1 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
4 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
5 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
6 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
7 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
8 options that they do not support.
9 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
10 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
11 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
12 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
13 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
14 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
19 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
23 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
24 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
25 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
26 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
27 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
28 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
29 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
30 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
31 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
35 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
38 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
39 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
40 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
41 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
45 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Typo. Closes: #558654
48 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
49 installed. Closes: #558782
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
53 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
56 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
57 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
58 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
59 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
60 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
64 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
66 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
67 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
68 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
69 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
73 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
76 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
77 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
81 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
83 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
87 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
89 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
90 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
91 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
92 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
93 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
94 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
95 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
96 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
97 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
98 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
99 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
100 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
101 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
102 time soon.) Closes: #554509
103 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
105 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
106 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
107 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
108 document id. Closes: #555677
109 * Typo. Closes: #555659
110 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
111 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
112 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
113 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
115 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
116 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
117 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
122 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
125 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
126 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
127 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
128 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
129 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
130 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
131 translation (#494300 part 2)
134 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
136 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
137 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
138 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
139 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
140 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
144 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
147 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
148 (It was only run once due to logging.)
149 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
150 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
151 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
152 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
153 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
154 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
155 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
156 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
157 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
158 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
162 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
166 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
169 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
170 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
174 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
177 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
178 flag with arch all/any packages.
179 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
180 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
181 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
182 situation. Closes: #540794
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
186 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
190 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
191 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
192 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
193 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
194 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
197 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
198 the default. Closes: #538201
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
203 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
207 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
208 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
209 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
210 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
211 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
213 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
214 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
215 * Above Closes: #491117
216 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
221 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
227 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
228 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
229 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
233 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
236 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
237 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
238 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
239 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
240 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
245 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
248 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
249 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
253 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
255 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
259 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
261 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
262 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
264 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
265 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
266 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
270 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
272 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
273 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
277 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
283 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
285 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
286 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
287 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
292 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
294 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
298 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
301 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
302 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
303 created by using `python' first during build and install.
305 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
310 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
312 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
316 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
318 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
319 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
323 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
325 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
329 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
331 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
335 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
337 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
338 contributed by Modestas Vainius
339 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
340 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
341 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
342 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
343 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
344 that support it. Closes: #480577
345 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
346 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
347 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
349 - Adds support for cmake.
350 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
351 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
353 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
355 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
356 that use them. The options are:
357 --sourcedir, --destdir
358 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
359 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
360 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
361 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
362 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
366 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
372 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
375 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
376 default. Closes: #537140
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
380 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
383 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
384 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
388 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
391 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
395 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
398 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
402 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
404 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
405 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
407 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
408 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
409 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
413 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
416 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
417 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
418 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
422 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
425 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
426 warning or deprecation message.
427 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
428 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
429 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
430 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
431 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
432 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
433 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
434 Closes: #534639, #357434
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
438 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
444 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
447 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
448 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
449 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
450 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
452 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
453 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
454 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
458 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
460 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
464 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
471 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
474 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
478 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
482 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
483 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
485 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
486 file support. Closes: #494914
487 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
491 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
494 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
495 parameters. Closes: #527256
496 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
497 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
498 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
502 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
506 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
507 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
508 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
512 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
514 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
515 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
516 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
517 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
521 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
524 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
525 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
527 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
528 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
529 by triggers). Closes: #521181
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
533 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
537 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
541 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
544 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
545 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
546 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
547 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
552 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
558 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
561 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
562 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
563 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
564 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
565 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
567 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
568 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
569 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
570 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
571 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
572 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
576 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
579 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
580 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
581 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
582 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
583 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
585 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
589 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
591 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
595 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
597 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
598 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
599 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
600 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
601 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
602 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
603 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
604 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
605 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
606 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
607 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
611 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
613 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
614 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
616 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
617 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
618 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
619 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
621 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
622 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
626 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
628 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
629 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
630 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
631 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
632 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
633 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
634 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
636 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
637 that uses them. Affected options are:
638 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
639 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
640 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
641 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
642 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
643 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
644 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
645 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
646 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
647 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
648 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
649 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
653 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
660 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
666 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
668 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
669 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
671 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
672 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
673 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
674 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
675 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
677 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
679 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
680 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
681 rules (see bug #509756).
