1 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
5 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
6 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
8 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
9 file support. Closes: #494914
10 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
14 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
17 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
18 parameters. Closes: #527256
19 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
20 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
21 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
25 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
29 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
30 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
31 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
35 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
38 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
39 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
40 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
44 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
47 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
48 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
50 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
51 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
52 by triggers). Closes: #521181
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
56 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
60 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
64 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
67 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
68 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
69 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
70 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
75 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
81 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
83 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
84 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
85 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
86 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
87 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
88 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
90 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
91 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
92 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
93 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
94 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
95 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
99 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
102 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
103 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
104 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
105 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
106 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
108 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
112 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
114 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
118 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
120 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
121 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
122 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
123 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
124 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
125 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
126 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
127 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
128 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
129 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
130 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
134 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
136 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
137 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
139 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
140 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
141 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
142 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
144 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
145 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
149 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
151 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
152 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
153 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
154 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
155 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
156 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
157 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
159 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
160 that uses them. Affected options are:
161 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
162 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
163 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
164 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
165 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
166 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
167 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
168 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
169 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
170 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
171 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
172 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
176 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
183 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
189 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
191 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
192 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
194 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
195 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
196 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
197 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
198 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
200 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
202 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
203 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
204 rules (see bug #509756).
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
208 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
211 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
214 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
215 * Typo. Closes: #493062
216 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
217 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
221 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
224 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
225 empty files. Closes: #490937
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
229 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
235 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
242 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
245 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
246 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
247 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
248 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
253 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
255 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
256 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
257 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
258 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
262 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
265 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
266 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
267 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
268 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
269 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
273 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
280 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
282 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
283 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
284 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
285 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
286 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
287 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
288 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
289 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
290 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
291 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
295 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
298 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
299 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
300 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
301 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
303 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
304 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
305 breaking backwards compatability.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
309 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
312 message in perl 5.10.
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
316 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
322 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Convert copyright file to new format.
325 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
329 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
332 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
336 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
339 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
340 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
341 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
342 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
343 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
344 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
345 logging by dh_listpackages.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
349 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
352 run and there are no packages of that type.
353 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
354 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
355 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
356 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
358 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
359 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
363 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
365 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
366 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
367 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
371 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
374 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
375 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
377 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
378 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
379 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
380 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
381 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
382 planned but not yet implemented.)
383 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
384 if the Makefile has such a target.
385 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
386 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
387 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
388 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
389 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
390 but not yet implemented.)
391 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
392 recommended default, especially when using dh.
393 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
394 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
395 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
397 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
399 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
400 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
402 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
403 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
404 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
409 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
411 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
412 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
413 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
417 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
419 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
420 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
421 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
425 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
431 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
437 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
439 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
440 just those installed by the program.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
444 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
447 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
448 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
452 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
455 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
456 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
457 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
458 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
462 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
465 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
466 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
470 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
473 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
474 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
478 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
481 with policy. Closes: #461392
482 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
483 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
484 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
485 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
486 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
490 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
493 Closes: #460340, #460351
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
497 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
500 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
501 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
502 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
503 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
507 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
510 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
511 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
512 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
513 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
514 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
515 package build directory won't work.
516 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
517 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
518 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
519 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
520 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
521 mode. Closes: #459426
522 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
527 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
530 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
534 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
538 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
539 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
540 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
541 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
542 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
543 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
547 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
550 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
551 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
552 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
553 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
557 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
560 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
561 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
562 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
563 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
564 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
568 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
571 debian/package.triggers files.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
575 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
578 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
582 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
585 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
586 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
587 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
588 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
593 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
596 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
600 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
603 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
604 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
606 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
611 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
615 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
616 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
617 * Typo. Closes: #441272
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
621 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
628 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
635 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
638 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
640 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
641 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
642 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
644 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
645 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
646 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
650 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
653 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
654 * Update urls to web page.
655 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
657 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
658 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
662 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
665 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
666 - typo in alternatives call
667 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
669 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
670 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
674 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
677 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
682 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
688 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
694 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
697 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
699 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
700 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
701 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
702 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
703 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
704 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
705 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
706 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
707 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
708 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
709 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
713 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
716 package install. Closes: #415717
717 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
718 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
719 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
720 script and then remove the python files.
