1 debhelper (7.4.20) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
5 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
6 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
7 in control file or debhelper config files.
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 09 May 2010 11:44:58 -0400
11 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
13 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
14 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
15 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
19 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
22 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
26 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
29 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
30 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
34 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Updated French translation.
37 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
38 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
39 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
40 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
42 * Typo. Closes: #571968
43 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
44 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
45 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
46 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
47 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
48 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
49 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
50 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
51 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
53 * dh: Improve documentation.
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
57 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
59 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
60 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
61 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
65 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
68 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
72 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
75 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
79 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
81 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
82 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
83 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
84 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
85 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
86 options that they do not support.
87 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
88 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
89 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
90 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
91 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
92 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
97 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
101 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
102 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
103 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
104 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
105 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
106 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
107 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
108 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
109 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
113 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
116 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
117 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
118 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
119 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
123 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Typo. Closes: #558654
126 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
127 installed. Closes: #558782
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
131 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
134 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
135 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
136 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
137 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
138 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
142 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
144 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
145 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
146 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
147 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
151 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
154 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
155 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
159 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
161 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
165 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
167 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
168 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
169 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
170 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
171 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
172 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
173 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
174 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
175 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
176 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
177 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
178 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
179 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
180 time soon.) Closes: #554509
181 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
183 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
184 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
185 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
186 document id. Closes: #555677
187 * Typo. Closes: #555659
188 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
189 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
190 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
191 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
193 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
194 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
195 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
200 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
203 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
204 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
205 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
206 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
207 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
208 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
209 translation (#494300 part 2)
212 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
214 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
215 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
216 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
217 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
218 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
222 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
225 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
226 (It was only run once due to logging.)
227 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
228 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
229 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
230 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
231 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
232 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
233 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
234 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
235 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
236 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
240 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
244 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
247 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
248 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
252 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
255 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
256 flag with arch all/any packages.
257 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
258 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
259 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
260 situation. Closes: #540794
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
264 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
268 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
269 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
270 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
271 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
272 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
275 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
276 the default. Closes: #538201
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
281 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
285 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
286 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
287 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
288 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
289 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
291 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
292 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
293 * Above Closes: #491117
294 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
299 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
305 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
306 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
307 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
311 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
314 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
315 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
316 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
317 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
318 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
323 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
326 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
327 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
331 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
333 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
337 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
339 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
340 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
342 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
343 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
344 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
348 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
350 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
351 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
355 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
361 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
363 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
364 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
365 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
370 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
372 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
376 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
379 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
380 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
381 created by using `python' first during build and install.
383 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
388 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
390 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
394 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
396 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
397 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
401 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
403 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
407 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
409 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
413 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
415 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
416 contributed by Modestas Vainius
417 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
418 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
419 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
420 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
421 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
422 that support it. Closes: #480577
423 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
424 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
425 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
427 - Adds support for cmake.
428 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
429 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
431 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
433 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
434 that use them. The options are:
435 --sourcedir, --destdir
436 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
437 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
438 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
439 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
440 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
444 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
450 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
453 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
454 default. Closes: #537140
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
458 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
460 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
461 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
462 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
466 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
469 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
473 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
475 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
476 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
480 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
483 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
485 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
486 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
487 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
491 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
494 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
495 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
496 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
500 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
503 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
504 warning or deprecation message.
505 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
506 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
507 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
508 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
509 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
510 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
511 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
512 Closes: #534639, #357434
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
516 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
522 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
525 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
526 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
527 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
528 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
530 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
531 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
532 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
536 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
542 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
549 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
552 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
556 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
560 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
561 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
563 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
564 file support. Closes: #494914
565 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
569 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
572 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
573 parameters. Closes: #527256
574 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
575 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
576 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
580 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
582 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
584 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
585 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
586 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
590 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
593 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
594 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
595 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
599 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
602 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
603 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
605 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
606 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
607 by triggers). Closes: #521181
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
611 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
615 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
619 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
621 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
622 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
623 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
624 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
625 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
630 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
636 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
638 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
639 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
640 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
641 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
642 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
643 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
645 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
646 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
647 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
648 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
649 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
650 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
654 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
657 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
658 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
659 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
660 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
661 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
663 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
667 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
669 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
673 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
675 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
676 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
677 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
678 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
679 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
680 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
681 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
682 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
683 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
684 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
685 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
689 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
691 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
692 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
694 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
695 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
696 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
697 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
699 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
700 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
704 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
706 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
707 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
708 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
709 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
710 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
711 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
712 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
714 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
715 that uses them. Affected options are:
716 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
717 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
718 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
719 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
720 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
721 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
722 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
723 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
724 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
725 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
726 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
727 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
731 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
738 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
744 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
746 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
747 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
749 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
750 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
751 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
752 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
753 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
755 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
757 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
758 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
759 rules (see bug #509756).
