1 debhelper (7.4.12) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
4 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
5 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
6 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:00:22 -0500
10 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
12 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
14 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
15 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
16 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
17 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
18 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
19 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
20 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
21 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
22 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
26 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
29 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
30 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
31 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
32 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
36 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Typo. Closes: #558654
39 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
40 installed. Closes: #558782
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
44 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
47 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
48 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
49 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
50 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
51 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
55 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
57 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
58 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
59 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
60 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
64 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
67 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
68 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
72 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
74 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
78 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
80 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
81 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
82 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
83 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
84 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
85 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
86 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
87 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
88 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
89 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
90 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
91 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
92 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
93 time soon.) Closes: #554509
94 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
96 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
97 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
98 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
99 document id. Closes: #555677
100 * Typo. Closes: #555659
101 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
102 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
103 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
104 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
106 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
107 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
108 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
113 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
116 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
117 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
118 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
119 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
120 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
121 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
122 translation (#494300 part 2)
125 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
127 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
128 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
129 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
130 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
131 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
135 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
138 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
139 (It was only run once due to logging.)
140 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
141 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
142 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
143 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
144 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
145 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
146 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
147 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
148 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
149 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
153 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
156 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
157 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
160 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
161 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
165 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
168 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
169 flag with arch all/any packages.
170 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
171 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
172 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
173 situation. Closes: #540794
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
177 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
181 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
182 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
183 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
184 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
185 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
188 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
189 the default. Closes: #538201
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
194 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
198 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
199 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
200 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
201 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
202 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
204 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
205 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
206 * Above Closes: #491117
207 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
212 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
215 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
218 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
219 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
220 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
224 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
227 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
228 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
229 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
230 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
231 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
236 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
239 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
240 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
244 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
246 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
250 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
252 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
253 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
255 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
256 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
257 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
261 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
263 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
264 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
268 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
274 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
276 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
277 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
278 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
283 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
285 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
289 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
292 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
293 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
294 created by using `python' first during build and install.
296 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
301 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
303 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
307 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
309 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
310 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
314 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
316 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
320 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
322 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
326 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
328 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
329 contributed by Modestas Vainius
330 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
331 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
332 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
333 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
334 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
335 that support it. Closes: #480577
336 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
337 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
338 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
340 - Adds support for cmake.
341 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
342 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
344 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
346 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
347 that use them. The options are:
348 --sourcedir, --destdir
349 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
350 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
351 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
352 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
353 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
357 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
363 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
366 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
367 default. Closes: #537140
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
371 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
374 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
375 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
379 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
382 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
386 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
389 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
393 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
396 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
398 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
399 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
400 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
404 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
407 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
408 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
409 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
413 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
416 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
417 warning or deprecation message.
418 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
419 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
420 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
421 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
422 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
423 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
424 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
425 Closes: #534639, #357434
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
429 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
435 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
438 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
439 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
440 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
441 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
443 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
444 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
445 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
449 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
455 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
462 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
465 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
469 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
473 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
474 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
476 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
477 file support. Closes: #494914
478 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
482 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
484 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
485 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
486 parameters. Closes: #527256
487 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
488 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
489 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
493 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
497 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
498 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
499 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
503 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
506 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
507 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
508 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
512 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
515 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
516 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
518 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
519 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
520 by triggers). Closes: #521181
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
524 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
528 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
532 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
535 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
536 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
537 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
538 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
543 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
549 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
552 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
553 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
554 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
555 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
556 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
558 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
559 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
560 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
561 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
562 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
563 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
567 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
570 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
571 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
572 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
573 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
574 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
576 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
580 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
582 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
586 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
588 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
589 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
590 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
591 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
592 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
593 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
594 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
595 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
596 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
597 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
598 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
602 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
604 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
605 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
607 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
608 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
609 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
610 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
612 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
613 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
617 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
619 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
620 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
621 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
622 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
623 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
624 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
625 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
627 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
628 that uses them. Affected options are:
629 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
630 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
631 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
632 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
633 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
634 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
635 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
636 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
637 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
638 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
639 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
640 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
644 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
651 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
657 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
659 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
660 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
662 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
663 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
664 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
665 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
666 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
668 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
670 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
671 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
672 rules (see bug #509756).