721 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
722 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
723 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
724 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
725 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
726 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
727 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
728 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
729 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
730 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
731 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
732 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
733 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
737 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
740 * Correct typo in french translation
743 * Typo. Closes: #400571
744 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
746 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
748 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
749 Closes: #406921, #381940
750 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
752 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
753 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
754 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
755 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
756 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
757 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
758 specified). Closes: #381851
759 * Misc minor changes.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
763 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
770 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
771 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
775 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
781 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
782 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
785 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
786 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
788 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
789 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
790 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
791 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
795 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
798 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
801 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
805 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
811 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
814 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
817 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
818 a difficult situation.
819 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
820 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
821 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
822 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
823 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
824 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
825 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
826 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
827 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
828 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
832 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Non-maintainer upload.
835 * Update of dh_python
836 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
837 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
839 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
840 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
841 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
842 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
843 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
845 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
847 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Non-maintainer upload.
850 * Update of dh_python
851 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
852 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
853 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
854 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
855 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
856 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
857 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
858 specific python version. Closes: #373853
859 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
860 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
862 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
863 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
864 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
865 the not too-distant future).
866 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
867 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
868 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
869 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
870 thus made the build fail.
872 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
874 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Non-maintainer upload.
877 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
879 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
881 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
883 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
884 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
885 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
886 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
887 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
888 package. Closes: #301424
889 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
890 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
891 fonts). Closes: #372686
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
895 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
901 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
902 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
903 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
904 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
905 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
906 above, but already depends on that.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
910 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
913 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
914 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
915 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
916 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
917 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
921 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
927 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
933 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
934 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
938 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
941 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
945 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
949 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
950 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
951 new version (0.24.1).
952 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
953 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
956 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
957 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
958 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
959 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
960 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
961 new directory on their own.
962 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
963 * Fix broken directory removal code.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
967 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
970 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
971 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
972 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
973 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
977 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
980 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
981 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
982 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
983 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
984 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
988 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
994 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Typo. Closes: #358904
998 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
999 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1003 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1004 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1008 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1010 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1011 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1013 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1014 ignored. Closes: #337664
1016 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1021 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1027 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1032 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1033 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1034 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1035 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1036 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1037 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1038 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1042 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1045 version. Closes: #350607
1046 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1047 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1048 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1049 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1053 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1056 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1057 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1058 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1062 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1069 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1075 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1078 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1082 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1085 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1086 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1087 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1088 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1089 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1090 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1094 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1097 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1098 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1103 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1106 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1110 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1113 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1117 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1120 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1121 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1122 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1123 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1124 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1125 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1129 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1133 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1134 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1135 link. Closes: #346405
1136 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1138 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1139 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1140 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1141 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1142 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1143 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1144 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1148 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1155 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1161 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1164 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1168 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1171 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1176 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1180 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1181 installed. Closes: #342033
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1185 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1188 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1189 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1190 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1195 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1201 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1207 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1211 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1212 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1213 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1217 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1220 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1225 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1232 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1238 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1241 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1242 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1243 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1244 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1245 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1246 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1247 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1249 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1253 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1256 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1257 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1261 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1264 in standard man dirs.
1265 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1269 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1275 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1278 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1283 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1290 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1297 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1300 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1301 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1305 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1308 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1309 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1310 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1312 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1314 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1320 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1326 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1329 mode. Closes: #324161
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1333 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1336 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1337 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1338 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1339 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1344 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1347 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1348 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1349 is necesary for sanity.
1350 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1351 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1356 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1358 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1359 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1363 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1366 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1370 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1376 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1379 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1380 released, so use at your own risk.
1381 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1382 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1384 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1385 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1386 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1387 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1388 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1389 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1390 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1391 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1392 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1393 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1394 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1395 including twice per config file line now..
1396 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1397 and simplfy the rules file.
1398 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1399 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1400 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1402 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1403 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1407 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1410 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1414 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1417 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1421 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1424 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1428 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1431 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1432 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1433 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1434 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1435 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1436 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1440 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1443 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1444 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1445 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1450 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1453 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1454 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1459 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1462 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1463 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1464 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1469 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1472 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1473 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1474 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1478 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1484 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1491 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1494 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1495 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1496 unknown. Closes: #282924
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1500 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1507 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Spanish man page updates.
