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1510 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1511 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1512 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1513 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1518 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1521 files from installation.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1525 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1528 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1529 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1533 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1536 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1540 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1543 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1547 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1553 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1559 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1563 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1564 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1566 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1570 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1573 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1574 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1575 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1576 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1580 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1583 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1587 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1590 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1591 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1595 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1599 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1604 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1610 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1614 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1615 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1616 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1621 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1624 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1625 practice. Closes: #163303
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1629 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1635 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1642 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1645 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1647 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1648 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1649 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1650 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1651 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1655 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1658 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1663 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1669 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1676 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1679 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1684 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1690 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1696 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1702 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1709 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1712 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1713 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1714 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1715 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1720 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1726 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1733 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1736 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1737 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1741 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1744 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1745 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1746 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1747 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1748 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1752 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1755 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1757 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1762 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1765 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1769 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1772 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1773 right thing. Closes: #150644
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1777 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Stupid, evil typo.
1780 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1784 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1791 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1794 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1795 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1800 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1806 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1809 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1813 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1816 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1817 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1822 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1825 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1829 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1835 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1838 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1839 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1849 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Removing perl warning message.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1855 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1858 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1859 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1860 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1861 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1862 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1863 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1864 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1865 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1869 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1875 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1882 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1885 debconf-mergetemplate.
1886 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1887 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1891 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1894 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1895 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1896 dh_install, which ...
1897 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1898 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1899 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1900 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1901 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1902 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1903 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1904 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1905 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1906 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1907 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1908 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1909 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1910 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1911 other minor changes.
1912 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1913 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1914 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1915 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1916 course there's -X ..)
1917 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1918 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1919 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1921 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1922 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1923 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1924 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1925 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1930 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1936 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1939 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1943 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1949 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1955 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1961 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1967 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1970 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1971 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1972 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1973 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1975 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1976 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1980 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1986 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1989 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1993 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1996 upset. Closes: #131322
1998 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2000 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2003 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2004 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2005 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2006 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2007 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2008 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2009 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2010 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2011 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2012 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2013 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2014 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2015 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2016 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2017 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2019 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2023 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2026 - Better indenting of generated code.
2027 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2031 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2035 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2036 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2037 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2038 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2039 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2040 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2041 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2045 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2048 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2052 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2055 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2056 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2057 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2058 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2059 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2060 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2061 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2062 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2063 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2064 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2065 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2066 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2067 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2068 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2069 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2074 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2080 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2083 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2084 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2088 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2091 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2092 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2096 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2102 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2105 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2106 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2107 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2108 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2109 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2114 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2120 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2123 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2127 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2130 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2135 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2141 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2144 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2148 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2154 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2158 Also some indentation fixes.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2162 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2165 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2166 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2167 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2168 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2169 Closes: #106514, #85520
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2173 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2179 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2185 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2191 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2197 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2203 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2206 change it in debhelper v4..
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2210 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2216 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2219 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2223 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2226 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2230 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2236 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2239 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2240 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2241 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2242 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2243 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2244 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2245 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2246 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2247 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2248 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2249 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2250 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2254 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2257 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2261 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2268 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2271 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2272 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2273 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2274 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2275 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2276 program those options go to. So, for example,
2277 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2278 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2279 something complex. Closes: #89311
2280 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2284 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2287 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2288 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2289 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2293 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2296 through loop. Closes: #98598
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2300 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Missing semi-colon.
2303 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2304 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2308 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2311 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2312 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2313 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2317 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2320 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2321 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2325 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2328 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2332 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2335 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2336 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2340 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2343 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2344 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2345 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2349 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2352 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2353 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2354 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2358 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2361 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2365 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2371 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2377 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2383 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2389 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2392 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2396 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2399 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2400 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2401 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2402 followed. Closes: #85483
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2406 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2408 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2409 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2410 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2414 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2417 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2418 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2419 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2420 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2421 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2422 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2423 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2424 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2425 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2426 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2427 Closes: #88464, #77743
2428 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2429 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2430 us to deal with that gracefully.
2431 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2433 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2434 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2435 a while, Closes: #51225
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2439 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2445 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2448 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2452 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2456 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2461 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2464 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2465 don't make packlist files.
2466 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2467 debhelper coding standards.
2468 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2469 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2473 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2476 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2480 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2483 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2484 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2485 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2486 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2487 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2488 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2489 but is mildly deprecated.
2490 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2491 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2492 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2493 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2494 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2495 switching to statoverrides..
2496 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2497 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2498 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2499 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2500 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2501 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2503 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2504 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2505 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2506 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2507 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2508 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2509 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2510 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2511 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2513 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2514 variable names, pod man pages).