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
676 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
682 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
683 * Typo. Closes: #493062
684 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
685 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
689 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
692 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
693 empty files. Closes: #490937
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
697 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
703 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
710 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
713 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
714 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
715 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
716 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
721 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
723 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
724 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
725 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
726 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
730 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
733 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
734 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
735 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
736 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
737 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
741 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
748 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
750 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
751 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
752 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
753 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
754 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
755 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
756 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
757 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
758 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
759 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
763 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
766 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
767 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
768 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
769 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
771 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
772 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
773 breaking backwards compatibility.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
777 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
780 message in perl 5.10.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
784 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
790 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Convert copyright file to new format.
793 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
797 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
799 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
800 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
804 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
807 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
808 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
809 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
810 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
811 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
812 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
813 logging by dh_listpackages.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
817 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
820 run and there are no packages of that type.
821 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
822 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
823 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
824 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
826 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
827 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
831 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
833 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
834 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
835 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
839 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
842 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
843 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
845 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
846 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
847 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
848 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
849 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
850 planned but not yet implemented.)
851 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
852 if the Makefile has such a target.
853 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
854 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
855 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
856 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
857 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
858 but not yet implemented.)
859 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
860 recommended default, especially when using dh.
861 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
862 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
863 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
865 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
867 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
868 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
870 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
871 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
872 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
877 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
880 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
881 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
885 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
887 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
888 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
889 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
893 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
899 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
905 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
908 just those installed by the program.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
912 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
915 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
916 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
920 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
923 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
924 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
925 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
926 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
930 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
933 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
934 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
938 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
941 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
942 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
946 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
949 with policy. Closes: #461392
950 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
951 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
952 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
953 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
954 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
958 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
961 Closes: #460340, #460351
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
965 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
968 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
969 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
970 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
971 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
975 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
978 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
979 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
980 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
981 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
982 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
983 package build directory won't work.
984 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
985 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
986 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
987 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
988 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
989 mode. Closes: #459426
990 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
995 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
998 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1002 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1006 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1007 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1008 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1009 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1010 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1011 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1015 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1018 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1019 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1020 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1021 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1025 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1028 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1029 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1030 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1031 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1032 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1036 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1039 debian/package.triggers files.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1043 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1046 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1050 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1053 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1054 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1055 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1056 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1061 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1064 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1068 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1071 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1072 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1074 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1079 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1083 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1084 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1085 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1089 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1096 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1103 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1106 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1108 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1109 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1110 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1112 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1113 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1114 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1118 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1121 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1122 * Update urls to web page.
1123 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1124 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1125 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1126 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1130 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1133 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1134 - typo in alternatives call
1135 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1137 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1138 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1142 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1145 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1150 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1156 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1162 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1165 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1167 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1168 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1169 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1170 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1171 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1172 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1173 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1174 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1175 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1176 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1177 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1181 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1184 package install. Closes: #415717
1185 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1186 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1187 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1188 script and then remove the python files.
1189 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1190 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1191 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1192 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1193 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1194 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1195 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1196 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1197 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1198 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1199 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1200 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1201 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1205 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Correct typo in french translation
1211 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1212 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1214 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1216 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1217 Closes: #406921, #381940
1218 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1220 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1221 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1222 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1223 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1224 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1225 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1226 specified). Closes: #381851
1227 * Misc minor changes.
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1231 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1238 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1239 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1243 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1249 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1250 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1253 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1254 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1256 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1257 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1258 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1259 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1263 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1266 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1269 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1273 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1279 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1285 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1286 a difficult situation.
