1 debhelper (7.4.13) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:34:30 -0500
7 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
10 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
11 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
12 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
13 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
14 options that they do not support.
15 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
16 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
17 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
18 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
19 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
20 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
25 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
29 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
30 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
31 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
32 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
33 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
34 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
35 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
36 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
37 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
41 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
44 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
45 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
46 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
47 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
51 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
53 * Typo. Closes: #558654
54 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
55 installed. Closes: #558782
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
59 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
62 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
63 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
64 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
65 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
66 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
70 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
72 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
73 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
74 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
75 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
79 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
82 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
83 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
87 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
89 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
93 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
95 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
96 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
97 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
98 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
99 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
100 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
101 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
102 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
103 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
104 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
105 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
106 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
107 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
108 time soon.) Closes: #554509
109 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
111 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
112 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
113 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
114 document id. Closes: #555677
115 * Typo. Closes: #555659
116 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
117 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
118 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
119 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
121 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
122 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
123 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
128 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
131 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
132 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
133 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
134 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
135 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
136 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
137 translation (#494300 part 2)
140 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
142 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
143 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
144 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
145 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
146 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
150 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
153 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
154 (It was only run once due to logging.)
155 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
156 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
157 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
158 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
159 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
160 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
161 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
162 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
163 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
164 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
168 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
172 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
175 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
176 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
180 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
183 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
184 flag with arch all/any packages.
185 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
186 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
187 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
188 situation. Closes: #540794
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
192 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
196 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
197 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
198 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
199 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
200 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
203 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
204 the default. Closes: #538201
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
209 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
211 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
213 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
214 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
215 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
216 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
217 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
219 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
220 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
221 * Above Closes: #491117
222 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
227 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
233 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
234 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
235 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
239 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
242 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
243 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
244 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
245 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
246 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
251 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
254 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
255 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
259 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
261 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
265 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
267 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
268 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
270 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
271 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
272 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
276 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
278 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
279 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
283 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
289 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
291 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
292 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
293 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
298 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
300 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
304 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
307 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
308 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
309 created by using `python' first during build and install.
311 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
316 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
318 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
322 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
324 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
325 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
329 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
331 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
335 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
337 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
341 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
343 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
344 contributed by Modestas Vainius
345 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
346 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
347 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
348 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
349 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
350 that support it. Closes: #480577
351 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
352 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
353 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
355 - Adds support for cmake.
356 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
357 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
359 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
361 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
362 that use them. The options are:
363 --sourcedir, --destdir
364 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
365 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
366 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
367 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
368 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
372 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
378 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
380 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
381 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
382 default. Closes: #537140
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
386 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
389 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
390 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
394 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
396 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
397 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
401 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
404 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
408 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
411 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
413 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
414 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
415 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
419 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
422 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
423 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
424 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
428 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
431 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
432 warning or deprecation message.
433 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
434 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
435 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
436 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
437 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
438 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
439 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
440 Closes: #534639, #357434
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
444 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
450 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
453 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
454 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
455 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
456 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
458 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
459 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
460 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
464 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
470 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
477 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
480 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
484 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
488 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
489 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
491 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
492 file support. Closes: #494914
493 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
497 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
500 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
501 parameters. Closes: #527256
502 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
503 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
504 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
508 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
512 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
513 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
514 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
518 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
521 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
522 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
523 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
527 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
530 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
531 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
533 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
534 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
535 by triggers). Closes: #521181
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
539 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
543 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
547 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
550 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
551 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
552 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
553 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
558 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
564 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
567 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
568 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
569 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
570 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
571 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
573 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
574 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
575 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
576 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
577 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
578 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
582 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
585 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
586 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
587 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
588 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
589 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
591 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
595 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
597 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
601 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
603 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
604 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
605 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
606 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
607 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
608 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
609 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
610 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
611 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
612 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
613 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
617 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
619 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
620 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
622 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
623 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
624 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
625 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
627 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
628 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
632 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
634 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
635 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
636 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
637 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
638 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
639 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
640 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
642 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
643 that uses them. Affected options are:
644 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
645 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
646 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
647 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
648 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
649 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
650 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
651 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
652 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
653 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
654 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
655 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
659 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
661 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
666 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
672 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
674 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
675 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
677 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
678 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
679 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
680 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
681 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
683 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
685 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
686 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
687 rules (see bug #509756).
