1 debhelper (7.4.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
5 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
8 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
10 -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:01:43 -0700
12 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
14 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
15 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
16 flag with arch all/any packages.
17 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
18 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
19 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
20 situation. Closes: #540794
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
24 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
26 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
28 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
29 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
30 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
31 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
32 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
35 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
36 the default. Closes: #538201
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
41 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
45 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
46 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
47 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
48 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
49 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
51 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
52 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
53 * Above Closes: #491117
54 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
59 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
65 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
66 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
67 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
71 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
74 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
75 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
76 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
77 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
78 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
83 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
86 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
87 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
91 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
93 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
97 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
99 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
100 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
102 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
103 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
104 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
108 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
110 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
111 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
115 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
121 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
123 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
124 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
125 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
130 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
132 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
136 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
139 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
140 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
141 created by using `python' first during build and install.
143 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
148 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
150 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
154 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
156 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
157 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
161 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
163 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
167 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
169 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
173 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
175 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
176 contributed by Modestas Vainius
177 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
178 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
179 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
180 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
181 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
182 that support it. Closes: #480577
183 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
184 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
185 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
187 - Adds support for cmake.
188 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
189 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
191 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
193 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
194 that use them. The options are:
195 --sourcedir, --destdir
196 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
197 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
198 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
199 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
200 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
204 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
206 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
210 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
213 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
214 default. Closes: #537140
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
218 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
221 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
222 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
226 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
229 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
233 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
235 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
236 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
240 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
243 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
245 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
246 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
247 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
251 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
254 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
255 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
256 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
260 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
263 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
264 warning or deprecation message.
265 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
266 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
267 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
268 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
269 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
270 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
271 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
272 Closes: #534639, #357434
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
276 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
282 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
285 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
286 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
287 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
288 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
290 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
291 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
292 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
296 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
302 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
309 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
312 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
316 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
320 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
321 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
323 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
324 file support. Closes: #494914
325 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
329 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
332 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
333 parameters. Closes: #527256
334 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
335 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
336 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
340 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
344 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
345 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
346 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
350 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
353 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
354 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
355 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
359 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
362 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
363 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
365 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
366 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
367 by triggers). Closes: #521181
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
371 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
373 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
375 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
379 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
382 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
383 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
384 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
385 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
390 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
396 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
399 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
400 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
401 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
402 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
403 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
405 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
406 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
407 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
408 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
409 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
410 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
414 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
417 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
418 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
419 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
420 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
421 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
423 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
427 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
429 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
433 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
435 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
436 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
437 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
438 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
439 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
440 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
441 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
442 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
443 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
444 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
445 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
449 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
451 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
452 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
454 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
455 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
456 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
457 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
459 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
460 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
464 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
466 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
467 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
468 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
469 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
470 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
471 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
472 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
474 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
475 that uses them. Affected options are:
476 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
477 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
478 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
479 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
480 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
481 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
482 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
483 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
484 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
485 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
486 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
487 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
491 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
498 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
500 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
504 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
506 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
507 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
509 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
510 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
511 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
512 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
513 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
515 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
517 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
518 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
519 rules (see bug #509756).
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
523 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
529 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
530 * Typo. Closes: #493062
531 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
532 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
536 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
539 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
540 empty files. Closes: #490937
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
544 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
550 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
557 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
560 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
561 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
562 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
563 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
568 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
570 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
571 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
572 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
573 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
577 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
580 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
581 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
582 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
583 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
584 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
588 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
595 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
597 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
598 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
599 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
600 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
601 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
602 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
603 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
604 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
605 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
606 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
610 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
613 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
614 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
615 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
616 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
618 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
619 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
620 breaking backwards compatability.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
624 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
627 message in perl 5.10.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
631 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
637 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Convert copyright file to new format.
640 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
644 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
647 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
651 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
654 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
655 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
656 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
657 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
658 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
659 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
660 logging by dh_listpackages.
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
664 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
667 run and there are no packages of that type.