1510 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1515 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1521 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1524 * dh_desktop: reindent
1525 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1526 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1530 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1536 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1538 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1542 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1544 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1548 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1551 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1552 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1556 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1562 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1568 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1575 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1578 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1582 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1585 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1586 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1587 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1588 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1589 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1590 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1592 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1593 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1594 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1595 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1596 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1597 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1598 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1599 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1600 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1601 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1602 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1603 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1604 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1605 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1606 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1607 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1611 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1618 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1621 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1625 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1628 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1632 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1635 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1639 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1642 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1646 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1652 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1658 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1664 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1667 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1668 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1669 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1673 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1676 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1680 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1683 but occasionally right and necessary.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1687 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1690 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1691 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1692 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1693 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1694 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1698 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1701 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1703 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1704 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1705 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1706 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1707 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1708 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1709 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1710 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1711 postinst scripts for udebs.
1712 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1716 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1719 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1721 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1722 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1726 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1732 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1739 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1746 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1749 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1753 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1756 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1760 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1763 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1766 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1767 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1771 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1777 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1780 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1784 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1787 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1788 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1789 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1791 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1793 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1794 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1795 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1799 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1802 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1807 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1810 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1811 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1812 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1817 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1823 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1829 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1832 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1833 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1834 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1835 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1836 associated -dbg packages.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1840 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1843 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1847 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1850 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1854 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1857 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1861 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1864 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1869 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1872 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1876 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1879 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1884 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1887 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1891 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1895 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1896 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1897 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1898 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1899 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1900 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1901 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1902 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1903 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1904 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1908 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1911 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1916 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1919 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1920 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1924 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1927 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1928 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1933 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1936 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1940 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1943 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1950 out section number. Closes: #204731
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1954 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1961 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1967 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1973 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1976 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1977 removal. Closes: #204286
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1981 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1984 renaming. Closes: #203548
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1988 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1991 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1992 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2002 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2008 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2014 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2017 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2018 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2019 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2023 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2026 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2027 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2031 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2037 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2044 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2047 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2052 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2055 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2059 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2062 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2064 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2065 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2069 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2072 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2077 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2080 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2084 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2090 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2092 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2096 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2099 it break hard links (see #188663).
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2103 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2106 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2110 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2116 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2120 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2121 debconf-mergetemplates
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2125 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2128 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2132 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2135 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2139 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2142 * Update debhelper(1).
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2146 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2149 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2150 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2151 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2152 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2153 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2157 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2160 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2161 the shell. Closes: #178524
2162 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2166 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2169 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2173 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2176 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2180 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2183 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2184 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2185 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2186 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2191 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2194 files from installation.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2198 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2201 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2202 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2206 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2209 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2213 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2216 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2220 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2226 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2232 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2236 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2237 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2239 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2243 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2246 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2247 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2248 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2249 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2253 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2256 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2260 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2263 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2264 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2268 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2272 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2277 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2283 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2287 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2288 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2289 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2297 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2298 practice. Closes: #163303
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2302 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2308 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2315 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2318 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2320 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2321 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2322 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2323 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2324 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2328 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2331 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2336 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2349 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2352 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2357 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2363 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2369 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2375 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2382 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2385 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2386 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2387 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2388 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2393 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2399 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2409 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2410 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2414 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2417 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2418 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2419 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2420 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2421 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2425 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2428 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2430 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2438 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2442 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2445 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2446 right thing. Closes: #150644
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Stupid, evil typo.
2453 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2457 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2464 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2467 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2468 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2473 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2479 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2482 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2486 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2489 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2490 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2495 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2498 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2508 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2511 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2512 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2516 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Removing perl warning message.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2528 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2531 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2532 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2533 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2534 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2535 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2536 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2537 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2538 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2542 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2548 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2555 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2558 debconf-mergetemplate.
2559 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2560 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2564 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2567 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2568 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2569 dh_install, which ...
2570 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2571 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2572 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2573 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2574 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2575 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2576 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2577 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2578 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2579 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2580 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2581 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2582 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2583 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2584 other minor changes.
2585 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2586 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2587 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2588 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2589 course there's -X ..)