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
763 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
769 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
770 * Typo. Closes: #493062
771 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
772 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
776 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
779 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
780 empty files. Closes: #490937
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
784 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
790 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
797 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
800 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
801 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
802 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
803 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
808 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
810 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
811 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
812 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
813 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
817 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
820 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
821 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
822 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
823 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
824 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
828 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
835 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
837 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
838 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
839 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
840 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
841 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
842 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
843 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
844 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
845 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
846 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
850 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
853 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
854 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
855 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
856 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
858 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
859 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
860 breaking backwards compatibility.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
864 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
867 message in perl 5.10.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
871 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
873 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
877 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Convert copyright file to new format.
880 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
884 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
887 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
891 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
894 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
895 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
896 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
897 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
898 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
899 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
900 logging by dh_listpackages.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
904 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
907 run and there are no packages of that type.
908 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
909 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
910 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
911 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
913 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
914 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
918 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
920 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
921 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
922 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
926 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
929 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
930 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
932 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
933 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
934 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
935 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
936 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
937 planned but not yet implemented.)
938 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
939 if the Makefile has such a target.
940 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
941 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
942 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
943 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
944 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
945 but not yet implemented.)
946 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
947 recommended default, especially when using dh.
948 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
949 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
950 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
952 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
954 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
955 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
957 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
958 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
959 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
964 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
967 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
968 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
972 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
974 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
975 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
976 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
980 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
986 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
992 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
995 just those installed by the program.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
999 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1002 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1003 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1007 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1010 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1011 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1012 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1013 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1017 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1020 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1021 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1025 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1028 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1029 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1033 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1036 with policy. Closes: #461392
1037 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1038 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1039 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1040 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1041 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1045 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1048 Closes: #460340, #460351
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1052 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1055 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1056 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1057 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1058 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1062 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1065 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1066 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1067 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1068 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1069 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1070 package build directory won't work.
1071 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1072 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1073 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1074 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1075 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1076 mode. Closes: #459426
1077 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1082 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1085 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1089 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1093 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1094 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1095 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1096 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1097 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1098 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1102 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1105 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1106 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1107 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1108 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1112 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1115 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1116 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1117 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1118 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1119 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1123 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1126 debian/package.triggers files.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1130 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1133 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1137 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1140 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1141 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1142 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1143 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1148 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1151 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1155 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1158 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1159 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1161 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1166 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1170 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1171 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1172 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1176 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1183 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1190 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1193 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1195 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1196 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1197 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1199 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1200 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1201 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1205 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1208 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1209 * Update urls to web page.
1210 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1211 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1212 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1213 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1217 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1220 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1221 - typo in alternatives call
1222 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1224 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1225 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1229 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1232 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1237 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1243 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1249 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1252 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1254 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1255 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1256 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1257 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1258 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1259 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1260 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1261 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1262 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1263 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1264 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1268 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1271 package install. Closes: #415717
1272 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1273 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1274 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1275 script and then remove the python files.
1276 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1277 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1278 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1279 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1280 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1281 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1282 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1283 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1284 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1285 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1286 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1287 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1288 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1292 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Correct typo in french translation
1298 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1299 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1301 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1303 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1304 Closes: #406921, #381940
1305 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1307 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1308 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1309 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1310 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1311 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1312 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1313 specified). Closes: #381851
1314 * Misc minor changes.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1318 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1325 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1326 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1330 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1336 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1337 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1340 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1341 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1343 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1344 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1345 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1346 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1350 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1353 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1356 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1360 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1366 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1372 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1373 a difficult situation.
1374 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1375 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1376 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1377 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1378 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1379 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1380 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1381 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1382 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1383 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1387 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Non-maintainer upload.