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
691 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
697 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
698 * Typo. Closes: #493062
699 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
700 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
704 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
707 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
708 empty files. Closes: #490937
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
712 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
718 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
725 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
728 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
729 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
730 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
731 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
736 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
738 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
739 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
740 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
741 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
745 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
747 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
748 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
749 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
750 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
751 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
752 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
756 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
763 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
765 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
766 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
767 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
768 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
769 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
770 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
771 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
772 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
773 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
774 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
778 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
781 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
782 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
783 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
784 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
786 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
787 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
788 breaking backwards compatibility.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
792 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
795 message in perl 5.10.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
799 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
805 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
807 * Convert copyright file to new format.
808 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
812 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
814 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
815 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
819 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
822 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
823 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
824 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
825 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
826 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
827 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
828 logging by dh_listpackages.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
832 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
834 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
835 run and there are no packages of that type.
836 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
837 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
838 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
839 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
841 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
842 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
846 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
848 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
849 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
850 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
854 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
856 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
857 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
858 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
860 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
861 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
862 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
863 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
864 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
865 planned but not yet implemented.)
866 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
867 if the Makefile has such a target.
868 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
869 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
870 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
871 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
872 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
873 but not yet implemented.)
874 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
875 recommended default, especially when using dh.
876 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
877 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
878 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
880 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
882 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
883 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
885 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
886 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
887 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
892 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
895 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
896 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
900 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
902 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
903 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
904 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
908 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
914 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
920 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
923 just those installed by the program.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
927 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
930 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
931 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
935 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
938 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
939 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
940 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
941 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
945 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
948 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
949 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
953 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
956 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
957 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
961 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
964 with policy. Closes: #461392
965 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
966 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
967 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
968 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
969 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
973 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
976 Closes: #460340, #460351
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
980 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
983 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
984 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
985 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
986 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
990 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
993 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
994 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
995 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
996 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
997 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
998 package build directory won't work.
999 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1000 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1001 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1002 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1003 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1004 mode. Closes: #459426
1005 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1010 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1013 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1017 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1021 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1022 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1023 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1024 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1025 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1026 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1030 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1033 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1034 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1035 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1036 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1040 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1043 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1044 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1045 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1046 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1047 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1051 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1054 debian/package.triggers files.
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1058 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1061 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1065 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1068 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1069 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1070 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1071 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1076 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1079 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1083 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1086 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1087 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1089 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1094 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1098 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1099 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1100 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1104 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1111 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1118 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1121 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1123 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1124 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1125 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1127 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1128 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1129 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1133 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1136 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1137 * Update urls to web page.
1138 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1139 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1140 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1141 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1145 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1148 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1149 - typo in alternatives call
1150 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1152 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1153 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1157 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1160 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1165 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1171 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1177 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1180 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1182 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1183 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1184 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1185 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1186 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1187 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1188 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1189 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1190 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1191 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1192 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1196 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1199 package install. Closes: #415717
1200 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1201 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1202 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1203 script and then remove the python files.
1204 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1205 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1206 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1207 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1208 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1209 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1210 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1211 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1212 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1213 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1214 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1215 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1216 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1220 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Correct typo in french translation
1226 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1227 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1229 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1231 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1232 Closes: #406921, #381940
1233 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1235 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1236 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1237 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1238 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1239 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1240 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1241 specified). Closes: #381851
1242 * Misc minor changes.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1246 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1253 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1254 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1258 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1264 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1265 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1268 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1269 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1271 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1272 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1273 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1274 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1278 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1281 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1284 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1288 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1294 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1300 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1301 a difficult situation.
1302 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1303 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1304 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1305 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1306 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1307 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1308 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1309 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1310 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1311 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1315 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Non-maintainer upload.
1318 * Update of dh_python
1319 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1320 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1322 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1323 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1324 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1325 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1326 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1328 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1330 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Non-maintainer upload.
1333 * Update of dh_python
1334 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1335 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1336 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1337 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1338 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1339 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1340 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1341 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1342 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1343 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1345 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1346 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1347 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1348 the not too-distant future).