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
685 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
691 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
692 * Typo. Closes: #493062
693 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
694 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
698 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
701 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
702 empty files. Closes: #490937
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
706 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
708 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
712 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
719 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
722 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
723 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
724 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
725 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
730 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
732 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
733 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
734 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
735 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
739 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
742 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
743 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
744 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
745 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
746 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
750 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
757 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
759 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
760 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
761 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
762 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
763 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
764 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
765 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
766 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
767 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
768 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
772 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
774 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
775 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
776 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
777 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
778 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
780 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
781 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
782 breaking backwards compatibility.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
786 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
789 message in perl 5.10.
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
793 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
799 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
801 * Convert copyright file to new format.
802 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
806 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
809 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
813 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
816 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
817 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
818 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
819 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
820 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
821 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
822 logging by dh_listpackages.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
826 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
829 run and there are no packages of that type.
830 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
831 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
832 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
833 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
835 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
836 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
840 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
842 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
843 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
844 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
848 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
851 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
852 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
854 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
855 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
856 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
857 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
858 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
859 planned but not yet implemented.)
860 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
861 if the Makefile has such a target.
862 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
863 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
864 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
865 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
866 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
867 but not yet implemented.)
868 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
869 recommended default, especially when using dh.
870 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
871 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
872 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
874 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
876 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
877 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
879 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
880 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
881 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
886 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
889 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
890 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
894 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
896 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
897 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
898 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
902 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
908 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
914 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
917 just those installed by the program.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
921 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
924 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
925 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
929 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
931 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
932 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
933 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
934 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
935 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
939 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
942 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
943 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
947 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
950 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
951 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
955 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
958 with policy. Closes: #461392
959 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
960 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
961 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
962 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
963 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
967 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
970 Closes: #460340, #460351
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
974 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
977 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
978 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
979 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
980 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
984 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
987 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
988 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
989 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
990 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
991 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
992 package build directory won't work.
993 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
994 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
995 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
996 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
997 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
998 mode. Closes: #459426
999 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1004 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1007 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1011 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1015 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1016 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1017 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1018 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1019 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1020 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1024 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1027 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1028 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1029 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1030 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1034 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1037 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1038 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1039 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1040 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1041 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1045 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1048 debian/package.triggers files.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1052 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1055 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1059 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1062 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1063 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1064 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1065 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1070 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1073 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1077 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1080 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1081 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1083 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1088 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1092 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1093 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1094 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1098 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1105 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1112 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1115 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1117 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1118 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1119 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1121 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1122 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1123 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1127 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1130 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1131 * Update urls to web page.
1132 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1133 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1134 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1135 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1139 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1142 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1143 - typo in alternatives call
1144 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1146 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1147 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1151 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1154 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1159 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1165 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1171 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1174 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1176 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1177 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1178 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1179 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1180 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1181 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1182 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1183 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1184 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1185 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1186 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1190 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1193 package install. Closes: #415717
1194 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1195 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1196 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1197 script and then remove the python files.
1198 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1199 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1200 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1201 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1202 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1203 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1204 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1205 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1206 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1207 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1208 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1209 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1210 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1214 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Correct typo in french translation
1220 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1221 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1223 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1225 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1226 Closes: #406921, #381940
1227 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1229 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1230 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1231 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1232 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1233 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1234 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1235 specified). Closes: #381851
1236 * Misc minor changes.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1240 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1247 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1248 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1252 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1258 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1259 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1262 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1263 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1265 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1266 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1267 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1268 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1272 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1275 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1278 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1282 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1288 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1294 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1295 a difficult situation.
1296 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1297 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1298 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1299 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1300 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1301 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1302 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1303 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1304 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1305 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1309 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Non-maintainer upload.
1312 * Update of dh_python
1313 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1314 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1316 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1317 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1318 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1319 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1320 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1322 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1324 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Non-maintainer upload.
1327 * Update of dh_python
1328 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1329 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1330 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1331 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1332 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1333 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1334 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1335 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1336 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1337 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1339 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1340 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1341 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1342 the not too-distant future).
1343 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1344 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1345 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1346 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1347 thus made the build fail.