2515 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2516 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2517 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2518 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2519 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2520 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2521 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2525 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2531 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2538 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2541 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2545 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2547 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2548 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2549 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2553 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2555 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2556 they were previously ignored.
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2560 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2562 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2563 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2567 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2569 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2570 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2571 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2575 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2577 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2581 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2583 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2584 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2588 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2590 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2591 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2592 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2593 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2594 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2595 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2596 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2597 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2598 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2599 it is an obsolete program.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2603 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2605 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2609 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2613 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2615 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2619 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2621 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2623 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2625 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2629 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2635 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * typo: Closes, #78567
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2641 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2647 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2653 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2656 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2657 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2658 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2659 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2660 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2664 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2667 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2672 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2675 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2676 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2677 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2678 backwards-compatability.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2682 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2685 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2686 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2687 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2688 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2689 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2690 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2692 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2693 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2694 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2696 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2698 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2699 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2700 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2701 should now be raised to severity important..
2702 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2703 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2707 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2710 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2715 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2721 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2727 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2733 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2740 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2743 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2744 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2745 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2746 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2750 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2756 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2759 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2760 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2761 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2762 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2763 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2764 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2769 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2772 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2776 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2782 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2785 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2790 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2793 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2794 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2795 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2796 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2800 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2804 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2807 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2810 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2811 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2814 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2816 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2817 the TODO entry about it.
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2821 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2828 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2831 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2832 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2836 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2839 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2840 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2841 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2842 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2846 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2852 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2859 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2862 (this appears to be logal).
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2866 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2869 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2870 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2871 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2872 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2876 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2882 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2885 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2886 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2887 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2888 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2892 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2898 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2901 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2905 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2912 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2915 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2916 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2917 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2922 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2929 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2935 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2938 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2939 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2940 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2941 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2942 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2943 notice until v2 is complete.
2944 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2945 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2946 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2947 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2948 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2949 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2951 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2952 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2953 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2954 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2958 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2964 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2971 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2974 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2978 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2985 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2988 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2989 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2990 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2991 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2996 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2999 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3000 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3001 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3006 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3009 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3010 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3014 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3017 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3021 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3024 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3028 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3035 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3038 depend on the build and install targets.
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3042 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3045 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3049 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3056 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3062 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3068 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3071 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3072 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3073 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3074 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3075 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3076 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3078 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3079 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3080 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3081 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3082 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3083 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3084 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3088 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3094 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3100 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3103 right place. Closes: #55065
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3107 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3114 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3117 * Copyright date updates.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3121 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3124 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3129 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3135 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3142 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3148 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3154 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3160 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3163 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3164 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3165 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3166 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3167 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3168 bits until all files have been registered.
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3172 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * dh_installmanpages:
3175 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3176 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3177 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3178 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3179 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3180 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3181 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3182 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3183 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3184 otherwise change the result at all.
3186 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3187 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3188 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3189 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3190 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3195 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3201 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3204 act on files that don't exist.
3205 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3206 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3207 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3209 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3210 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3211 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3212 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3216 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3222 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3228 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3231 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3235 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3238 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3240 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3241 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3242 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3246 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3249 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3250 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3251 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3252 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3253 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3254 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3255 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3257 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3259 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3263 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3270 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3276 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3282 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3285 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3289 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3295 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3301 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3304 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3305 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3306 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3307 I made some changes, though:
3308 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3309 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3310 that is a clear violation of policy.
3311 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3312 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3313 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3314 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3315 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3316 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3317 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3318 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3319 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3321 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3325 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3331 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3334 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3338 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3341 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3342 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3347 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3353 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3360 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3363 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3364 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3365 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3366 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3367 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3368 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3369 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3373 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3379 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3383 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3384 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3388 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3394 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3397 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3401 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3404 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3405 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3409 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3411 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3416 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3420 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3424 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3427 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3428 for the dependancies to be generated.
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3432 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3435 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3439 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3442 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3443 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3444 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3449 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3452 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3453 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3457 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3463 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3469 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3472 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3476 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3482 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3485 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3486 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3487 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3488 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3489 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3490 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3491 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3492 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3493 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3494 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3495 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3496 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3500 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3503 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3504 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3506 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3507 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3508 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3509 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3510 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3511 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3513 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3514 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3518 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3521 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3525 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3532 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3535 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3540 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3543 for building debhelper.
3544 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3548 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3555 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3558 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3562 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3565 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3566 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3567 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3568 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3569 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3570 it's always available.