1349 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1350 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1351 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1352 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1353 thus made the build fail.
1355 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1357 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Non-maintainer upload.
1360 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1362 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1364 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1367 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1368 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1369 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1370 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1371 package. Closes: #301424
1372 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1373 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1374 fonts). Closes: #372686
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1378 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1384 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1385 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1386 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1387 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1388 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1389 above, but already depends on that.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1393 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1396 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1397 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1398 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1399 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1400 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1404 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1410 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1416 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1417 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1421 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1424 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1428 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1432 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1433 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1434 new version (0.24.1).
1435 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1436 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1439 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1440 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1441 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1442 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1443 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1444 new directory on their own.
1445 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1446 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1450 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1453 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1454 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1455 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1456 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1460 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1463 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1464 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1465 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1466 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1467 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1471 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1477 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1481 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1482 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1486 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1487 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1491 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1493 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1494 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1496 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1497 ignored. Closes: #337664
1499 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1504 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1510 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1515 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1516 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1517 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1518 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1519 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1520 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1521 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1525 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1528 version. Closes: #350607
1529 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1530 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1531 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1532 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1536 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1539 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1540 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1541 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1545 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1552 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1558 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1561 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1565 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1568 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1569 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1570 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1571 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1572 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1573 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1577 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1580 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1581 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1586 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1589 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1593 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1596 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1600 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1603 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1604 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1605 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1606 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1607 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1608 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1612 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1616 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1617 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1618 link. Closes: #346405
1619 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1621 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1622 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1623 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1624 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1625 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1626 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1627 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1631 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1638 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1644 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1647 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1651 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1654 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1659 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1663 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1664 installed. Closes: #342033
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1668 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1671 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1672 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1673 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1678 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1684 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1690 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1694 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1695 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1696 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1700 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1703 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1708 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1715 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1721 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1724 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1725 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1726 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1727 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1728 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1729 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1730 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1732 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1736 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1739 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1740 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1744 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1747 in standard man dirs.
1748 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1752 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1758 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1761 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1766 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1773 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1780 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1783 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1784 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1788 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1791 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1792 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1793 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1795 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1797 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1803 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1809 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1812 mode. Closes: #324161
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1816 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1819 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1820 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1821 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1822 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1827 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1830 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1831 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1832 is necesary for sanity.
1833 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1834 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1839 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1841 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1842 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1846 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1849 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1853 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1859 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1862 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1863 released, so use at your own risk.
1864 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1865 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1867 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1868 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1869 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1870 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1871 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1872 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1873 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1874 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1875 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1876 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1877 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1878 including twice per config file line now..
1879 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1880 and simplfy the rules file.
1881 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1882 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1883 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1885 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1886 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1890 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1893 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1897 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1900 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1904 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1907 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1911 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1914 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1915 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1916 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1917 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1918 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1919 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1923 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1926 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1927 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1928 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1933 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1936 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1937 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1942 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1945 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1946 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1947 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1952 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1955 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1956 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1957 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1961 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1967 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1974 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1977 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1978 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1979 unknown. Closes: #282924
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1983 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1990 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Spanish man page updates.
1993 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2004 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2007 * dh_desktop: reindent
2008 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2009 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2013 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2019 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2021 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2025 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2027 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2031 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2034 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2035 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2039 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2045 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2051 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2058 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2061 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2065 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2068 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2069 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2070 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2071 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2072 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2073 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2075 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2076 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2077 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2078 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2079 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2080 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2081 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2082 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2083 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2084 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2085 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2086 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2087 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2088 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2089 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2090 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2101 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2104 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2108 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2111 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2115 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2118 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2122 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2125 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2129 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2135 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2141 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2147 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2150 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2151 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2152 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2156 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2159 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2163 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2166 but occasionally right and necessary.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2170 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2173 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2174 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2175 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2176 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2177 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2181 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2184 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2186 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2187 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2188 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2189 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2190 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2191 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2192 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2193 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2194 postinst scripts for udebs.