1390 * Update of dh_python
1391 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1392 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1394 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1395 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1396 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1397 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1398 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1400 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1402 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Non-maintainer upload.
1405 * Update of dh_python
1406 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1407 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1408 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1409 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1410 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1411 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1412 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1413 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1414 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1415 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1417 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1418 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1419 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1420 the not too-distant future).
1421 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1422 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1423 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1424 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1425 thus made the build fail.
1427 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1429 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Non-maintainer upload.
1432 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1434 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1436 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1439 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1440 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1441 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1442 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1443 package. Closes: #301424
1444 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1445 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1446 fonts). Closes: #372686
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1450 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1456 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1457 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1458 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1459 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1460 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1461 above, but already depends on that.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1465 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1468 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1469 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1470 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1471 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1472 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1476 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1482 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1488 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1489 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1493 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1496 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1500 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1504 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1505 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1506 new version (0.24.1).
1507 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1508 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1511 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1512 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1513 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1514 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1515 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1516 new directory on their own.
1517 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1518 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1522 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1525 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1526 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1527 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1528 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1532 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1535 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1536 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1537 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1538 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1539 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1543 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1549 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1553 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1554 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1558 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1559 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1563 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1565 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1566 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1568 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1569 ignored. Closes: #337664
1571 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1576 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1582 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1587 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1588 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1589 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1590 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1591 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1592 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1593 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1597 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1600 version. Closes: #350607
1601 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1602 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1603 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1604 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1608 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1611 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1612 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1613 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1617 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1624 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1630 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1633 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1637 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1640 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1641 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1642 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1643 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1644 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1645 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1649 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1652 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1653 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1658 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1661 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1665 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1668 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1672 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1675 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1676 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1677 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1678 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1679 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1680 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1684 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1688 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1689 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1690 link. Closes: #346405
1691 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1693 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1694 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1695 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1696 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1697 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1698 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1699 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1703 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1710 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1716 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1719 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1723 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1726 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1731 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1735 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1736 installed. Closes: #342033
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1740 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1743 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1744 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1745 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1750 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1756 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1762 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1766 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1767 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1768 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1772 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1775 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1780 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1787 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1793 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1796 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1797 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1798 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1799 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1800 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1801 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1802 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1804 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1808 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1811 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1812 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1816 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1819 in standard man dirs.
1820 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1824 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1830 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1833 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1838 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1845 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1852 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1855 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1856 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1860 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1863 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1864 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1865 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1867 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1869 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1875 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1881 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1884 mode. Closes: #324161
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1888 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1891 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1892 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1893 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1894 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1899 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1902 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1903 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1904 is necesary for sanity.
1905 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1906 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1911 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1913 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1914 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1918 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1921 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1925 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1931 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1934 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1935 released, so use at your own risk.
1936 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1937 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1939 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1940 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1941 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1942 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1943 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1944 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1945 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1946 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1947 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1948 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1949 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1950 including twice per config file line now..
1951 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1952 and simplfy the rules file.
1953 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1954 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1955 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1957 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1958 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1962 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1965 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1969 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1972 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1976 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1979 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1983 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1986 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1987 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1988 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1989 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1990 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1991 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1995 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1998 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1999 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2000 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2005 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2008 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2009 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2014 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2017 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2018 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2019 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2024 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2027 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2028 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2029 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2033 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2039 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2046 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2049 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2050 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2051 unknown. Closes: #282924
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2055 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2062 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Spanish man page updates.
2065 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2070 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2076 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2079 * dh_desktop: reindent
2080 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2081 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2085 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2091 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2093 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2097 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2099 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2103 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2106 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2107 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2111 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2117 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2123 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2130 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2133 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2140 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2141 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2142 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2143 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2144 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2145 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2147 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2148 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2149 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2150 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2151 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2152 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2153 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2154 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2155 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2156 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2157 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2158 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2159 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2160 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2161 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2162 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2166 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2173 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2176 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2180 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2183 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2187 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2190 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2194 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2197 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2201 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2207 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2213 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2219 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2222 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2223 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2224 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2228 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2231 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2235 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2238 but occasionally right and necessary.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2242 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2245 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2246 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2247 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2248 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2249 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2253 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2256 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2258 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2259 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2260 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2261 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2262 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2263 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2264 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2265 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2266 postinst scripts for udebs.