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3574 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3577 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3578 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3579 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3583 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3586 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3587 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3591 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3597 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3600 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3604 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3610 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3613 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3614 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3615 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3619 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3622 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3627 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3630 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3631 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3633 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3634 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3638 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3644 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3650 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3653 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3657 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3660 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3661 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3663 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3667 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3670 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3671 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3672 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3676 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3679 things if CDPATH is set.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3683 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3689 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3692 seems to make sense for the transition.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3696 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3699 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3704 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3707 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3708 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3712 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3715 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3719 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3722 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3723 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3724 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3725 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3729 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3735 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3738 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3739 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3740 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3741 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3742 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3743 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3744 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3745 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3746 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3747 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3752 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3755 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3756 * README: mention doc/v2
3757 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3758 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3762 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3764 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3765 be using this script RSN.
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3769 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3772 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3773 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3774 more than 1 init script.
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3778 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3781 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3785 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * Changed perl version detection.
3788 * Changed call to find.
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3792 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3795 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3797 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3802 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * Really include dh_installpam.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3808 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3811 * Wrote man page for same.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3815 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3818 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3819 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3824 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3831 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3834 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3835 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3836 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3837 x bit was being set!
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3841 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3844 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3845 well. (Closes: 38900)
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3849 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3852 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3853 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3857 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3863 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3870 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3876 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3879 help from Julian Gilbey.
3880 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3881 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3882 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3883 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3884 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3885 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3886 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3891 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3897 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3904 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3910 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3916 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3919 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3923 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3926 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3930 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3933 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3937 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3943 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3946 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3950 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3956 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3962 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3965 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3966 may be deleted. (#35845)
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3970 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * Various man page enhancements.
3973 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3978 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3981 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3982 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3986 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3989 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3990 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3991 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3993 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3994 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3999 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4005 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * Another very minor typo fix.
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4011 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * Very minor typo fix.
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4017 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4020 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4021 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4025 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4031 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4034 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4035 variables properly (#34850).
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4039 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4045 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4048 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4049 (automatically generated by build process).
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4053 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4055 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4059 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4062 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4063 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4065 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4069 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4072 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4076 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * README: minor typo fix.
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4082 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4085 leave it at that. :-)
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4089 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4095 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4101 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4104 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4105 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4106 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4110 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4113 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4117 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4120 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4124 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4127 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4128 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4129 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4130 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4134 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4137 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4138 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4139 Craig Small for spotting this.
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4143 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4146 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4147 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4151 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4157 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4160 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4164 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4166 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4167 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4168 working on the last version of debhelper.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4172 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4175 being made. (#23255)
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4179 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4185 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4188 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4192 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4195 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4196 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4197 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4198 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4202 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4205 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4206 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4207 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4208 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4210 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4211 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4213 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4218 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4224 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4230 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4233 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4234 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4235 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4236 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4237 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4238 suidregister actually supports it.
4239 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4240 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4244 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4251 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4254 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4255 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4256 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4257 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4258 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4259 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4260 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4264 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4266 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4267 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4271 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4274 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4275 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4276 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4277 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4281 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4284 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4286 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4287 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4288 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4289 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4290 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4291 effect, either. (#30118)
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4295 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4301 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4304 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4305 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4309 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4315 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4318 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4319 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4320 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4321 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4325 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4328 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4329 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4333 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4339 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4342 packages, painlessly.
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4346 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4352 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4358 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4364 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * The perl conversion is complete.
4368 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4370 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4371 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4372 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4377 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4380 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4381 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4382 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4386 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4389 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4391 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4393 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4394 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4398 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4401 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4402 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4406 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4412 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4415 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4416 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4417 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4418 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4419 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4423 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4426 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4427 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4428 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4429 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4433 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4436 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4440 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4443 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4444 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4445 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4446 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4447 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4448 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4449 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4450 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4454 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4460 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4463 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4464 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4465 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4470 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4473 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4477 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4480 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4484 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4487 sections of shared libraries.
4488 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4489 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4490 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4491 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4492 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4493 things you don't want them to.
4494 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4495 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4499 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4502 shared libraries. (#26414)
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4506 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4508 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4509 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4510 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4511 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4515 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4519 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4521 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4522 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4523 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4524 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4525 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4529 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4532 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4536 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4539 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4540 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4545 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4548 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4552 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4555 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4556 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4557 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4558 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4559 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4561 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4562 remove debian/files properly.
4563 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4564 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4565 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4566 * Removed bogus menu file.
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4570 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4573 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4577 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4579 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4580 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4581 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4582 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4583 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4584 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4585 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4589 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4592 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4593 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4594 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4595 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4599 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4606 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4609 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4610 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4612 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4613 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4614 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4615 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4616 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4617 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4621 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4624 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4625 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4626 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4627 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4628 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4629 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4630 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4631 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4632 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4633 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4634 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4635 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4636 passed any switches.
4637 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4641 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4644 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4645 at all for a long while.