2195 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2199 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2202 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2204 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2205 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2209 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2215 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2222 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2229 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2232 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2236 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2239 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2243 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2246 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2249 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2250 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2254 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2260 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2263 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2267 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2270 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2271 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2272 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2274 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2276 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2277 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2278 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2282 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2285 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2290 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2293 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2294 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2295 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2300 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2306 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2312 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2315 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2316 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2317 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2318 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2319 associated -dbg packages.
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2323 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2326 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2330 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2333 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2337 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2340 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2344 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2347 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2352 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2355 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2359 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2362 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2367 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2370 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2374 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2378 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2379 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2380 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2381 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2382 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2383 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2384 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2385 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2386 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2387 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2394 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2399 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2402 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2403 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2407 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2410 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2411 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2416 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2419 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2423 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2426 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2433 out section number. Closes: #204731
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2444 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2456 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2459 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2460 removal. Closes: #204286
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2464 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2467 renaming. Closes: #203548
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2471 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2474 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2475 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2479 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2485 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2491 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2497 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2500 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2501 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2502 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2506 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2509 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2510 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2514 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2520 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2527 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2530 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2535 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2538 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2542 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2545 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2547 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2548 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2555 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2560 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2563 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2567 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2573 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2575 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2579 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2582 it break hard links (see #188663).
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2586 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2589 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2593 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2599 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2603 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2604 debconf-mergetemplates
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2608 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2611 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2615 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2618 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2622 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2625 * Update debhelper(1).
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2629 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2632 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2633 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2634 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2635 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2636 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2640 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2643 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2644 the shell. Closes: #178524
2645 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2649 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2652 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2656 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2659 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2663 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2666 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2667 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2668 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2669 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2674 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2677 files from installation.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2681 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2684 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2685 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2689 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2692 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2696 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2699 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2703 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2709 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2715 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2719 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2720 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2722 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2726 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2729 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2730 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2731 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2732 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2736 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2739 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2743 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2746 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2747 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2751 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2755 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2760 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2766 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2770 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2771 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2772 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2777 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2780 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2781 practice. Closes: #163303
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2785 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2791 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2798 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2801 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2803 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2804 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2805 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2806 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2807 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2811 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2814 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2819 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2825 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2832 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2835 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2840 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2846 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2852 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2858 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2865 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2868 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2869 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2870 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2871 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2876 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2882 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2889 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2892 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2893 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2897 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2900 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2901 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2902 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2903 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2904 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2908 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2911 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2913 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2918 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2921 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2925 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2928 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2929 right thing. Closes: #150644
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2933 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Stupid, evil typo.
2936 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2940 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2947 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2950 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2951 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2956 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2962 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2965 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2972 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2973 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2978 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2981 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2985 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2991 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2994 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2995 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2999 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3005 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * Removing perl warning message.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3011 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3014 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3015 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3016 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3017 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3018 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3019 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3020 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3021 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3025 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3031 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3038 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3041 debconf-mergetemplate.
3042 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3043 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3047 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3050 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3051 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3052 dh_install, which ...
3053 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3054 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3055 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3056 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3057 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3058 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3059 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3060 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3061 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3062 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3063 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3064 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3065 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3066 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3067 other minor changes.
3068 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3069 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3070 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3071 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3072 course there's -X ..)
3073 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3074 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3075 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3077 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3078 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3079 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3080 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3081 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3086 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3092 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3095 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3099 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3105 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3111 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3117 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3123 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3126 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3127 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3128 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3129 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3131 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3132 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3136 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3142 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3145 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3149 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3152 upset. Closes: #131322
3154 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3156 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3159 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3160 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3161 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3162 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3163 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3164 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3165 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3166 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3167 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3168 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3169 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3170 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3171 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3172 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3173 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3175 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3179 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3182 - Better indenting of generated code.
3183 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3187 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3191 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3192 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3193 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3194 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3195 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3196 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3197 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3201 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3204 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3208 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3211 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3212 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3213 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3214 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3215 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3216 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3217 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3218 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3219 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3220 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3221 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3222 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3223 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3224 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3225 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3230 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3236 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3239 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3240 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3244 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3247 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3248 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3252 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3258 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3261 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3262 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3263 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3264 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3265 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3270 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3276 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3279 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3283 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3286 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3291 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3297 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3300 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3304 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3310 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3314 Also some indentation fixes.