1349 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1351 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Non-maintainer upload.
1354 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1356 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1358 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1361 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1362 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1363 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1364 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1365 package. Closes: #301424
1366 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1367 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1368 fonts). Closes: #372686
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1372 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1378 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1379 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1380 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1381 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1382 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1383 above, but already depends on that.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1387 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1390 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1391 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1392 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1393 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1394 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1398 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1404 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1410 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1411 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1415 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1418 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1422 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1426 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1427 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1428 new version (0.24.1).
1429 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1430 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1433 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1434 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1435 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1436 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1437 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1438 new directory on their own.
1439 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1440 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1444 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1447 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1448 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1449 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1450 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1454 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1457 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1458 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1459 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1460 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1461 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1465 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1471 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1475 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1476 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1480 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1481 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1485 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1487 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1488 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1490 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1491 ignored. Closes: #337664
1493 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1498 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1504 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1509 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1510 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1511 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1512 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1513 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1514 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1515 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1519 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1522 version. Closes: #350607
1523 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1524 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1525 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1526 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1530 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1533 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1534 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1535 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1539 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1546 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1552 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1555 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1559 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1562 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1563 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1564 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1565 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1566 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1567 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1571 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1574 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1575 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1580 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1583 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1587 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1590 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1594 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1597 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1598 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1599 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1600 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1601 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1602 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1606 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1610 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1611 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1612 link. Closes: #346405
1613 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1615 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1616 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1617 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1618 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1619 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1620 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1621 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1625 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1632 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1638 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1641 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1645 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1648 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1653 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1657 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1658 installed. Closes: #342033
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1662 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1665 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1666 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1667 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1672 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1678 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1684 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1688 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1689 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1690 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1694 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1697 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1702 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1709 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1715 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1718 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1719 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1720 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1721 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1722 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1723 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1724 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1726 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1730 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1733 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1734 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1738 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1741 in standard man dirs.
1742 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1746 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1752 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1755 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1760 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1767 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1774 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1777 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1778 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1782 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1785 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1786 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1787 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1789 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1791 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1797 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1803 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1806 mode. Closes: #324161
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1810 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1813 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1814 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1815 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1816 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1821 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1824 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1825 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1826 is necesary for sanity.
1827 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1828 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1833 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1835 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1836 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1840 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1843 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1847 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1853 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1856 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1857 released, so use at your own risk.
1858 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1859 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1861 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1862 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1863 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1864 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1865 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1866 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1867 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1868 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1869 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1870 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1871 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1872 including twice per config file line now..
1873 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1874 and simplfy the rules file.
1875 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1876 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1877 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1879 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1880 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1884 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1887 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1891 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1894 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1898 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1901 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1905 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1908 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1909 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1910 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1911 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1912 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1913 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1917 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1920 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1921 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1922 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1927 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1930 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1931 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1936 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1939 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1940 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1941 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1946 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1949 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1950 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1951 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1955 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1961 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1968 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1971 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1972 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1973 unknown. Closes: #282924
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1977 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1984 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Spanish man page updates.
1987 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2001 * dh_desktop: reindent
2002 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2003 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2007 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2013 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2015 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2019 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2021 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2025 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2028 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2029 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2033 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2039 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2045 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2052 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2055 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2059 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2062 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2063 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2064 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2065 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2066 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2067 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2069 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2070 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2071 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2072 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2073 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2074 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2075 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2076 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2077 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2078 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2079 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2080 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2081 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2082 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2083 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2084 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2088 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2095 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2098 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2102 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2105 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2109 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2112 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2116 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2119 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2123 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2129 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2135 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2141 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2144 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2145 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2146 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2150 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2153 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2157 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2160 but occasionally right and necessary.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2164 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2167 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2168 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2169 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2170 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2171 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2175 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2178 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2180 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2181 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2182 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2183 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2184 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2185 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2186 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2187 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2188 postinst scripts for udebs.