668 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
669 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
670 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
671 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
673 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
674 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
678 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
680 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
681 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
682 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
686 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
689 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
690 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
692 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
693 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
694 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
695 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
696 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
697 planned but not yet implemented.)
698 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
699 if the Makefile has such a target.
700 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
701 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
702 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
703 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
704 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
705 but not yet implemented.)
706 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
707 recommended default, especially when using dh.
708 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
709 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
710 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
712 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
714 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
715 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
717 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
718 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
719 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
724 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
727 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
728 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
732 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
734 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
735 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
736 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
740 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
746 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
752 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
755 just those installed by the program.
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
759 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
762 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
763 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
767 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
769 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
770 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
771 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
772 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
773 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
777 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
780 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
781 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
785 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
787 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
788 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
789 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
793 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
796 with policy. Closes: #461392
797 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
798 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
799 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
800 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
801 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
805 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
807 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
808 Closes: #460340, #460351
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
812 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
815 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
816 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
817 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
818 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
822 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
825 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
826 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
827 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
828 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
829 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
830 package build directory won't work.
831 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
832 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
833 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
834 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
835 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
836 mode. Closes: #459426
837 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
842 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
845 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
849 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
851 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
853 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
854 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
855 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
856 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
857 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
858 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
862 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
865 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
866 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
867 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
868 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
872 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
875 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
876 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
877 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
878 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
879 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
883 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
886 debian/package.triggers files.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
890 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
893 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
897 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
900 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
901 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
902 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
903 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
908 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
911 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
915 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
918 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
919 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
921 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
926 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
930 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
931 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
932 * Typo. Closes: #441272
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
936 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
943 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
950 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
953 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
955 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
956 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
957 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
959 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
960 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
961 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
965 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
968 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
969 * Update urls to web page.
970 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
972 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
973 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
977 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
980 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
981 - typo in alternatives call
982 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
984 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
985 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
989 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
992 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
997 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1003 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1009 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1012 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1014 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1015 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1016 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1017 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1018 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1019 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1020 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1021 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1022 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1023 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1024 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1028 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1031 package install. Closes: #415717
1032 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1033 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1034 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1035 script and then remove the python files.
1036 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1037 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1038 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1039 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1040 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1041 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1042 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1043 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1044 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1045 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1046 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1047 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1048 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1052 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Correct typo in french translation
1058 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1059 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1061 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1063 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1064 Closes: #406921, #381940
1065 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1067 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1068 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1069 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1070 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1071 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1072 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1073 specified). Closes: #381851
1074 * Misc minor changes.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1078 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1085 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1086 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1090 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1096 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1097 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1100 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1101 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1103 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1104 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1105 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1106 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1110 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1113 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1116 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1120 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1126 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1132 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1133 a difficult situation.
1134 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1135 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1136 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1137 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1138 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1139 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1140 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1141 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1142 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1143 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1147 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Non-maintainer upload.
1150 * Update of dh_python
1151 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1152 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1154 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1155 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1156 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1157 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1158 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1160 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1162 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Non-maintainer upload.
1165 * Update of dh_python
1166 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1167 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1168 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1169 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1170 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1171 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1172 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1173 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1174 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1175 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1177 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1178 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1179 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1180 the not too-distant future).
1181 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1182 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1183 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1184 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1185 thus made the build fail.
1187 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1189 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Non-maintainer upload.
1192 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1194 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1196 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1199 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1200 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1201 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1202 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1203 package. Closes: #301424
1204 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1205 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1206 fonts). Closes: #372686
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1210 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1216 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1217 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1218 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1219 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1220 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1221 above, but already depends on that.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1225 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1228 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1229 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1230 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1231 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1232 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1236 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1242 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1248 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1249 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1253 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1256 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1260 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1264 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1265 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1266 new version (0.24.1).
1267 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1268 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1271 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1272 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1273 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1274 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1275 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1276 new directory on their own.