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3318 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3321 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3322 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3323 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3324 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3325 Closes: #106514, #85520
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3329 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3335 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3341 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3347 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3353 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3359 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3362 change it in debhelper v4..
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3366 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3372 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3375 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3379 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3382 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3386 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3392 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3395 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3396 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3397 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3398 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3399 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3400 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3401 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3402 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3403 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3404 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3405 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3406 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3410 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3413 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3417 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3424 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3427 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3428 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3429 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3430 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3431 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3432 program those options go to. So, for example,
3433 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3434 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3435 something complex. Closes: #89311
3436 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3440 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3443 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3444 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3445 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3449 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3452 through loop. Closes: #98598
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3456 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * Missing semi-colon.
3459 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3460 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3464 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3467 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3468 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3469 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3473 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3476 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3477 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3481 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3484 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3488 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3491 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3492 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3496 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3499 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3500 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3501 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3505 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3508 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3509 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3510 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3514 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3517 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3521 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3527 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3533 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3539 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3545 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3548 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3552 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3555 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3556 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3557 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3558 followed. Closes: #85483
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3562 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3564 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3565 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3566 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3570 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3573 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3574 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3575 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3576 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3577 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3578 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3579 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3580 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3581 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3582 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3583 Closes: #88464, #77743
3584 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3585 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3586 us to deal with that gracefully.
3587 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3589 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3590 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3591 a while, Closes: #51225
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3595 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3601 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3604 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3608 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3612 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3617 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3620 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3621 don't make packlist files.
3622 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3623 debhelper coding standards.
3624 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3625 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3629 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3632 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3636 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3639 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3640 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3641 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3642 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3643 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3644 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3645 but is mildly deprecated.
3646 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3647 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3648 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3649 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3650 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3651 switching to statoverrides..
3652 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3653 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3654 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3655 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3656 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3657 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3659 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3660 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3661 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3662 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3663 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3664 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3665 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3666 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3667 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3669 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3670 variable names, pod man pages).
3671 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3672 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3673 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3674 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3675 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3676 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3677 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3681 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3687 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3694 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3697 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3701 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3703 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3704 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3705 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3709 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3711 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3712 they were previously ignored.
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3716 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3718 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3719 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3723 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3725 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3726 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3727 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3731 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3733 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3737 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3739 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3740 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3744 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3746 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3747 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3748 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3749 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3750 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3751 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3752 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3753 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3754 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3755 it is an obsolete program.
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3759 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3761 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3765 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3769 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3771 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3775 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3777 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3779 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3781 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3785 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3791 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * typo: Closes, #78567
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3797 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3803 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3809 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3812 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3813 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3814 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3815 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3816 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3820 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3823 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3828 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3831 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3832 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3833 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3834 backwards-compatibility.
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3838 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3841 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3842 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3843 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3844 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3845 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3846 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3848 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3849 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3850 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3852 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3854 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3855 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3856 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3857 should now be raised to severity important..
3858 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3859 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3863 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3866 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3871 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3877 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3883 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3889 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3896 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3899 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3900 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3901 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3902 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3906 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3912 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3915 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3916 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3917 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3918 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3919 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3920 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3925 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3928 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3932 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3938 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3941 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3946 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3949 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3950 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3951 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3952 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3956 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3960 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3963 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3966 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3967 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3970 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3972 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3973 the TODO entry about it.
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3977 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3984 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3987 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3988 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3992 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3995 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3996 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3997 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3998 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4002 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4008 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4015 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4018 (this appears to be logal).
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4022 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4025 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4026 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4027 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4028 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4032 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4038 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4041 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4042 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4043 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4044 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4048 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4054 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4057 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4061 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4068 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4071 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4072 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4073 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4078 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4085 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4091 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4094 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4095 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4096 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4097 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4098 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4099 notice until v2 is complete.