4646 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4647 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4648 large chunks in the process.
4649 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4650 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4651 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4656 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4659 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4661 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4666 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4669 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4670 that don't always have the same files in them.
4671 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4672 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4673 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4677 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4681 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4682 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4683 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4684 updating 27 man pages.
4685 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4686 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4687 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4688 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4689 programs act on. (#25247)
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4693 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4697 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4698 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4699 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4700 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4701 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4702 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4707 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4714 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4721 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4724 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4728 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4734 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4737 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4738 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4739 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4740 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4741 package by accident.
4742 * Is version 1.0 next?
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4746 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4749 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4750 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4754 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4757 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4758 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4759 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4760 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4761 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4763 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4768 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4771 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4772 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4776 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4779 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4783 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4786 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4787 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4792 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4798 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4801 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4802 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4807 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4813 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4816 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4817 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4818 past week. Thanks, guys!
4820 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4821 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4822 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4823 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4824 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4825 would do in the same situation.
4826 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4827 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4829 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4831 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4832 permissions changed.
4833 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4834 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4835 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4836 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4837 files are treated identically.
4838 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4839 * Minor man page fixes.
4840 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4841 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4842 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4846 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4849 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4850 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4851 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4852 use -X multiple times, too.
4853 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4854 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4858 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4861 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4862 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4866 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4869 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4873 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4876 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4877 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4878 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4879 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4880 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4881 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4882 shape if you're starting a new package.
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4886 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4889 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4893 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4896 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4897 because of missing symlinks.
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4901 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4907 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4910 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4911 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4912 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4913 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4914 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4916 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4917 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4921 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4923 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4924 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4925 to be changed after the fact :-)
4926 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4930 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4932 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4933 no version string after the -V.
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4937 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4939 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4940 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4945 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4948 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4952 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4955 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4956 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4957 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4958 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4959 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4960 I always welcome corrections!
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4964 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4970 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4973 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4974 * Documented this new switch.
4976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4978 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4980 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4981 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4982 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4983 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4984 no packages use the old behavior.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4988 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4991 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4992 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4996 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4999 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5003 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5009 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5012 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5016 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5019 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5020 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5021 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5025 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5031 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5034 into the source package by accident.
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5038 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5041 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5042 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5043 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5044 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5045 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5046 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5051 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5055 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5056 inspired to implement some of it.
5057 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5061 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5064 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5068 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5071 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5072 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5076 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5079 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5080 have done.) (#17598)
5082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5084 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5086 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5090 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5096 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5099 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5103 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5106 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5107 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5111 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5114 argument processor in perl.
5115 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5116 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5117 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5118 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5122 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5125 type directories. (#16933)
5126 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5127 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5128 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5129 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5130 are supported. (#16935)
5131 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5136 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5139 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5143 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5147 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5148 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5149 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5150 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5151 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5152 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5156 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5159 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5160 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5162 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5163 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5164 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5165 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5166 a given package, or -i or -a.
5167 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5168 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5169 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5170 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5171 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5172 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5173 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5174 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5175 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5177 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5178 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5179 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5183 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5186 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5187 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5192 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5195 does not have a section.
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5199 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5202 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5203 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5204 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5208 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * Fixed typo #16215.
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5214 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5217 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5218 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5219 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5220 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5221 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5226 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5229 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5230 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5231 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5236 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5242 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5248 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5251 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5252 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5253 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5254 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5255 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5256 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5260 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5266 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5269 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5273 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5276 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5277 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5278 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5282 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5285 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5289 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5295 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5298 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5302 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5305 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5309 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5315 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5318 postinst, postrm, etc.
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5322 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5328 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5331 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5332 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5333 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5334 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5335 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5339 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5342 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5343 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5347 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5349 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5350 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5354 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5357 installing package files into.
5358 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5363 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5367 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5371 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5377 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5379 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5380 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5384 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5387 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5388 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5389 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5390 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5394 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5396 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5397 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5398 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5399 multiple binary packages.
5400 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5401 should rebuild them with this version.
5402 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5406 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5409 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5413 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5416 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5420 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5423 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5424 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5425 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5426 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5427 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5428 debian/README.debian.
5429 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5430 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5431 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5432 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5433 in a few situations.)
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5437 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5443 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5449 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5452 * Fixed several man pages.
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5456 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5459 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5460 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5464 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5467 is ready for general use.
5468 * Added man pages for all commands.
5469 * Multiple binary package support.
5470 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5471 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5472 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5474 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5475 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5476 auto-installed as parameters.
5477 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5479 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5482 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5483 the package build directory it is to act on.
5484 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5485 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5486 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5490 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5492 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5493 ready to replace debstd.
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400