2267 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2271 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2274 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2276 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2277 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2281 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2287 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2294 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2301 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2304 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2308 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2311 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2315 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2318 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2321 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2322 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2326 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2332 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2335 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2339 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2342 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2343 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2344 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2346 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2348 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2349 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2350 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2354 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2357 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2362 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2365 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2366 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2367 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2372 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2378 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2384 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2387 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2388 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2389 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2390 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2391 associated -dbg packages.
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2395 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2398 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2402 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2405 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2409 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2412 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2416 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2419 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2427 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2431 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2434 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2439 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2442 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2446 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2450 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2451 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2452 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2453 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2454 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2455 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2456 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2457 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2458 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2459 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2463 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2466 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2471 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2474 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2475 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2479 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2482 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2483 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2491 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2495 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2498 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2505 out section number. Closes: #204731
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2509 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2516 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2528 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2531 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2532 removal. Closes: #204286
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2536 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2539 renaming. Closes: #203548
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2543 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2546 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2547 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2551 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2557 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2563 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2569 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2572 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2573 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2574 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2578 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2581 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2582 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2586 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2592 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2599 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2602 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2607 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2610 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2614 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2617 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2619 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2620 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2624 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2627 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2632 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2635 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2639 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2645 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2647 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2651 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2654 it break hard links (see #188663).
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2658 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2661 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2665 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2671 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2675 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2676 debconf-mergetemplates
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2680 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2683 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2687 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2690 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2694 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2697 * Update debhelper(1).
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2701 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2704 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2705 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2706 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2707 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2708 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2712 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2715 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2716 the shell. Closes: #178524
2717 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2721 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2724 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2728 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2731 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2735 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2738 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2739 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2740 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2741 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2746 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2749 files from installation.
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2753 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2756 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2757 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2761 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2764 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2768 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2771 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2775 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2781 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2787 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2791 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2792 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2794 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2798 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2801 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2802 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2803 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2804 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2808 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2811 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2815 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2818 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2819 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2823 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2827 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2832 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2838 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2842 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2843 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2844 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2849 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2852 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2853 practice. Closes: #163303
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2857 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2863 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2870 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2873 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2875 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2876 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2877 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2878 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2879 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2883 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2886 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2891 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2897 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2904 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2907 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2912 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2918 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2924 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2930 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2937 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2940 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2941 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2942 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2943 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2948 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2954 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2961 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2964 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2965 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2972 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2973 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2974 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2975 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2976 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2980 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2983 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2985 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2990 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2993 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2997 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3000 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3001 right thing. Closes: #150644
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3005 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * Stupid, evil typo.
3008 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3012 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3019 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3022 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3023 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3028 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3034 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3037 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3041 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3044 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3045 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3050 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3053 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3057 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3063 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3066 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3067 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3071 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3077 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * Removing perl warning message.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3083 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3086 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3087 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3088 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3089 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3090 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3091 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3092 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3093 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3097 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3103 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3110 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3113 debconf-mergetemplate.
3114 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3115 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3119 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3122 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3123 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3124 dh_install, which ...
3125 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3126 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3127 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3128 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3129 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3130 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3131 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3132 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3133 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3134 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3135 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3136 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3137 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3138 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3139 other minor changes.
3140 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3141 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3142 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3143 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3144 course there's -X ..)
3145 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3146 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3147 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3149 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3150 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3151 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3152 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3153 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3158 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3164 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3167 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3171 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3177 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3183 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3189 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3195 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3198 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3199 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3200 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3201 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3203 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3204 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3208 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3214 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3217 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3221 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3224 upset. Closes: #131322
3226 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3228 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3231 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3232 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3233 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3234 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3235 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3236 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3237 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3238 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3239 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3240 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3241 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3242 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3243 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3244 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3245 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3247 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3251 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3254 - Better indenting of generated code.
3255 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3259 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3263 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3264 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3265 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3266 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3267 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3268 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3269 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3273 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3276 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3280 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3283 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3284 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3285 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3286 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3287 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3288 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3289 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3290 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3291 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3292 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3293 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3294 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3295 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3296 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3297 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3302 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3308 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3311 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3312 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3316 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3319 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3320 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3324 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3330 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3333 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3334 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3335 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3336 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3337 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3342 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3348 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3351 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3355 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3358 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3363 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3369 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3372 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3376 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3382 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3386 Also some indentation fixes.