2189 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2193 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2196 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2198 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2199 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2203 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2209 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2216 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2223 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2226 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2230 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2233 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2237 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2240 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2243 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2244 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2248 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2254 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2257 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2261 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2264 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2265 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2266 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2268 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2270 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2271 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2272 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2276 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2279 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2284 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2287 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2288 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2289 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2294 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2300 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2306 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2309 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2310 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2311 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2312 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2313 associated -dbg packages.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2317 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2320 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2324 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2327 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2331 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2334 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2338 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2341 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2346 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2349 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2353 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2356 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2361 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2364 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2368 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2372 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2373 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2374 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2375 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2376 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2377 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2378 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2379 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2380 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2381 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2385 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2388 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2393 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2396 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2397 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2401 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2404 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2405 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2410 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2413 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2417 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2420 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2427 out section number. Closes: #204731
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2431 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2438 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2444 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2453 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2454 removal. Closes: #204286
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2458 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2461 renaming. Closes: #203548
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2465 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2468 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2469 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2473 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2479 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2485 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2491 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2494 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2495 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2496 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2500 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2503 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2504 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2508 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2514 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2521 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2524 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2529 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2532 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2536 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2539 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2541 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2542 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2546 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2549 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2554 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2557 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2561 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2567 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2569 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2573 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2576 it break hard links (see #188663).
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2580 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2583 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2587 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2593 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2597 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2598 debconf-mergetemplates
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2602 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2605 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2609 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2612 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2616 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2619 * Update debhelper(1).
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2623 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2626 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2627 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2628 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2629 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2630 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2634 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2637 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2638 the shell. Closes: #178524
2639 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2643 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2646 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2650 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2653 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2657 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2660 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2661 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2662 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2663 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2668 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2671 files from installation.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2675 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2678 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2679 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2683 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2686 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2690 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2693 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2697 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2703 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2709 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2713 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2714 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2716 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2720 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2723 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2724 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2725 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2726 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2730 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2733 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2737 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2740 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2741 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2745 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2749 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2754 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2760 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2764 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2765 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2766 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2771 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2774 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2775 practice. Closes: #163303
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2779 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2785 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2792 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2795 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2797 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2798 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2799 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2800 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2801 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2805 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2808 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2813 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2819 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2826 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2829 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2834 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2840 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2846 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2852 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2859 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2862 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2863 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2864 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2865 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2870 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2876 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2883 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2886 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2887 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2891 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2894 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2895 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2896 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2897 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2898 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2902 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2905 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2907 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2912 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2915 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2919 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2922 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2923 right thing. Closes: #150644
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2927 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Stupid, evil typo.
2930 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2934 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2941 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2944 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2945 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2950 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2956 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2959 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2963 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2966 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2967 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2972 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2975 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2979 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2985 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2988 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2989 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2993 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2999 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Removing perl warning message.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3005 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3008 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3009 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3010 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3011 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3012 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3013 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3014 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3015 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3019 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3025 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3032 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3035 debconf-mergetemplate.
3036 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3037 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3041 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3044 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3045 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3046 dh_install, which ...
3047 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3048 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3049 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3050 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3051 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3052 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3053 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3054 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3055 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3056 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3057 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3058 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3059 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3060 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3061 other minor changes.
3062 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3063 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3064 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3065 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3066 course there's -X ..)
3067 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3068 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3069 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3071 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3072 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3073 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3074 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3075 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3080 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3086 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3089 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3093 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3099 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3105 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3111 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3117 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3120 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3121 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3122 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3123 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3125 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3126 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3130 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3136 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3139 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3143 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3146 upset. Closes: #131322
3148 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3150 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3153 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3154 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3155 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3156 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3157 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3158 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3159 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3160 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3161 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3162 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3163 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3164 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3165 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3166 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3167 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3169 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3173 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3176 - Better indenting of generated code.
3177 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3181 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3185 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3186 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3187 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3188 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3189 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3190 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3191 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3195 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3198 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3202 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3205 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3206 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3207 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3208 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3209 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3210 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3211 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3212 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3213 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3214 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3215 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3216 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3217 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3218 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3219 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3224 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3230 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3233 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3234 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3238 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3241 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3242 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3246 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3252 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3255 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3256 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3257 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3258 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3259 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3264 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3270 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3273 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3277 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3280 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3285 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3291 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3294 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3298 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3304 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3308 Also some indentation fixes.