1277 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1278 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1282 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1285 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1286 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1287 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1288 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1292 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1295 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1296 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1297 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1298 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1299 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1303 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1309 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1313 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1314 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1318 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1319 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1323 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1325 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1326 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1328 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1329 ignored. Closes: #337664
1331 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1336 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1342 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1347 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1348 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1349 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1350 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1351 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1352 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1353 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1357 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1360 version. Closes: #350607
1361 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1362 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1363 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1364 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1368 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1371 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1372 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1373 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1377 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1384 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1390 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1393 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1397 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1400 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1401 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1402 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1403 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1404 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1405 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1409 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1412 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1413 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1418 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1421 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1425 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1428 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1432 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1435 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1436 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1437 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1438 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1439 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1440 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1444 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1448 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1449 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1450 link. Closes: #346405
1451 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1453 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1454 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1455 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1456 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1457 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1458 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1459 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1463 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1470 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1476 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1479 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1483 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1486 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1491 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1495 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1496 installed. Closes: #342033
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1500 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1503 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1504 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1505 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1510 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1516 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1522 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1526 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1527 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1528 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1532 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1535 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1540 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1547 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1553 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1556 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1557 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1558 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1559 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1560 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1561 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1562 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1564 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1568 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1571 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1572 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1576 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1579 in standard man dirs.
1580 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1584 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1590 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1593 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1598 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1605 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1612 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1615 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1616 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1620 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1623 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1624 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1625 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1627 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1629 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1635 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1641 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1644 mode. Closes: #324161
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1648 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1651 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1652 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1653 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1654 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1659 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1662 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1663 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1664 is necesary for sanity.
1665 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1666 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1671 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1673 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1674 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1678 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1681 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1685 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1691 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1694 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1695 released, so use at your own risk.
1696 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1697 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1699 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1700 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1701 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1702 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1703 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1704 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1705 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1706 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1707 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1708 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1709 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1710 including twice per config file line now..
1711 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1712 and simplfy the rules file.
1713 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1714 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1715 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1717 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1718 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1722 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1725 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1729 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1732 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1736 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1739 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1743 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1746 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1747 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1748 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1749 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1750 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1751 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1755 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1758 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1759 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1760 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1765 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1768 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1769 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1774 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1777 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1778 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1779 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1784 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1787 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1788 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1789 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1793 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1799 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1806 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1809 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1810 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1811 unknown. Closes: #282924
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1815 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1822 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Spanish man page updates.
1825 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1830 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1836 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1839 * dh_desktop: reindent
1840 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1841 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1845 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1851 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1853 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1857 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1859 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1863 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1866 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1867 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1871 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1877 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1883 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1890 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1893 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1897 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1900 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1901 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1902 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1903 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1904 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1905 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1907 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1908 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1909 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1910 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1911 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1912 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1913 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1914 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1915 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1916 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1917 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1918 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1919 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1920 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1921 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1922 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1926 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1933 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1936 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1940 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1943 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1950 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1954 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1957 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1961 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1967 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1973 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1979 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1982 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1983 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1984 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1988 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1991 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1995 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1998 but occasionally right and necessary.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2002 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2005 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2006 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2007 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2008 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2009 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2013 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2016 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2018 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2019 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2020 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2021 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2022 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2023 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2024 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2025 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2026 postinst scripts for udebs.
2027 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2031 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2034 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2036 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2037 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2041 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2047 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2054 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2061 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2064 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2068 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2071 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2075 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2078 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2081 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2082 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2086 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2092 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2095 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2099 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2102 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2103 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2104 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2106 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2108 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2109 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2110 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2114 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2117 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2122 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2125 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2126 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2127 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2132 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2138 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2144 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2147 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2148 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2149 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2150 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2151 associated -dbg packages.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2155 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2158 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2162 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2165 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2169 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2172 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2176 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2179 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2184 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2187 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2191 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2194 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2199 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2202 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2206 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2210 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2211 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2212 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2213 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2214 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2215 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2216 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2217 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2218 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2219 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2223 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2226 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2231 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2234 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2235 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2239 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2242 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2243 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2248 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2251 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2255 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2258 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2262 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2265 out section number. Closes: #204731
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2269 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2276 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2282 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2288 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2291 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2292 removal. Closes: #204286
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2296 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2299 renaming. Closes: #203548
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2303 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2306 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2307 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2311 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2317 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2323 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2329 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2332 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2333 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2334 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2338 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2341 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2342 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2346 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2352 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2359 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2362 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2367 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2370 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2374 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2377 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2379 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2380 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2384 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2387 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2392 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2395 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2399 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2405 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2407 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2411 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2414 it break hard links (see #188663).