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3390 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3393 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3394 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3395 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3396 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3397 Closes: #106514, #85520
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3401 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3407 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3413 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3419 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3425 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3431 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3434 change it in debhelper v4..
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3438 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3444 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3447 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3451 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3454 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3458 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3464 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3467 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3468 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3469 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3470 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3471 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3472 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3473 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3474 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3475 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3476 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3477 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3478 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3482 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3485 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3489 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3496 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3499 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3500 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3501 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3502 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3503 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3504 program those options go to. So, for example,
3505 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3506 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3507 something complex. Closes: #89311
3508 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3512 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3515 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3516 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3517 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3521 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3524 through loop. Closes: #98598
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3528 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * Missing semi-colon.
3531 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3532 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3536 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3539 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3540 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3541 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3545 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3548 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3549 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3553 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3556 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3560 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3563 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3564 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3568 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3571 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3572 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3573 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3577 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3580 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3581 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3582 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3586 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3589 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3593 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3599 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3605 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3611 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3617 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3620 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3624 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3627 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3628 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3629 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3630 followed. Closes: #85483
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3634 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3636 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3637 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3638 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3642 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3645 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3646 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3647 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3648 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3649 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3650 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3651 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3652 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3653 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3654 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3655 Closes: #88464, #77743
3656 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3657 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3658 us to deal with that gracefully.
3659 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3661 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3662 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3663 a while, Closes: #51225
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3667 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3673 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3676 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3680 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3684 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3689 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3692 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3693 don't make packlist files.
3694 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3695 debhelper coding standards.
3696 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3697 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3701 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3704 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3708 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3711 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3712 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3713 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3714 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3715 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3716 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3717 but is mildly deprecated.
3718 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3719 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3720 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3721 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3722 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3723 switching to statoverrides..
3724 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3725 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3726 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3727 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3728 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3729 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3731 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3732 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3733 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3734 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3735 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3736 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3737 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3738 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3739 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3741 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3742 variable names, pod man pages).
3743 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3744 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3745 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3746 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3747 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3748 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3749 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3753 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3759 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3766 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3769 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3773 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3775 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3776 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3777 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3781 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3783 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3784 they were previously ignored.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3788 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3790 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3791 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3795 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3797 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3798 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3799 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3803 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3805 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3809 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3811 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3812 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3816 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3818 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3819 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3820 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3821 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3822 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3823 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3824 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3825 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3826 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3827 it is an obsolete program.
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3831 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3833 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3837 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3841 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3843 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3847 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3849 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3851 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3853 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3857 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3863 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * typo: Closes, #78567
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3869 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3875 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3881 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3884 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3885 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3886 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3887 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3888 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3892 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3895 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3900 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3903 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3904 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3905 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3906 backwards-compatibility.
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3910 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3913 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3914 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3915 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3916 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3917 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3918 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3920 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3921 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3922 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3924 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3926 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3927 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3928 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3929 should now be raised to severity important..
3930 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3931 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3935 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3938 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3943 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3949 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3955 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3961 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3968 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3971 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3972 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3973 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3974 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3978 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3984 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3987 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3988 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3989 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3990 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3991 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3992 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3997 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4000 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4004 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4010 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4013 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4018 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4021 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4022 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4023 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4024 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4028 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4032 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4035 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4038 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4039 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4042 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4044 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4045 the TODO entry about it.
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4049 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4056 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4059 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4060 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4064 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4067 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4068 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4069 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4070 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4074 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4080 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4087 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4090 (this appears to be logal).
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4094 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4097 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4098 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4099 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4100 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4110 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4113 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4114 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4115 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4116 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4120 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4126 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4129 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4133 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4140 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4143 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4144 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4145 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4157 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4163 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4166 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4167 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4168 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4169 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4170 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4171 notice until v2 is complete.
4172 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4173 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4174 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4175 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4176 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4177 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4179 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4180 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4181 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4182 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4186 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4192 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4199 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4202 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4213 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4216 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4217 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4218 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4219 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4224 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4227 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4228 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4229 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4234 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4237 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4238 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4242 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4245 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4249 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4252 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4256 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4263 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4266 depend on the build and install targets.