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3312 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3315 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3316 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3317 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3318 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3319 Closes: #106514, #85520
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3323 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3329 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3335 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3341 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3347 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3353 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3356 change it in debhelper v4..
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3360 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3366 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3369 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3373 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3376 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3380 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3386 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3389 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3390 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3391 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3392 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3393 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3394 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3395 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3396 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3397 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3398 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3399 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3400 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3404 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3407 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3411 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3418 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3421 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3422 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3423 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3424 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3425 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3426 program those options go to. So, for example,
3427 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3428 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3429 something complex. Closes: #89311
3430 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3434 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3437 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3438 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3439 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3443 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3446 through loop. Closes: #98598
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3450 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Missing semi-colon.
3453 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3454 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3458 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3461 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3462 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3463 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3467 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3470 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3471 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3475 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3478 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3482 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3485 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3486 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3490 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3493 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3494 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3495 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3499 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3502 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3503 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3504 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3508 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3511 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3515 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3521 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3527 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3533 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3539 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3542 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3546 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3549 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3550 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3551 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3552 followed. Closes: #85483
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3556 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3558 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3559 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3560 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3564 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3567 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3568 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3569 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3570 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3571 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3572 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3573 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3574 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3575 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3576 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3577 Closes: #88464, #77743
3578 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3579 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3580 us to deal with that gracefully.
3581 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3583 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3584 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3585 a while, Closes: #51225
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3589 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3595 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3598 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3602 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3606 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3611 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3614 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3615 don't make packlist files.
3616 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3617 debhelper coding standards.
3618 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3619 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3623 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3626 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3630 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3633 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3634 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3635 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3636 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3637 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3638 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3639 but is mildly deprecated.
3640 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3641 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3642 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3643 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3644 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3645 switching to statoverrides..
3646 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3647 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3648 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3649 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3650 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3651 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3653 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3654 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3655 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3656 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3657 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3658 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3659 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3660 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3661 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3663 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3664 variable names, pod man pages).
3665 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3666 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3667 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3668 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3669 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3670 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3671 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3675 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3681 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3688 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3691 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3695 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3697 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3698 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3699 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3703 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3705 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3706 they were previously ignored.
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3710 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3712 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3713 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3717 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3719 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3720 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3721 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3725 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3727 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3731 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3733 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3734 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3738 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3740 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3741 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3742 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3743 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3744 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3745 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3746 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3747 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3748 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3749 it is an obsolete program.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3753 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3755 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3759 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3763 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3765 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3769 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3771 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3773 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3775 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3779 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3785 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * typo: Closes, #78567
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3791 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3797 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3803 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3806 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3807 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3808 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3809 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3810 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3814 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3817 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3822 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3825 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3826 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3827 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3828 backwards-compatibility.
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3832 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3835 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3836 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3837 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3838 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3839 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3840 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3842 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3843 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3844 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3846 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3848 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3849 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3850 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3851 should now be raised to severity important..
3852 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3853 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3857 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3860 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3865 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3871 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3877 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3883 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3890 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3893 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3894 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3895 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3896 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3900 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3906 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3909 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3910 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3911 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3912 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3913 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3914 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3919 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3922 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3926 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3932 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3935 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3940 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3943 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3944 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3945 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3946 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3950 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3954 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3957 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3960 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3961 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3964 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3966 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3967 the TODO entry about it.
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3971 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3978 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3981 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3982 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3986 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3989 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3990 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3991 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3992 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3996 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4002 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4009 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4012 (this appears to be logal).
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4016 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4019 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4020 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4021 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4022 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4026 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4032 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4035 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4036 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4037 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4038 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4042 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4048 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4051 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4055 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4062 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4065 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4066 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4067 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4072 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4079 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4085 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4088 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4089 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4090 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4091 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4092 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4093 notice until v2 is complete.
4094 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4095 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4096 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4097 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4098 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4099 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4101 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4102 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4103 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4104 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4108 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4114 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4121 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4124 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4128 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4135 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4138 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4139 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4140 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4141 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4146 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4149 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4150 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4151 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4156 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4159 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4160 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4164 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4167 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4171 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4173 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4174 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4178 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4185 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4188 depend on the build and install targets.