2590 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2591 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2592 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2594 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2595 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2596 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2597 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2598 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2603 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2609 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2612 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2616 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2622 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2628 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2634 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2640 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2643 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2644 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2645 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2646 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2648 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2649 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2653 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2659 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2662 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2666 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2669 upset. Closes: #131322
2671 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2673 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2676 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2677 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2678 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2679 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2680 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2681 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2682 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2683 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2684 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2685 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2686 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2687 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2688 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2689 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2690 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2692 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2696 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2699 - Better indenting of generated code.
2700 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2704 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2708 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2709 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2710 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2711 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2712 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2713 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2714 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2718 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2721 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2725 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2728 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2729 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2730 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2731 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2732 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2733 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2734 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2735 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2736 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2737 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2738 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2739 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2740 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2741 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2742 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2747 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2753 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2756 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2757 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2761 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2764 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2765 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2769 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2775 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2778 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2779 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2780 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2781 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2782 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2787 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2793 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2796 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2800 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2803 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2808 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2814 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2817 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2821 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2827 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2831 Also some indentation fixes.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2835 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2838 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2839 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2840 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2841 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2842 Closes: #106514, #85520
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2846 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2852 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2858 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2864 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2870 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2876 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2879 change it in debhelper v4..
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2883 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2889 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2892 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2896 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2899 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2903 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2909 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2912 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2913 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2914 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2915 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2916 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2917 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2918 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2919 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2920 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2921 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2922 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2923 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2927 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2930 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2934 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2941 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2944 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2945 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2946 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2947 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2948 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2949 program those options go to. So, for example,
2950 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2951 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2952 something complex. Closes: #89311
2953 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2957 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2960 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2961 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2962 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2966 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2969 through loop. Closes: #98598
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2973 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Missing semi-colon.
2976 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2977 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2981 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2984 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2985 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2986 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2990 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2993 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2994 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2998 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3001 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3005 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3008 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3009 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3013 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3016 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3017 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3018 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3022 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3025 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3026 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3027 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3031 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3034 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3038 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3044 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3050 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3056 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3062 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3065 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3069 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3072 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3073 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3074 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3075 followed. Closes: #85483
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3079 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3081 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3082 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3083 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3087 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3090 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3091 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3092 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3093 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3094 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3095 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3096 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3097 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3098 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3099 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3100 Closes: #88464, #77743
3101 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3102 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3103 us to deal with that gracefully.
3104 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3106 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3107 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3108 a while, Closes: #51225
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3112 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3118 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3121 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3125 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3129 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3134 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3137 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3138 don't make packlist files.
3139 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3140 debhelper coding standards.
3141 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3142 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3146 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3149 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3153 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3156 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3157 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3158 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3159 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3160 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3161 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3162 but is mildly deprecated.
3163 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3164 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3165 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3166 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3167 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3168 switching to statoverrides..
3169 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3170 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3171 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3172 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3173 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3174 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3176 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3177 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3178 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3179 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3180 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3181 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3182 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3183 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3184 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3186 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3187 variable names, pod man pages).
3188 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3189 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3190 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3191 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3192 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3193 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3194 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3198 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3204 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3211 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3214 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3218 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3220 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3221 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3222 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3226 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3228 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3229 they were previously ignored.
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3233 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3235 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3236 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3240 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3242 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3243 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3244 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3248 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3250 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3254 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3256 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3257 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3261 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3263 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3264 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3265 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3266 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3267 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3268 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3269 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3270 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3271 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3272 it is an obsolete program.
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3276 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3278 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3282 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3286 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3288 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3292 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3294 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3296 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3298 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3302 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3308 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * typo: Closes, #78567
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3314 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3320 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3326 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3329 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3330 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3331 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3332 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3333 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3337 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3340 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3345 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3348 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3349 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3350 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3351 backwards-compatability.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3355 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3358 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3359 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3360 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3361 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3362 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3363 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3365 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3366 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3367 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3369 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3371 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3372 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3373 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3374 should now be raised to severity important..
3375 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3376 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3380 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3383 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3388 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3394 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3400 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3406 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3413 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3416 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3417 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3418 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3419 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3423 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3429 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3432 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3433 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3434 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3435 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3436 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3437 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3442 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3445 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3449 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3455 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3458 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3463 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3466 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3467 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3468 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3469 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3473 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3477 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3480 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3483 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3484 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3487 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3489 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3490 the TODO entry about it.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3494 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3501 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3504 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3505 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3509 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3512 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3513 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3514 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3515 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3519 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3525 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3532 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3535 (this appears to be logal).