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4270 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4273 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4284 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4290 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4296 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4299 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4300 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4301 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4302 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4303 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4304 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4306 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4307 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4308 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4309 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4310 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4311 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4312 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4316 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4322 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4328 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4331 right place. Closes: #55065
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4335 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4342 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4345 * Copyright date updates.
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4349 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4352 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4357 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4363 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4370 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4376 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4382 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4388 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4391 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4392 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4393 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4394 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4395 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4396 bits until all files have been registered.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4400 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * dh_installmanpages:
4403 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4404 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4405 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4406 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4407 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4408 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4409 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4410 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4411 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4412 otherwise change the result at all.
4414 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4415 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4416 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4417 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4418 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4423 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4429 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4432 act on files that don't exist.
4433 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4434 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4435 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4437 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4438 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4439 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4440 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4444 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4450 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4456 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4459 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4463 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4466 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4468 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4469 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4470 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4474 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4477 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4478 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4479 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4480 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4481 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4482 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4483 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4485 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4487 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4491 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4498 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4504 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4510 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4513 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4517 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4523 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4529 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4532 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4533 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4534 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4535 I made some changes, though:
4536 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4537 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4538 that is a clear violation of policy.
4539 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4540 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4541 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4542 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4543 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4544 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4545 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4546 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4547 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4549 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4553 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4559 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4562 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4566 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4569 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4570 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4575 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4581 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4588 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4591 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4592 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4593 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4594 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4595 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4596 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4597 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4601 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4607 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4611 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4612 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4616 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4622 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4625 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4629 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4632 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4633 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4637 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4639 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4644 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4648 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4652 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4655 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4656 for the dependancies to be generated.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4660 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4663 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4667 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4670 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4671 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4672 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4677 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4680 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4681 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4685 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4687 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4691 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4697 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4700 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4710 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4713 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4714 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4715 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4716 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4717 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4718 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4719 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4720 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4721 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4722 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4723 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4724 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4728 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4731 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4732 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4734 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4735 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4736 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4737 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4738 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4739 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4741 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4742 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4746 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4749 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4753 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4755 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4760 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4763 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4768 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4771 for building debhelper.
4772 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4776 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4783 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4786 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4790 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4793 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4794 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4795 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4796 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4797 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4798 it's always available.
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4802 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4805 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4806 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4807 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4811 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4814 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4815 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4819 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4825 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4828 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4832 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4838 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4841 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4842 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4843 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4847 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4850 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4855 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4858 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4859 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4861 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4862 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4866 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4872 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4874 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4878 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4881 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4885 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4888 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4889 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4891 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4895 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4898 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4899 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4900 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4904 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4907 things if CDPATH is set.
4909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4911 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4913 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4917 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4920 seems to make sense for the transition.
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4924 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4927 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4932 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4935 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4936 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4940 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4943 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4947 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4950 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4951 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4952 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4953 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4957 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4963 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4966 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4967 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4968 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4969 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4970 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4971 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4972 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4973 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4974 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4975 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4980 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4983 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4984 * README: mention doc/v2
4985 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4986 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4990 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4992 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4993 be using this script RSN.
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4997 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5000 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5001 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5002 more than 1 init script.
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5006 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5009 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5013 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * Changed perl version detection.
5016 * Changed call to find.
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5020 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5023 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5025 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5030 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * Really include dh_installpam.
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5036 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5039 * Wrote man page for same.
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5043 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5046 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5047 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5052 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5054 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5059 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5062 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5063 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5064 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5065 x bit was being set!
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5069 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5072 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5073 well. (Closes: 38900)
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5077 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5080 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5081 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5085 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5091 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5098 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5104 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5107 help from Julian Gilbey.
5108 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5109 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5110 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5111 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5112 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5113 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5114 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5119 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5125 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5127 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5132 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5138 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5144 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5147 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5151 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5154 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5158 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5161 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5165 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5171 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5174 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5178 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5184 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5190 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5193 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5194 may be deleted. (#35845)
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5198 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * Various man page enhancements.
5201 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5206 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5209 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5210 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5214 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5217 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5218 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5219 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5221 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5222 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5227 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5233 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * Another very minor typo fix.
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5239 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * Very minor typo fix.