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2418 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2421 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2425 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2431 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2435 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2436 debconf-mergetemplates
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2440 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2443 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2447 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2450 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2454 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2457 * Update debhelper(1).
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2461 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2464 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2465 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2466 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2467 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2468 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2472 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2475 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2476 the shell. Closes: #178524
2477 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2481 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2484 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2488 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2491 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2495 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2498 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2499 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2500 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2501 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2506 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2509 files from installation.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2513 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2516 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2517 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2521 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2524 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2528 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2531 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2535 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2541 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2547 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2551 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2552 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2554 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2558 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2561 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2562 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2563 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2564 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2568 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2571 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2575 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2578 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2579 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2583 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2587 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2592 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2598 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2602 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2603 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2604 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2609 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2612 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2613 practice. Closes: #163303
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2617 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2623 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2630 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2633 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2635 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2636 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2637 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2638 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2639 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2643 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2646 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2651 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2657 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2664 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2667 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2672 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2678 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2684 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2690 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2697 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2700 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2701 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2702 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2703 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2708 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2714 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2721 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2724 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2725 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2729 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2732 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2733 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2734 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2735 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2736 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2740 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2743 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2745 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2750 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2753 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2757 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2760 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2761 right thing. Closes: #150644
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2765 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * Stupid, evil typo.
2768 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2772 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2779 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2782 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2783 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2788 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2794 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2797 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2801 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2804 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2805 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2810 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2813 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2817 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2823 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2826 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2827 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2831 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2837 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Removing perl warning message.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2843 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2846 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2847 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2848 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2849 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2850 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2851 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2852 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2853 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2857 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2863 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2870 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2873 debconf-mergetemplate.
2874 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2875 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2879 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2882 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2883 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2884 dh_install, which ...
2885 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2886 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2887 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2888 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2889 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2890 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2891 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2892 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2893 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2894 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2895 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2896 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2897 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2898 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2899 other minor changes.
2900 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2901 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2902 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2903 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2904 course there's -X ..)
2905 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2906 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2907 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2909 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2910 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2911 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2912 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2913 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2918 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2924 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2927 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2931 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2937 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2943 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2949 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2955 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2958 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2959 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2960 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2961 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2963 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2964 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2968 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2974 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2977 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2981 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2984 upset. Closes: #131322
2986 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2988 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2991 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2992 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2993 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2994 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2995 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2996 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2997 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2998 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2999 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3000 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3001 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3002 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3003 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3004 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3005 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3007 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3011 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3014 - Better indenting of generated code.
3015 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3019 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3023 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3024 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3025 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3026 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3027 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3028 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3029 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3033 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3036 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3040 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3043 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3044 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3045 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3046 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3047 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3048 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3049 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3050 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3051 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3052 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3053 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3054 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3055 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3056 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3057 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3062 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3068 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3071 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3072 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3076 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3079 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3080 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3084 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3090 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3093 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3094 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3095 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3096 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3097 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3102 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3108 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3111 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3115 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3118 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3123 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3129 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3132 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3136 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3142 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3146 Also some indentation fixes.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3150 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3153 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3154 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3155 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3156 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3157 Closes: #106514, #85520
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3161 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3167 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3173 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3179 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3185 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3191 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3194 change it in debhelper v4..
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3198 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3204 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3207 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3211 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3214 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3218 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3224 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3227 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3228 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3229 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3230 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3231 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3232 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3233 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3234 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3235 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3236 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3237 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3238 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3242 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3245 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3249 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3256 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3259 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3260 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3261 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3262 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3263 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3264 program those options go to. So, for example,
3265 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3266 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3267 something complex. Closes: #89311
3268 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3272 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3275 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3276 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3277 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3281 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3284 through loop. Closes: #98598
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3288 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Missing semi-colon.