4100 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4101 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4102 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4103 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4104 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4105 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4107 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4108 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4109 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4110 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4114 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4120 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4127 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4130 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4134 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4141 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4144 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4145 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4146 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4147 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4152 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4155 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4156 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4157 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4162 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4165 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4166 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4170 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4173 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4177 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4179 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4180 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4184 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4191 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4194 depend on the build and install targets.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4198 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4201 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4205 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4218 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4224 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4227 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4228 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4229 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4230 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4231 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4232 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4234 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4235 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4236 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4237 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4238 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4239 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4240 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4244 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4250 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4256 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4259 right place. Closes: #55065
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4263 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4270 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4273 * Copyright date updates.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4277 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4280 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4285 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4291 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4298 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4304 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4310 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4316 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4319 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4320 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4321 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4322 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4323 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4324 bits until all files have been registered.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4328 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * dh_installmanpages:
4331 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4332 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4333 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4334 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4335 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4336 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4337 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4338 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4339 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4340 otherwise change the result at all.
4342 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4343 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4344 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4345 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4346 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4351 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4357 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4360 act on files that don't exist.
4361 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4362 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4363 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4365 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4366 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4367 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4368 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4372 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4378 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4384 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4387 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4391 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4394 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4396 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4397 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4398 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4402 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4405 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4406 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4407 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4408 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4409 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4410 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4411 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4413 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4415 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4419 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4426 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4432 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4438 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4441 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4445 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4451 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4457 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4460 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4461 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4462 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4463 I made some changes, though:
4464 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4465 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4466 that is a clear violation of policy.
4467 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4468 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4469 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4470 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4471 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4472 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4473 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4474 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4475 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4477 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4481 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4487 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4490 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4494 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4497 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4498 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4503 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4509 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4516 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4519 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4520 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4521 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4522 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4523 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4524 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4525 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4529 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4535 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4539 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4540 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4544 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4550 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4553 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4557 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4560 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4561 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4565 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4567 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4572 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4576 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4583 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4584 for the dependancies to be generated.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4588 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4591 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4595 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4598 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4599 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4600 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4605 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4607 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4608 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4609 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4613 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4619 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4625 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4628 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4632 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4638 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4641 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4642 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4643 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4644 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4645 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4646 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4647 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4648 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4649 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4650 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4651 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4652 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4656 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4659 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4660 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4662 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4663 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4664 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4665 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4666 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4667 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4669 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4670 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4674 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4677 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4681 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4688 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4691 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4696 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4699 for building debhelper.
4700 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4711 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4714 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4718 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4721 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4722 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4723 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4724 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4725 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4726 it's always available.
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4730 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4733 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4734 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4735 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4739 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4742 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4743 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4747 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4753 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4755 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4756 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4760 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4766 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4769 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4770 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4771 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4775 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4778 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4783 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4786 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4787 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4789 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4790 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4794 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4800 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4806 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4809 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4813 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4816 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4817 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4819 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4823 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4826 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4827 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4828 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4832 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4835 things if CDPATH is set.
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4839 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4845 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4848 seems to make sense for the transition.
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4852 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4855 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4860 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4863 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4864 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4868 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4871 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4875 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4878 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4879 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4880 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4881 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4885 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4891 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4894 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4895 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4896 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4897 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4898 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4899 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4900 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4901 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4902 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4903 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4908 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4911 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4912 * README: mention doc/v2
4913 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4914 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4918 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4920 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4921 be using this script RSN.
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4925 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4928 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4929 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4930 more than 1 init script.
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4934 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4937 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4941 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * Changed perl version detection.
4944 * Changed call to find.
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4948 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4951 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4953 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4958 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * Really include dh_installpam.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4964 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4967 * Wrote man page for same.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4971 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4974 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4975 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4980 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4987 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4990 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4991 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4992 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4993 x bit was being set!
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4997 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5000 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5001 well. (Closes: 38900)
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5005 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5008 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5009 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5013 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5019 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5026 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5032 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5035 help from Julian Gilbey.
5036 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5037 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5038 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5039 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5040 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5041 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5042 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5047 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5053 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5060 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5066 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5072 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5075 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5079 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5082 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5086 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5089 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5093 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5095 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5099 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5102 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5106 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5112 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5118 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5121 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5122 may be deleted. (#35845)
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5126 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * Various man page enhancements.
5129 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5134 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5137 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5138 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5142 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5145 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5146 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5147 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5149 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5150 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5155 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5161 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * Another very minor typo fix.
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5167 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * Very minor typo fix.
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5173 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5176 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5177 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5181 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5187 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5190 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5191 variables properly (#34850).