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4192 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4195 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4199 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4212 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4218 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4221 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4222 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4223 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4224 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4225 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4226 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4228 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4229 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4230 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4231 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4232 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4233 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4234 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4238 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4244 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4250 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4253 right place. Closes: #55065
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4257 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4264 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4267 * Copyright date updates.
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4271 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4274 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4279 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4285 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4292 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4298 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4304 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4310 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4313 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4314 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4315 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4316 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4317 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4318 bits until all files have been registered.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4322 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * dh_installmanpages:
4325 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4326 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4327 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4328 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4329 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4330 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4331 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4332 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4333 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4334 otherwise change the result at all.
4336 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4337 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4338 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4339 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4340 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4345 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4351 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4354 act on files that don't exist.
4355 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4356 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4357 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4359 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4360 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4361 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4362 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4366 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4372 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4378 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4381 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4385 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4388 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4390 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4391 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4392 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4396 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4399 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4400 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4401 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4402 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4403 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4404 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4405 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4407 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4409 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4413 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4420 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4426 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4432 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4435 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4439 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4445 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4451 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4454 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4455 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4456 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4457 I made some changes, though:
4458 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4459 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4460 that is a clear violation of policy.
4461 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4462 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4463 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4464 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4465 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4466 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4467 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4468 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4469 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4471 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4475 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4481 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4484 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4488 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4491 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4492 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4497 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4503 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4510 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4513 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4514 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4515 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4516 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4517 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4518 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4519 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4523 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4529 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4533 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4534 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4538 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4544 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4547 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4551 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4554 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4555 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4559 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4561 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4566 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4570 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4577 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4578 for the dependancies to be generated.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4582 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4585 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4589 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4592 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4593 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4594 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4599 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4602 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4603 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4607 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4613 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4619 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4622 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4626 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4632 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4635 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4636 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4637 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4638 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4639 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4640 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4641 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4642 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4643 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4644 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4645 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4646 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4650 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4653 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4654 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4656 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4657 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4658 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4659 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4660 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4661 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4663 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4664 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4668 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4671 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4675 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4682 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4685 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4690 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4693 for building debhelper.
4694 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4698 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4705 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4708 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4712 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4715 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4716 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4717 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4718 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4719 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4720 it's always available.
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4724 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4727 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4728 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4729 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4733 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4736 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4737 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4741 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4747 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4750 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4754 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4760 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4763 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4764 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4765 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4772 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4777 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4780 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4781 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4783 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4784 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4788 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4794 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4800 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4803 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4807 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4810 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4811 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4813 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4817 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4820 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4821 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4822 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4826 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4828 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4829 things if CDPATH is set.
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4833 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4835 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4839 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4842 seems to make sense for the transition.
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4846 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4849 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4854 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4857 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4858 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4862 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4865 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4869 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4872 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4873 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4874 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4875 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4879 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4885 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4888 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4889 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4890 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4891 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4892 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4893 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4894 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4895 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4896 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4897 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4902 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4905 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4906 * README: mention doc/v2
4907 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4908 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4912 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4914 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4915 be using this script RSN.
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4919 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4922 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4923 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4924 more than 1 init script.
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4928 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4931 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4935 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * Changed perl version detection.
4938 * Changed call to find.
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4942 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4945 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4947 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4952 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * Really include dh_installpam.
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4958 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4961 * Wrote man page for same.
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4965 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4968 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4969 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4974 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4981 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4984 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4985 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4986 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4987 x bit was being set!
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4991 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4994 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4995 well. (Closes: 38900)
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4999 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5001 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5002 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5003 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5007 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5013 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5020 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5026 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5029 help from Julian Gilbey.
5030 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5031 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5032 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5033 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5034 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5035 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5036 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5041 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5047 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5054 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5060 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5066 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5069 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5073 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5075 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5076 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5080 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5083 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5087 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5093 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5095 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5096 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5100 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5106 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5112 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5115 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5116 may be deleted. (#35845)
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5120 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * Various man page enhancements.
5123 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5128 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5131 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5132 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5136 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5139 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5140 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5141 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5143 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5144 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5149 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5155 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * Another very minor typo fix.
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5161 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * Very minor typo fix.
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5167 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5170 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5171 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5175 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5181 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5184 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5185 variables properly (#34850).