3291 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3292 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3296 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3299 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3300 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3301 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3305 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3308 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3309 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3313 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3316 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3320 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3323 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3324 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3328 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3331 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3332 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3333 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3337 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3340 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3341 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3342 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3346 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3349 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3353 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3359 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3365 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3371 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3377 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3380 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3384 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3387 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3388 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3389 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3390 followed. Closes: #85483
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3394 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3396 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3397 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3398 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3402 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3405 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3406 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3407 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3408 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3409 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3410 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3411 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3412 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3413 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3414 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3415 Closes: #88464, #77743
3416 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3417 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3418 us to deal with that gracefully.
3419 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3421 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3422 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3423 a while, Closes: #51225
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3427 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3433 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3436 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3440 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3444 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3449 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3452 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3453 don't make packlist files.
3454 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3455 debhelper coding standards.
3456 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3457 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3461 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3464 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3468 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3471 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3472 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3473 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3474 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3475 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3476 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3477 but is mildly deprecated.
3478 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3479 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3480 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3481 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3482 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3483 switching to statoverrides..
3484 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3485 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3486 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3487 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3488 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3489 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3491 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3492 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3493 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3494 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3495 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3496 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3497 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3498 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3499 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3501 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3502 variable names, pod man pages).
3503 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3504 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3505 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3506 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3507 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3508 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3509 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3513 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3519 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3526 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3529 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3533 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3535 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3536 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3537 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3541 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3543 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3544 they were previously ignored.
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3548 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3550 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3551 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3555 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3557 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3558 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3559 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3563 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3565 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3569 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3571 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3572 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3576 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3578 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3579 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3580 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3581 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3582 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3583 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3584 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3585 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3586 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3587 it is an obsolete program.
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3591 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3593 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3597 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3601 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3603 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3607 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3609 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3611 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3613 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3617 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3623 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * typo: Closes, #78567
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3629 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3635 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3641 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3644 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3645 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3646 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3647 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3648 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3652 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3655 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3660 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3663 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3664 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3665 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3666 backwards-compatability.
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3670 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3673 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3674 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3675 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3676 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3677 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3678 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3680 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3681 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3682 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3684 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3686 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3687 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3688 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3689 should now be raised to severity important..
3690 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3691 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3695 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3698 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3703 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3709 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3715 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3721 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3728 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3731 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3732 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3733 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3734 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3738 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3744 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3747 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3748 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3749 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3750 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3751 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3752 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3757 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3760 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3764 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3773 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3778 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3781 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3782 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3783 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3784 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3788 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3792 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3795 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3798 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3799 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3802 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3804 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3805 the TODO entry about it.
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3809 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3816 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3819 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3820 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3824 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3827 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3828 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3829 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3830 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3834 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3840 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3847 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3850 (this appears to be logal).
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3854 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3857 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3858 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3859 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3860 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3864 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3870 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3873 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3874 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3875 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3876 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3880 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3886 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3889 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3893 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3900 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3903 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3904 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3905 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3910 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3917 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3923 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3926 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3927 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3928 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3929 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3930 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3931 notice until v2 is complete.
3932 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3933 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3934 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3935 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3936 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3937 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3939 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3940 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3941 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3942 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3946 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3952 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3959 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3962 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3966 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3973 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3976 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3977 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3978 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3979 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3984 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3987 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3988 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3989 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3994 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3997 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3998 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4002 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4005 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4009 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4012 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4016 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4023 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4026 depend on the build and install targets.
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4030 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4033 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4037 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4044 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4050 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4056 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4059 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4060 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4061 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4062 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4063 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4064 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4066 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4067 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4068 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4069 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4070 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4071 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4072 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4076 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4082 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4088 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4091 right place. Closes: #55065
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4095 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4102 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4105 * Copyright date updates.