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5245 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5248 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5249 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5253 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5259 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5262 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5263 variables properly (#34850).
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5267 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5273 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5276 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5277 (automatically generated by build process).
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5281 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5283 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5287 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5290 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5291 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5293 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5297 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5300 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5304 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5306 * README: minor typo fix.
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5310 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5313 leave it at that. :-)
5315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5317 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5319 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5323 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5329 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5332 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5333 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5334 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5338 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5341 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5345 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5348 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5352 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5355 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5356 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5357 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5358 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5362 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5365 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5366 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5367 Craig Small for spotting this.
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5371 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5374 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5375 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5379 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5385 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5388 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5392 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5394 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5395 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5396 working on the last version of debhelper.
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5400 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5403 being made. (#23255)
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5407 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5413 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5416 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5420 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5423 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5424 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5425 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5426 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5430 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5433 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5434 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5435 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5436 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5438 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5439 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5441 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5446 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5452 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5454 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5458 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5461 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5462 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5463 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5464 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5465 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5466 suidregister actually supports it.
5467 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5468 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5472 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5479 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5482 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5483 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5484 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5485 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5486 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5487 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5488 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5492 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5494 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5495 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5499 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5502 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5503 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5504 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5505 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5509 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5512 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5514 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5515 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5516 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5517 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5518 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5519 effect, either. (#30118)
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5523 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5529 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5532 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5533 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5537 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5543 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5545 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5546 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5547 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5548 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5549 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5553 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5556 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5557 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5561 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5567 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5569 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5570 packages, painlessly.
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5574 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5580 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5586 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5592 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * The perl conversion is complete.
5596 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5598 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5599 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5600 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5605 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5608 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5609 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5610 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5614 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5617 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5619 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5621 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5622 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5626 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5629 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5630 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5634 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5640 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5643 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5644 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5645 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5646 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5647 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5651 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5654 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5655 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5656 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5657 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5661 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5664 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5668 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5670 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5671 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5672 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5673 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5674 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5675 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5676 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5677 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5678 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5682 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5684 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5688 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5690 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5691 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5692 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5693 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5698 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5701 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5705 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5708 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5712 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5715 sections of shared libraries.
5716 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5717 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5718 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5719 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5720 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5721 things you don't want them to.
5722 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5723 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5727 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5730 shared libraries. (#26414)
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5734 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5736 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5737 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5738 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5739 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5743 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5745 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5747 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5749 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5750 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5751 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5752 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5753 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5757 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5760 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5764 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5767 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5768 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5773 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5776 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5780 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5783 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5784 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5785 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5786 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5787 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5789 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5790 remove debian/files properly.
5791 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5792 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5793 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5794 * Removed bogus menu file.
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5798 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5801 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5805 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5808 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5809 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5810 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5811 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5812 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5813 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5817 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5820 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5821 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5822 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5823 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5827 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5834 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5837 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5838 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5840 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5841 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5842 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5843 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5844 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5845 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5849 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5851 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5852 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5853 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5854 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5855 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5856 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5857 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5858 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5859 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5860 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5861 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5862 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5863 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5864 passed any switches.
5865 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5869 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5872 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5873 at all for a long while.
5874 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5875 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5876 large chunks in the process.
5877 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5878 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5879 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5884 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5887 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5889 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5894 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5896 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5897 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5898 that don't always have the same files in them.
5899 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5900 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5901 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5905 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5909 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5910 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5911 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5912 updating 27 man pages.
5913 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5914 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5915 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5916 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5917 programs act on. (#25247)
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5921 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5925 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5926 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5927 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5928 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5929 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5930 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5935 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5937 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5942 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5944 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5949 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5952 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5956 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5962 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5965 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5966 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5967 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5968 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5969 package by accident.
5970 * Is version 1.0 next?
5972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5974 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5976 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5977 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5978 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5982 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5984 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5985 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5986 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5987 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5988 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5989 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5991 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5996 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5999 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6000 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6004 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6007 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6011 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6013 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6014 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6015 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6020 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6022 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6026 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6029 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6030 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6035 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6037 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6041 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6044 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6045 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6046 past week. Thanks, guys!
6048 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6049 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6050 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6051 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6052 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6053 would do in the same situation.
6054 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6055 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6057 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6059 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6060 permissions changed.