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5189 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5195 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5198 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5199 (automatically generated by build process).
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5203 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5205 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5209 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5212 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5213 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5215 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5219 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5222 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5226 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * README: minor typo fix.
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5232 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5234 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5235 leave it at that. :-)
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5239 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5245 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5251 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5254 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5255 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5256 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5260 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5263 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5267 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5270 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5274 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5277 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5278 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5279 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5280 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5284 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5287 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5288 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5289 Craig Small for spotting this.
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5293 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5296 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5297 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5301 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5307 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5310 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5314 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5316 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5317 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5318 working on the last version of debhelper.
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5322 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5325 being made. (#23255)
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5329 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5335 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5338 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5342 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5345 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5346 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5347 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5348 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5352 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5355 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5356 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5357 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5358 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5360 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5361 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5363 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5368 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5374 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5380 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5383 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5384 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5385 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5386 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5387 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5388 suidregister actually supports it.
5389 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5390 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5394 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5401 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5404 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5405 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5406 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5407 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5408 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5409 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5410 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5414 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5416 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5417 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5421 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5424 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5425 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5426 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5427 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5431 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5434 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5436 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5437 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5438 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5439 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5440 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5441 effect, either. (#30118)
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5445 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5451 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5454 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5455 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5459 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5465 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5468 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5469 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5470 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5471 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5475 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5477 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5478 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5479 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5483 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5489 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5492 packages, painlessly.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5496 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5502 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5508 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5510 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5514 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * The perl conversion is complete.
5518 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5520 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5521 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5522 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5527 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5530 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5531 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5532 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5536 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5539 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5541 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5543 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5544 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5548 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5550 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5551 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5552 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5556 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5562 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5565 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5566 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5567 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5568 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5569 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5573 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5576 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5577 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5578 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5579 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5583 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5586 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5590 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5593 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5594 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5595 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5596 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5597 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5598 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5599 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5600 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5604 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5610 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5613 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5614 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5615 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5620 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5623 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5627 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5630 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5634 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5637 sections of shared libraries.
5638 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5639 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5640 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5641 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5642 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5643 things you don't want them to.
5644 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5645 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5649 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5652 shared libraries. (#26414)
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5656 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5658 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5659 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5660 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5661 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5665 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5669 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5671 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5672 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5673 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5674 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5675 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5679 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5682 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5686 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5689 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5690 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5695 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5698 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5702 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5704 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5705 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5706 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5707 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5708 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5709 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5711 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5712 remove debian/files properly.
5713 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5714 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5715 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5716 * Removed bogus menu file.
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5720 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5722 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5723 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5727 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5730 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5731 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5732 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5733 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5734 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5735 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5739 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5742 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5743 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5744 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5745 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5749 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5756 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5758 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5759 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5760 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5762 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5763 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5764 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5765 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5766 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5767 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5771 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5774 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5775 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5776 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5777 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5778 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5779 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5780 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5781 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5782 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5783 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5784 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5785 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5786 passed any switches.
5787 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5791 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5794 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5795 at all for a long while.
5796 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5797 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5798 large chunks in the process.
5799 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5800 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5801 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5806 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5808 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5809 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5811 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5816 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5819 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5820 that don't always have the same files in them.
5821 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5822 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5823 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5827 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5831 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5832 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5833 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5834 updating 27 man pages.
5835 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5836 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5837 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5838 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5839 programs act on. (#25247)
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5843 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5847 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5848 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5849 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5850 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5851 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5852 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5857 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5864 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5871 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5874 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5878 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5880 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5884 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5887 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5888 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5889 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5890 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5891 package by accident.
5892 * Is version 1.0 next?
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5896 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5899 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5900 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5904 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5907 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5908 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5909 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5910 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5911 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5913 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5918 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5921 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5922 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5926 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5929 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5933 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5936 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5937 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5942 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5944 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5948 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5951 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5952 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5957 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5959 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5963 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5965 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5966 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5967 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5968 past week. Thanks, guys!
5970 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5971 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5972 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5973 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5974 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5975 would do in the same situation.
5976 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5977 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5979 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5981 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5982 permissions changed.
5983 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5984 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5985 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5986 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5987 files are treated identically.