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5195 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5201 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5204 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5205 (automatically generated by build process).
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5209 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5211 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5215 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5218 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5219 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5221 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5225 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5228 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5232 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5234 * README: minor typo fix.
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5238 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5241 leave it at that. :-)
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5245 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5251 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5257 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5260 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5261 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5262 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5266 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5269 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5273 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5276 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5280 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5283 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5284 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5285 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5286 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5290 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5293 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5294 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5295 Craig Small for spotting this.
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5299 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5302 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5303 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5307 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5313 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5316 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5320 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5322 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5323 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5324 working on the last version of debhelper.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5328 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5331 being made. (#23255)
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5335 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5341 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5344 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5348 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5351 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5352 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5353 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5354 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5358 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5361 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5362 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5363 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5364 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5366 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5367 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5369 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5374 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5380 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5386 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5389 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5390 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5391 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5392 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5393 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5394 suidregister actually supports it.
5395 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5396 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5400 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5407 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5410 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5411 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5412 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5413 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5414 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5415 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5416 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5420 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5422 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5423 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5427 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5430 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5431 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5432 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5433 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5437 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5440 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5442 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5443 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5444 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5445 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5446 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5447 effect, either. (#30118)
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5451 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5457 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5460 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5461 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5465 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5471 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5474 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5475 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5476 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5477 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5481 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5484 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5485 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5489 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5495 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5498 packages, painlessly.
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5502 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5508 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5510 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5514 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5520 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * The perl conversion is complete.
5524 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5526 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5527 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5528 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5533 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5536 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5537 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5538 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5542 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5545 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5547 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5549 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5550 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5554 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5557 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5558 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5562 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5568 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5571 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5572 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5573 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5574 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5575 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5579 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5582 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5583 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5584 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5585 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5589 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5592 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5596 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5599 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5600 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5601 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5602 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5603 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5604 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5605 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5606 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5610 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5616 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5619 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5620 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5621 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5626 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5629 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5633 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5636 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5640 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5643 sections of shared libraries.
5644 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5645 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5646 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5647 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5648 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5649 things you don't want them to.
5650 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5651 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5655 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5657 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5658 shared libraries. (#26414)
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5662 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5664 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5665 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5666 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5667 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5671 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5675 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5677 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5678 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5679 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5680 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5681 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5685 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5688 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5692 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5695 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5696 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5701 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5704 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5708 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5711 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5712 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5713 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5714 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5715 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5717 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5718 remove debian/files properly.
5719 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5720 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5721 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5722 * Removed bogus menu file.
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5726 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5729 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5733 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5736 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5737 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5738 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5739 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5740 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5741 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5745 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5747 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5748 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5749 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5750 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5751 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5755 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5762 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5764 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5765 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5766 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5768 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5769 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5770 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5771 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5772 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5773 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5777 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5780 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5781 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5782 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5783 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5784 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5785 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5786 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5787 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5788 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5789 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5790 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5791 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5792 passed any switches.
5793 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5797 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5800 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5801 at all for a long while.
5802 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5803 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5804 large chunks in the process.
5805 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5806 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5807 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5812 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5814 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5815 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5817 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5822 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5824 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5825 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5826 that don't always have the same files in them.
5827 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5828 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5829 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5833 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5837 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5838 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5839 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5840 updating 27 man pages.
5841 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5842 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5843 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5844 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5845 programs act on. (#25247)
5847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5849 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5853 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5854 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5855 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5856 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5857 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5858 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5863 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5865 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5870 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5877 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5880 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5884 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5890 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5893 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5894 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5895 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5896 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5897 package by accident.
5898 * Is version 1.0 next?
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5902 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5905 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5906 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5910 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5912 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5913 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5914 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5915 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5916 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5917 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5919 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5924 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5926 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5927 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5928 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5932 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5935 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5939 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5941 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5942 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5943 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5948 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5954 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5956 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5957 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5958 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5963 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5965 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5969 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5971 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5972 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5973 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5974 past week. Thanks, guys!
5976 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5977 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5978 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5979 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5980 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5981 would do in the same situation.
5982 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5983 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5985 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5987 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5988 permissions changed.
5989 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5990 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5991 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5992 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5993 files are treated identically.