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3539 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3542 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3543 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3544 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3545 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3549 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3555 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3558 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3559 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3560 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3561 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3565 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3571 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3574 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3578 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3585 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3588 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3589 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3590 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3595 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3602 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3608 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3611 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3612 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3613 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3614 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3615 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3616 notice until v2 is complete.
3617 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3618 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3619 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3620 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3621 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3622 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3624 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3625 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3626 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3627 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3631 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3637 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3644 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3647 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3651 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3658 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3661 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3662 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3663 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3664 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3669 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3672 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3673 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3674 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3679 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3682 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3683 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3687 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3690 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3694 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3697 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3701 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3708 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3711 depend on the build and install targets.
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3715 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3718 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3722 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3729 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3735 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3741 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3744 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3745 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3746 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3747 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3748 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3749 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3751 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3752 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3753 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3754 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3755 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3756 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3757 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3761 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3767 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3773 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3776 right place. Closes: #55065
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3780 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3787 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3790 * Copyright date updates.
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3794 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3797 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3802 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3808 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3815 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3821 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3827 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3833 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3836 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3837 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3838 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3839 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3840 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3841 bits until all files have been registered.
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3845 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * dh_installmanpages:
3848 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3849 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3850 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3851 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3852 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3853 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3854 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3855 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3856 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3857 otherwise change the result at all.
3859 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3860 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3861 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3862 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3863 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3868 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3874 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3877 act on files that don't exist.
3878 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3879 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3880 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3882 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3883 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3884 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3885 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3889 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3895 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3901 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3904 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3908 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3911 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3913 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3914 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3915 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3919 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3922 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3923 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3924 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3925 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3926 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3927 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3928 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3930 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3932 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3936 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3943 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3949 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3955 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3958 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3962 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3968 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3974 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3977 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3978 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3979 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3980 I made some changes, though:
3981 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3982 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3983 that is a clear violation of policy.
3984 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3985 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3986 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3987 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3988 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3989 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3990 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3991 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3992 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3994 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4004 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4007 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4011 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4014 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4015 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4020 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4026 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4033 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4036 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4037 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4038 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4039 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4040 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4041 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4042 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4046 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4052 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4056 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4057 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4061 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4067 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4070 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4074 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4077 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4078 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4082 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4084 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4089 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4093 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4097 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4100 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4101 for the dependancies to be generated.
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4105 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4108 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4112 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4115 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4116 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4117 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4122 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4125 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4126 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4130 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4142 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4145 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4149 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4155 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4158 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4159 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4160 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4161 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4162 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4163 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4164 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4165 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4166 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4167 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4168 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4169 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4176 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4177 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4179 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4180 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4181 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4182 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4183 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4184 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4186 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4187 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4191 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4194 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4198 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4205 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4208 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4213 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4216 for building debhelper.
4217 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4221 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4228 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4231 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4235 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4238 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4239 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4240 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4241 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4242 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4243 it's always available.
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4247 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4250 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4251 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4252 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4256 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4259 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4260 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4264 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4270 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4273 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4283 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4286 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4287 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4288 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4292 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4295 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4300 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4303 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4304 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4306 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4307 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4311 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4317 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4323 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4326 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4330 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4333 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4334 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4336 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4340 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4343 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4344 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4345 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4349 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4352 things if CDPATH is set.
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4356 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4362 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4365 seems to make sense for the transition.
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4369 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4372 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4377 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4380 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4381 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4385 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4388 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4392 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4394 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4395 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4396 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4397 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4398 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4402 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4408 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4411 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4412 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4413 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4414 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4415 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4416 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4417 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4418 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4419 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4420 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4425 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4428 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4429 * README: mention doc/v2
4430 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4431 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4435 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4437 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4438 be using this script RSN.
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4442 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4445 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4446 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4447 more than 1 init script.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4451 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4454 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4458 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * Changed perl version detection.
4461 * Changed call to find.
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4465 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4468 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4470 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4475 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Really include dh_installpam.
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4481 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4484 * Wrote man page for same.
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4488 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4491 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4492 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4497 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4504 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4507 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4508 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4509 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4510 x bit was being set!
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4514 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4516 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4517 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4518 well. (Closes: 38900)
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4522 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4525 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4526 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4530 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4536 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4543 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4549 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4552 help from Julian Gilbey.