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4109 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4112 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4117 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4123 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4130 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4136 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4142 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4148 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4151 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4152 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4153 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4154 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4155 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4156 bits until all files have been registered.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4160 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_installmanpages:
4163 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4164 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4165 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4166 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4167 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4168 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4169 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4170 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4171 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4172 otherwise change the result at all.
4174 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4175 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4176 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4177 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4178 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4183 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4189 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4192 act on files that don't exist.
4193 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4194 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4195 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4197 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4198 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4199 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4200 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4204 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4210 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4216 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4219 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4223 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4226 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4228 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4229 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4230 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4234 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4237 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4238 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4239 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4240 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4241 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4242 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4243 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4245 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4247 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4251 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4258 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4264 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4270 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4273 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4283 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4289 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4292 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4293 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4294 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4295 I made some changes, though:
4296 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4297 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4298 that is a clear violation of policy.
4299 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4300 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4301 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4302 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4303 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4304 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4305 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4306 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4307 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4309 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4313 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4319 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4322 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4326 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4329 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4330 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4335 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4341 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4348 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4351 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4352 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4353 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4354 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4355 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4356 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4357 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4361 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4367 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4371 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4372 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4376 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4382 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4385 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4389 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4392 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4393 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4397 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4399 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4404 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4408 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4412 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4415 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4416 for the dependancies to be generated.
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4420 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4423 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4427 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4430 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4431 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4432 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4437 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4440 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4441 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4445 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4451 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4457 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4460 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4464 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4470 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4473 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4474 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4475 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4476 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4477 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4478 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4479 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4480 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4481 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4482 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4483 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4484 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4488 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4491 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4492 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4494 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4495 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4496 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4497 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4498 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4499 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4501 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4502 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4506 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4509 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4513 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4520 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4523 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4528 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4531 for building debhelper.
4532 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4536 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4543 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4546 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4550 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4553 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4554 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4555 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4556 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4557 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4558 it's always available.
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4562 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4565 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4566 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4567 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4571 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4573 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4574 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4575 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4579 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4585 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4588 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4592 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4598 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4601 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4602 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4603 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4607 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4610 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4615 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4618 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4619 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4621 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4622 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4626 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4632 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4638 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4641 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4645 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4648 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4649 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4651 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4655 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4658 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4659 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4660 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4664 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4667 things if CDPATH is set.
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4671 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4673 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4677 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4680 seems to make sense for the transition.
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4684 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4687 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4692 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4695 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4696 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4700 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4703 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4707 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4710 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4711 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4712 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4713 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4717 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4723 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4726 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4727 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4728 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4729 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4730 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4731 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4732 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4733 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4734 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4735 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4740 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4743 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4744 * README: mention doc/v2
4745 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4746 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4750 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4752 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4753 be using this script RSN.
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4757 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4760 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4761 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4762 more than 1 init script.
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4766 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4769 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4773 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * Changed perl version detection.
4776 * Changed call to find.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4780 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4783 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4785 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4790 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * Really include dh_installpam.
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4796 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4799 * Wrote man page for same.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4803 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4806 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4807 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4812 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4814 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4819 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4822 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4823 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4824 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4825 x bit was being set!
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4829 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4832 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4833 well. (Closes: 38900)
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4837 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4840 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4841 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4845 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4851 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4858 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4864 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4867 help from Julian Gilbey.
4868 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4869 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4870 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4871 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4872 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4873 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4874 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4879 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4885 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4892 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4898 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4904 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4907 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4911 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4913 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4914 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4918 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4921 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4925 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4931 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4933 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4934 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4938 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4944 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4950 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4953 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4954 may be deleted. (#35845)
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4958 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * Various man page enhancements.
4961 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4966 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4968 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4969 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4970 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4974 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4977 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4978 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4979 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4981 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4982 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4987 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4993 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * Another very minor typo fix.
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4999 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5001 * Very minor typo fix.
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5005 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5008 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5009 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5013 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5019 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5022 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5023 variables properly (#34850).
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5027 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5033 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5036 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5037 (automatically generated by build process).