5988 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5989 * Minor man page fixes.
5990 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5991 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5992 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5996 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5999 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6000 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6001 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6002 use -X multiple times, too.
6003 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6004 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6008 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6010 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6011 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6012 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6016 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6018 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6019 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6023 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6026 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6027 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6028 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6029 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6030 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6031 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6032 shape if you're starting a new package.
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6036 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6039 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6043 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6045 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6046 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6047 because of missing symlinks.
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6051 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6057 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6059 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6060 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6061 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6062 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6063 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6064 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6066 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6067 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6071 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6073 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6074 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6075 to be changed after the fact :-)
6076 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6080 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6082 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6083 no version string after the -V.
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6087 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6089 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6090 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6095 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6097 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6098 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6102 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6105 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6106 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6107 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6108 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6109 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6110 I always welcome corrections!
6112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6114 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6116 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6120 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6122 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6123 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6124 * Documented this new switch.
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6128 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6131 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6132 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6133 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6134 no packages use the old behavior.
6136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6138 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6140 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6141 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6142 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6146 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6148 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6149 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6153 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6155 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6159 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6161 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6162 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6166 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6169 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6170 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6171 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6175 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6177 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6181 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6184 into the source package by accident.
6186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6188 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6190 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6191 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6192 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6193 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6194 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6195 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6196 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6201 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6203 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6205 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6206 inspired to implement some of it.
6207 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6211 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6214 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6218 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6220 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6221 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6222 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6226 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6228 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6229 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6230 have done.) (#17598)
6232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6234 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6236 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6240 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6242 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6246 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6248 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6249 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6253 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6255 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6256 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6257 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6261 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6263 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6264 argument processor in perl.
6265 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6266 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6267 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6268 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6272 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6274 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6275 type directories. (#16933)
6276 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6277 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6278 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6279 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6280 are supported. (#16935)
6281 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6286 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6289 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6293 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6297 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6298 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6299 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6300 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6301 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6302 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6306 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6308 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6309 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6310 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6312 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6313 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6314 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6315 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6316 a given package, or -i or -a.
6317 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6318 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6319 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6320 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6321 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6322 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6323 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6324 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6325 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6327 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6328 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6329 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6333 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6335 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6336 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6337 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6342 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6344 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6345 does not have a section.
6347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6349 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6351 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6352 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6353 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6354 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6358 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6360 * Fixed typo #16215.
6362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6364 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6366 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6367 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6368 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6369 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6370 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6371 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6376 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6378 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6379 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6380 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6381 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6386 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6388 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6392 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6394 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6398 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6400 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6401 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6402 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6403 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6404 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6405 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6406 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6410 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6412 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6416 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6418 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6419 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6423 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6425 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6426 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6427 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6428 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6432 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6434 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6435 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6439 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6441 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6445 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6447 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6448 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6452 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6454 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6455 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6459 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6461 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6465 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6467 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6468 postinst, postrm, etc.
6470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6472 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6474 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6478 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6480 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6481 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6482 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6483 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6484 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6485 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6489 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6491 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6492 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6493 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6497 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6499 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6500 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6504 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6506 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6507 installing package files into.
6508 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6513 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6515 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6517 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6521 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6523 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6527 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6529 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6530 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6534 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6536 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6537 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6538 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6539 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6540 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6544 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6546 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6547 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6548 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6549 multiple binary packages.
6550 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6551 should rebuild them with this version.
6552 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6556 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6558 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6559 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6563 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6565 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6566 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6570 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6572 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6573 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6574 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6575 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6576 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6577 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6578 debian/README.debian.
6579 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6580 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6581 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6582 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6583 in a few situations.)
6585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6587 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6589 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6593 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6595 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6599 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6601 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6602 * Fixed several man pages.
6604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6606 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6608 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6609 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6610 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6614 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6616 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6617 is ready for general use.
6618 * Added man pages for all commands.
6619 * Multiple binary package support.
6620 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6621 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6622 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6624 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6625 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6626 auto-installed as parameters.
6627 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6629 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6632 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6633 the package build directory it is to act on.
6634 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6635 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6636 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6640 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6642 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6643 ready to replace debstd.
6645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400