4553 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4554 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4555 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4556 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4557 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4558 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4559 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4564 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4570 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4577 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4583 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4589 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4592 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4596 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4599 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4603 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4606 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4610 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4616 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4619 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4623 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4629 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4635 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4638 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4639 may be deleted. (#35845)
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4643 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * Various man page enhancements.
4646 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4651 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4654 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4655 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4659 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4662 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4663 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4664 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4666 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4667 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4672 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4678 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * Another very minor typo fix.
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4684 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * Very minor typo fix.
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4690 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4693 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4694 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4698 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4704 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4707 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4708 variables properly (#34850).
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4712 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4718 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4721 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4722 (automatically generated by build process).
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4726 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4728 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4732 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4735 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4736 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4738 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4742 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4745 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4749 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * README: minor typo fix.
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4755 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4758 leave it at that. :-)
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4762 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4768 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4774 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4777 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4778 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4779 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4783 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4786 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4790 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4793 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4797 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4800 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4801 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4802 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4803 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4807 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4810 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4811 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4812 Craig Small for spotting this.
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4816 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4819 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4820 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4824 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4830 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4833 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4837 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4839 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4840 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4841 working on the last version of debhelper.
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4845 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4848 being made. (#23255)
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4852 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4858 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4861 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4865 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4868 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4869 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4870 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4871 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4875 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4878 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4879 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4880 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4881 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4883 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4884 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4886 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4891 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4897 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4903 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4906 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4907 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4908 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4909 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4910 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4911 suidregister actually supports it.
4912 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4913 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4917 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4924 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4927 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4928 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4929 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4930 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4931 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4932 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4933 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4937 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4939 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4940 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4944 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4947 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4948 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4949 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4950 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4954 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4957 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4959 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4960 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4961 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4962 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4963 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4964 effect, either. (#30118)
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4968 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4974 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4977 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4978 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4982 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4988 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4991 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4992 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4993 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4994 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4998 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5001 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5002 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5006 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5012 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5014 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5015 packages, painlessly.
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5019 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5025 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5031 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5037 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * The perl conversion is complete.
5041 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5043 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5044 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5045 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5050 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5053 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5054 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5055 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5059 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5062 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5064 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5066 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5067 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5071 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5074 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5075 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5079 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5085 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5088 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5089 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5090 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5091 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5092 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5096 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5099 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5100 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5101 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5102 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5106 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5109 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5113 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5116 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5117 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5118 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5119 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5120 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5121 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5122 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5123 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5127 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5133 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5136 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5137 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5138 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5143 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5146 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5150 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5152 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5153 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5157 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5160 sections of shared libraries.
5161 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5162 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5163 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5164 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5165 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5166 things you don't want them to.
5167 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5168 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5172 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5174 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5175 shared libraries. (#26414)
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5179 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5181 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5182 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5183 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5184 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5188 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5192 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5194 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5195 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5196 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5197 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5198 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5202 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5205 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5209 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5212 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5213 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5218 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5221 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5225 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5228 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5229 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5230 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5231 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5232 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5234 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5235 remove debian/files properly.
5236 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5237 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5238 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5239 * Removed bogus menu file.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5243 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5246 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5250 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5253 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5254 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5255 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5256 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5257 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5258 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5262 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5265 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5266 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5267 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5268 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5272 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5279 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5282 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5283 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5285 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5286 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5287 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5288 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5289 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5290 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5294 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5297 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5298 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5299 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5300 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5301 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5302 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5303 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5304 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5305 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5306 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5307 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5308 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5309 passed any switches.
5310 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5314 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5317 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5318 at all for a long while.
5319 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5320 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5321 large chunks in the process.
5322 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5323 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5324 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5329 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5332 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5334 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5339 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5342 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5343 that don't always have the same files in them.
5344 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5345 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5346 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5350 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5354 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5355 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5356 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5357 updating 27 man pages.
5358 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5359 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5360 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5361 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5362 programs act on. (#25247)
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5366 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5370 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5371 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5372 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5373 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5374 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5375 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5380 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5387 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5394 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5397 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5401 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5407 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5410 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5411 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5412 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5413 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5414 package by accident.
5415 * Is version 1.0 next?