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5041 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5043 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5047 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5050 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5051 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5053 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5057 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5060 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5064 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * README: minor typo fix.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5070 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5073 leave it at that. :-)
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5077 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5083 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5089 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5092 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5093 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5094 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5098 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5101 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5105 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5108 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5112 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5115 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5116 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5117 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5118 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5122 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5125 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5126 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5127 Craig Small for spotting this.
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5131 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5134 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5135 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5139 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5145 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5148 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5152 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5154 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5155 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5156 working on the last version of debhelper.
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5160 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5163 being made. (#23255)
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5167 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5173 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5176 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5180 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5183 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5184 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5185 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5186 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5190 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5193 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5194 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5195 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5196 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5198 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5199 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5201 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5206 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5212 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5218 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5221 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5222 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5223 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5224 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5225 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5226 suidregister actually supports it.
5227 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5228 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5232 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5234 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5239 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5242 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5243 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5244 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5245 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5246 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5247 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5248 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5252 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5254 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5255 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5259 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5262 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5263 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5264 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5265 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5269 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5272 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5274 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5275 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5276 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5277 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5278 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5279 effect, either. (#30118)
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5283 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5289 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5292 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5293 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5297 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5303 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5306 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5307 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5308 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5309 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5313 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5316 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5317 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5321 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5327 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5330 packages, painlessly.
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5334 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5340 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5346 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5352 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * The perl conversion is complete.
5356 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5358 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5359 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5360 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5365 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5368 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5369 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5370 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5374 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5377 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5379 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5381 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5382 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5386 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5389 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5390 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5394 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5400 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5403 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5404 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5405 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5406 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5407 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5411 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5414 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5415 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5416 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5417 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5421 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5424 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5428 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5431 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5432 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5433 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5434 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5435 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5436 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5437 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5438 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5442 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5448 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5451 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5452 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5453 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5458 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5461 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5465 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5468 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5472 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5475 sections of shared libraries.
5476 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5477 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5478 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5479 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5480 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5481 things you don't want them to.
5482 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5483 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5487 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5490 shared libraries. (#26414)
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5494 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5496 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5497 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5498 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5499 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5503 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5507 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5509 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5510 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5511 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5512 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5513 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5517 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5520 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5524 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5527 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5528 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5533 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5536 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5540 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5543 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5544 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5545 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5546 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5547 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5549 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5550 remove debian/files properly.
5551 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5552 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5553 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5554 * Removed bogus menu file.
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5558 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5561 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5565 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5568 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5569 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5570 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5571 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5572 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5573 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5577 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5580 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5581 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5582 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5583 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5587 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5594 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5597 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5598 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5600 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5601 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5602 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5603 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5604 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5605 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5609 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5612 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5613 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5614 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5615 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5616 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5617 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5618 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5619 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5620 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5621 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5622 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5623 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5624 passed any switches.
5625 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5629 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5632 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5633 at all for a long while.
5634 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5635 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5636 large chunks in the process.
5637 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5638 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5639 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5644 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5646 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5647 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5649 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5654 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5657 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5658 that don't always have the same files in them.
5659 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5660 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5661 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5665 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5669 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5670 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5671 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5672 updating 27 man pages.
5673 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5674 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5675 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5676 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5677 programs act on. (#25247)
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5681 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5685 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5686 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5687 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5688 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5689 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5690 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5695 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5702 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5704 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5709 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5712 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5716 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5722 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5725 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5726 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5727 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5728 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5729 package by accident.
5730 * Is version 1.0 next?
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5734 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5737 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5738 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5742 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5745 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5746 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5747 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5748 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5749 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5751 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5756 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5758 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5759 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5760 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5764 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5767 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5771 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5774 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5775 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5780 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5786 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5789 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5790 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5795 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5797 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5801 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5803 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5804 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5805 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5806 past week. Thanks, guys!
5808 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5809 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5810 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5811 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5812 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5813 would do in the same situation.
5814 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5815 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5817 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5819 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5820 permissions changed.
5821 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5822 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5823 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5824 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5825 files are treated identically.
5826 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5827 * Minor man page fixes.