5994 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5995 * Minor man page fixes.
5996 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5997 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5998 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6002 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6005 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6006 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6007 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6008 use -X multiple times, too.
6009 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6010 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6014 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6017 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6018 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6022 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6025 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6029 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6031 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6032 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6033 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6034 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6035 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6036 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6037 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6038 shape if you're starting a new package.
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6042 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6045 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6049 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6052 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6053 because of missing symlinks.
6055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6057 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6059 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6063 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6065 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6066 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6067 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6068 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6069 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6070 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6072 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6073 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6077 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6079 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6080 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6081 to be changed after the fact :-)
6082 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6086 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6088 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6089 no version string after the -V.
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6093 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6095 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6096 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6101 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6103 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6104 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6108 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6110 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6111 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6112 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6113 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6114 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6115 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6116 I always welcome corrections!
6118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6120 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6122 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6126 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6129 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6130 * Documented this new switch.
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6134 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6137 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6138 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6139 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6140 no packages use the old behavior.
6142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6144 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6146 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6147 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6148 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6152 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6154 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6155 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6159 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6161 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6165 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6167 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6168 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6172 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6174 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6175 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6176 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6177 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6181 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6187 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6189 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6190 into the source package by accident.
6192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6194 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6196 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6197 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6198 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6199 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6200 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6201 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6202 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6207 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6209 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6211 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6212 inspired to implement some of it.
6213 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6217 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6220 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6224 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6226 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6227 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6228 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6232 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6235 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6236 have done.) (#17598)
6238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6240 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6242 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6246 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6248 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6252 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6254 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6255 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6259 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6261 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6262 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6263 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6267 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6269 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6270 argument processor in perl.
6271 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6272 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6273 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6274 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6278 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6280 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6281 type directories. (#16933)
6282 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6283 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6284 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6285 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6286 are supported. (#16935)
6287 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6292 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6294 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6295 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6299 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6301 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6303 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6304 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6305 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6306 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6307 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6308 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6312 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6314 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6315 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6316 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6318 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6319 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6320 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6321 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6322 a given package, or -i or -a.
6323 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6324 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6325 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6326 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6327 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6328 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6329 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6330 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6331 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6333 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6334 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6335 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6339 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6341 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6342 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6343 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6348 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6351 does not have a section.
6353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6355 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6357 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6358 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6359 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6360 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6364 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6366 * Fixed typo #16215.
6368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6370 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6372 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6373 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6374 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6375 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6376 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6377 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6382 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6384 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6385 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6386 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6387 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6392 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6394 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6398 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6400 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6404 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6406 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6407 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6408 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6409 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6410 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6411 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6412 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6416 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6418 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6422 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6424 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6425 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6429 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6431 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6432 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6433 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6434 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6438 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6440 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6441 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6445 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6447 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6451 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6453 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6454 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6458 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6460 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6461 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6465 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6467 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6471 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6473 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6474 postinst, postrm, etc.
6476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6478 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6480 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6484 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6486 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6487 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6488 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6489 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6490 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6491 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6495 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6497 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6498 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6499 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6503 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6505 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6506 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6510 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6512 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6513 installing package files into.
6514 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6519 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6521 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6523 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6527 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6529 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6533 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6535 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6536 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6540 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6542 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6543 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6544 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6545 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6546 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6550 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6552 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6553 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6554 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6555 multiple binary packages.
6556 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6557 should rebuild them with this version.
6558 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6562 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6564 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6565 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6569 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6571 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6572 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6576 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6578 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6579 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6580 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6581 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6582 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6583 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6584 debian/README.debian.
6585 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6586 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6587 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6588 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6589 in a few situations.)
6591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6593 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6595 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6599 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6601 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6605 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6607 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6608 * Fixed several man pages.
6610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6612 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6614 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6615 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6616 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6620 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6622 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6623 is ready for general use.
6624 * Added man pages for all commands.
6625 * Multiple binary package support.
6626 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6627 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6628 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6630 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6631 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6632 auto-installed as parameters.
6633 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6635 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6638 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6639 the package build directory it is to act on.
6640 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6641 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6642 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6646 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6648 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6649 ready to replace debstd.
6651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400