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5419 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5421 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5422 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5423 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5427 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5430 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5431 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5432 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5433 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5434 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5436 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5441 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5444 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5445 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5449 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5452 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5456 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5459 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5460 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5465 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5471 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5474 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5475 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5480 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5486 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5489 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5490 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5491 past week. Thanks, guys!
5493 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5494 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5495 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5496 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5497 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5498 would do in the same situation.
5499 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5500 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5502 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5504 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5505 permissions changed.
5506 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5507 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5508 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5509 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5510 files are treated identically.
5511 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5512 * Minor man page fixes.
5513 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5514 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5515 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5519 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5522 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5523 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5524 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5525 use -X multiple times, too.
5526 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5527 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5531 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5533 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5534 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5535 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5539 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5542 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5546 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5549 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5550 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5551 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5552 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5553 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5554 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5555 shape if you're starting a new package.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5559 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5562 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5566 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5569 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5570 because of missing symlinks.
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5574 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5580 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5583 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5584 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5585 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5586 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5587 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5589 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5590 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5594 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5596 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5597 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5598 to be changed after the fact :-)
5599 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5603 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5605 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5606 no version string after the -V.
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5610 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5612 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5613 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5618 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5621 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5625 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5628 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5629 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5630 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5631 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5632 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5633 I always welcome corrections!
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5637 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5639 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5643 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5646 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5647 * Documented this new switch.
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5651 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5654 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5655 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5656 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5657 no packages use the old behavior.
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5661 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5664 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5665 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5669 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5671 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5672 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5676 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5682 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5684 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5685 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5689 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5692 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5693 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5694 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5698 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5704 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5706 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5707 into the source package by accident.
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5711 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5714 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5715 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5716 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5717 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5718 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5719 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5724 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5728 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5729 inspired to implement some of it.
5730 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5734 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5737 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5741 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5744 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5745 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5749 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5752 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5753 have done.) (#17598)
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5757 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5763 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5765 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5769 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5772 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5776 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5779 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5780 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5784 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5787 argument processor in perl.
5788 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5789 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5790 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5791 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5795 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5797 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5798 type directories. (#16933)
5799 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5800 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5801 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5802 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5803 are supported. (#16935)
5804 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5809 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5812 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5816 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5820 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5821 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5822 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5823 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5824 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5825 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5829 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5832 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5833 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5835 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5836 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5837 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5838 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5839 a given package, or -i or -a.
5840 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5841 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5842 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5843 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5844 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5845 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5846 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5847 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5848 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5850 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5851 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5852 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5856 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5859 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5860 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5865 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5867 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5868 does not have a section.
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5872 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5875 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5876 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5877 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5881 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * Fixed typo #16215.
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5887 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5890 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5891 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5892 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5893 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5894 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5899 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5902 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5903 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5904 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5909 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5911 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5915 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5917 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5921 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5924 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5925 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5926 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5927 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5928 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5929 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5933 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5939 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5941 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5942 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5946 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5949 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5950 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5951 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5955 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5958 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5962 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5968 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5971 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5975 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5978 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5982 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5984 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5988 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5990 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5991 postinst, postrm, etc.
5993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5995 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5997 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6001 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6003 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6004 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6005 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6006 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6007 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6008 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6012 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6015 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6016 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6020 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6022 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6023 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6027 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6029 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6030 installing package files into.
6031 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6036 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6040 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6044 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6046 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6050 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6053 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6057 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6059 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6060 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6061 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6062 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6063 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6067 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6069 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6070 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6071 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6072 multiple binary packages.
6073 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6074 should rebuild them with this version.
6075 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6079 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6081 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6082 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6086 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6088 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6089 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6093 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6096 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6097 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6098 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6099 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6100 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6101 debian/README.debian.
6102 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6103 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6104 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6105 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6106 in a few situations.)
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6110 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6116 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6118 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6122 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6124 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6125 * Fixed several man pages.
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6129 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6131 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6132 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6133 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6137 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6139 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6140 is ready for general use.
6141 * Added man pages for all commands.
6142 * Multiple binary package support.
6143 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6144 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6145 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6147 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6148 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6149 auto-installed as parameters.
6150 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6152 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6155 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6156 the package build directory it is to act on.
6157 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6158 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6159 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6163 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6165 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6166 ready to replace debstd.
6168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400