5828 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5829 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5830 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5834 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5837 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5838 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5839 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5840 use -X multiple times, too.
5841 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5842 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5846 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5848 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5849 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5850 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5854 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5857 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5861 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5864 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5865 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5866 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5867 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5868 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5869 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5870 shape if you're starting a new package.
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5874 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5877 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5881 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5884 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5885 because of missing symlinks.
5887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5889 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5891 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5895 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5897 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5898 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5899 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5900 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5901 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5902 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5904 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5905 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5909 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5911 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5912 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5913 to be changed after the fact :-)
5914 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5918 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5920 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5921 no version string after the -V.
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5925 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5927 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5928 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5933 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5936 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5940 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5943 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5944 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5945 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5946 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5947 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5948 I always welcome corrections!
5950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5952 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5954 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5958 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5960 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5961 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5962 * Documented this new switch.
5964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5966 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5968 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5969 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5970 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5971 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5972 no packages use the old behavior.
5974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5976 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5978 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5979 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5980 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5984 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5987 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5991 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5993 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5997 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5999 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6000 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6004 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6007 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6008 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6009 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6013 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6015 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6019 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6021 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6022 into the source package by accident.
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6026 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6029 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6030 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6031 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6032 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6033 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6034 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6039 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6043 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6044 inspired to implement some of it.
6045 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6049 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6052 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6056 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6058 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6059 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6060 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6064 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6066 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6067 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6068 have done.) (#17598)
6070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6072 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6074 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6078 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6080 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6084 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6086 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6087 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6091 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6094 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6095 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6099 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6102 argument processor in perl.
6103 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6104 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6105 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6106 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6110 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6113 type directories. (#16933)
6114 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6115 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6116 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6117 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6118 are supported. (#16935)
6119 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6124 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6127 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6131 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6133 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6135 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6136 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6137 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6138 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6139 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6140 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6144 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6146 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6147 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6148 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6150 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6151 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6152 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6153 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6154 a given package, or -i or -a.
6155 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6156 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6157 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6158 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6159 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6160 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6161 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6162 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6163 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6165 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6166 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6167 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6171 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6173 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6174 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6175 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6180 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6182 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6183 does not have a section.
6185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6187 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6189 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6190 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6191 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6192 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6196 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6198 * Fixed typo #16215.
6200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6202 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6204 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6205 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6206 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6207 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6208 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6209 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6214 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6216 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6217 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6218 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6219 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6224 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6226 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6230 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6232 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6236 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6238 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6239 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6240 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6241 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6242 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6243 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6244 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6248 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6250 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6254 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6256 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6257 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6261 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6263 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6264 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6265 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6266 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6270 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6272 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6273 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6277 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6279 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6283 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6285 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6286 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6290 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6293 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6297 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6299 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6303 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6305 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6306 postinst, postrm, etc.
6308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6310 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6312 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6316 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6318 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6319 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6320 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6321 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6322 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6323 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6327 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6329 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6330 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6331 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6335 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6337 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6338 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6342 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6344 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6345 installing package files into.
6346 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6351 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6353 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6355 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6359 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6361 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6365 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6367 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6368 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6372 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6374 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6375 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6376 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6377 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6378 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6382 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6384 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6385 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6386 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6387 multiple binary packages.
6388 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6389 should rebuild them with this version.
6390 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6394 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6396 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6397 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6401 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6403 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6404 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6408 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6410 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6411 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6412 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6413 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6414 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6415 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6416 debian/README.debian.
6417 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6418 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6419 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6420 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6421 in a few situations.)
6423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6425 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6427 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6431 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6433 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6437 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6440 * Fixed several man pages.
6442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6444 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6446 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6447 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6448 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6452 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6454 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6455 is ready for general use.
6456 * Added man pages for all commands.
6457 * Multiple binary package support.
6458 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6459 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6460 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6462 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6463 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6464 auto-installed as parameters.
6465 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6467 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6470 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6471 the package build directory it is to act on.
6472 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6473 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6474 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6478 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6480 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6481 ready to replace debstd.
6483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400