6061 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6062 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6063 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6064 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6065 files are treated identically.
6066 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6067 * Minor man page fixes.
6068 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6069 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6070 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6074 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6076 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6077 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6078 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6079 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6080 use -X multiple times, too.
6081 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6082 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6086 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6088 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6089 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6090 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6094 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6097 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6101 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6103 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6104 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6105 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6106 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6107 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6108 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6109 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6110 shape if you're starting a new package.
6112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6114 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6116 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6117 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6121 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6123 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6124 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6125 because of missing symlinks.
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6129 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6131 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6135 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6137 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6138 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6139 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6140 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6141 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6142 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6144 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6145 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6149 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6151 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6152 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6153 to be changed after the fact :-)
6154 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6158 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6160 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6161 no version string after the -V.
6163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6165 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6167 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6168 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6173 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6175 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6176 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6180 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6182 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6183 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6184 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6185 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6186 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6187 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6188 I always welcome corrections!
6190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6192 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6194 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6198 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6201 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6202 * Documented this new switch.
6204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6206 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6208 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6209 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6210 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6211 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6212 no packages use the old behavior.
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6216 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6219 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6220 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6224 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6226 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6227 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6231 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6233 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6237 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6239 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6240 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6244 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6246 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6247 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6248 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6249 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6253 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6255 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6259 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6261 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6262 into the source package by accident.
6264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6266 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6268 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6269 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6270 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6271 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6272 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6273 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6274 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6279 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6281 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6283 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6284 inspired to implement some of it.
6285 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6289 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6291 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6292 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6296 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6298 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6299 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6300 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6304 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6306 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6307 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6308 have done.) (#17598)
6310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6312 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6314 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6318 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6320 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6324 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6327 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6331 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6333 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6334 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6335 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6339 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6341 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6342 argument processor in perl.
6343 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6344 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6345 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6346 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6350 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6352 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6353 type directories. (#16933)
6354 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6355 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6356 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6357 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6358 are supported. (#16935)
6359 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6364 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6366 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6367 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6371 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6373 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6375 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6376 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6377 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6378 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6379 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6380 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6384 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6386 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6387 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6388 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6390 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6391 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6392 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6393 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6394 a given package, or -i or -a.
6395 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6396 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6397 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6398 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6399 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6400 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6401 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6402 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6403 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6405 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6406 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6407 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6411 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6413 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6414 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6415 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6420 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6422 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6423 does not have a section.
6425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6427 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6429 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6430 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6431 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6432 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6436 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6438 * Fixed typo #16215.
6440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6442 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6444 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6445 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6446 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6447 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6448 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6449 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6454 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6456 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6457 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6458 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6459 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6464 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6466 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6470 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6472 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6476 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6478 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6479 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6480 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6481 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6482 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6483 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6484 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6488 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6490 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6494 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6496 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6497 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6501 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6504 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6505 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6506 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6510 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6512 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6513 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6517 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6519 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6523 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6525 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6526 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6530 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6532 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6533 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6537 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6539 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6543 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6545 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6546 postinst, postrm, etc.
6548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6550 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6552 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6556 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6558 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6559 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6560 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6561 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6562 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6563 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6567 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6569 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6570 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6571 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6575 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6577 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6578 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6582 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6584 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6585 installing package files into.
6586 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6591 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6593 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6595 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6599 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6601 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6605 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6607 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6608 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6612 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6614 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6615 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6616 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6617 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6618 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6622 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6624 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6625 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6626 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6627 multiple binary packages.
6628 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6629 should rebuild them with this version.
6630 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6634 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6636 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6637 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6641 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6643 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6644 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6648 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6650 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6651 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6652 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6653 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6654 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6655 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6656 debian/README.debian.
6657 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6658 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6659 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6660 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6661 in a few situations.)
6663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6665 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6667 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6671 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6673 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6677 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6679 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6680 * Fixed several man pages.
6682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6684 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6686 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6687 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6688 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6692 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6694 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6695 is ready for general use.
6696 * Added man pages for all commands.
6697 * Multiple binary package support.
6698 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6699 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6700 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6702 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6703 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6704 auto-installed as parameters.
6705 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6707 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6710 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6711 the package build directory it is to act on.
6712 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6713 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6714 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6718 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6720 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6721 ready to replace debstd.
6723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400