1287 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1288 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1289 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1290 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1291 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1292 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1293 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1294 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1295 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1296 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1300 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Non-maintainer upload.
1303 * Update of dh_python
1304 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1305 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1307 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1308 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1309 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1310 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1311 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1313 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1315 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Non-maintainer upload.
1318 * Update of dh_python
1319 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1320 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1321 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1322 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1323 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1324 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1325 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1326 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1327 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1328 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1330 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1331 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1332 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1333 the not too-distant future).
1334 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1335 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1336 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1337 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1338 thus made the build fail.
1340 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1342 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Non-maintainer upload.
1345 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1347 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1349 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1352 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1353 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1354 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1355 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1356 package. Closes: #301424
1357 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1358 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1359 fonts). Closes: #372686
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1363 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1369 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1370 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1371 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1372 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1373 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1374 above, but already depends on that.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1378 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1381 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1382 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1383 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1384 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1385 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1389 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1395 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1401 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1402 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1406 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1409 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1413 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1417 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1418 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1419 new version (0.24.1).
1420 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1421 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1424 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1425 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1426 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1427 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1428 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1429 new directory on their own.
1430 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1431 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1435 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1438 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1439 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1440 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1441 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1445 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1448 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1449 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1450 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1451 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1452 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1456 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1462 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1466 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1467 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1471 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1472 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1476 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1478 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1479 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1481 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1482 ignored. Closes: #337664
1484 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1489 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1495 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1500 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1501 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1502 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1503 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1504 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1505 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1506 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1510 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1513 version. Closes: #350607
1514 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1515 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1516 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1517 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1521 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1524 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1525 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1526 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1530 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1537 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1543 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1546 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1550 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1553 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1554 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1555 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1556 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1557 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1558 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1562 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1565 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1566 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1571 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1574 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1578 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1581 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1585 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1588 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1589 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1590 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1591 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1592 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1593 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1597 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1601 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1602 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1603 link. Closes: #346405
1604 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1606 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1607 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1608 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1609 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1610 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1611 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1612 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1616 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1623 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1629 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1632 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1636 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1639 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1644 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1648 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1649 installed. Closes: #342033
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1653 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1656 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1657 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1658 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1663 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1669 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1675 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1679 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1680 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1681 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1685 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1688 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1693 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1700 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1706 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1709 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1710 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1711 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1712 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1713 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1714 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1715 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1717 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1721 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1724 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1725 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1729 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1732 in standard man dirs.
1733 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1737 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1743 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1746 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1751 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1758 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1765 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1768 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1769 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1773 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1776 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1777 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1778 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1780 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1782 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1788 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1794 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1797 mode. Closes: #324161
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1801 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1804 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1805 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1806 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1807 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1812 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1815 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1816 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1817 is necesary for sanity.
1818 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1819 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1824 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1826 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1827 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1831 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1834 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1838 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1844 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1847 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1848 released, so use at your own risk.
1849 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1850 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1852 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1853 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1854 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1855 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1856 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1857 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1858 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1859 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1860 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1861 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1862 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1863 including twice per config file line now..
1864 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1865 and simplfy the rules file.
1866 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1867 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1868 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1870 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1871 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1875 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1878 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1882 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1885 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1889 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1892 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1896 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1899 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1900 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1901 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1902 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1903 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1904 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1908 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1911 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1912 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1913 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1918 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1921 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1922 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1927 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1930 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1931 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1932 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1937 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1940 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1941 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1942 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1946 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1952 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1959 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1962 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1963 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1964 unknown. Closes: #282924
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1968 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1975 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Spanish man page updates.
1978 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1983 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1989 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1992 * dh_desktop: reindent
1993 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1994 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2004 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2006 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2010 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2012 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2016 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2019 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2020 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2024 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2030 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2036 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2043 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2046 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2050 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2053 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2054 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2055 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2056 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2057 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2058 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2060 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2061 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2062 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2063 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2064 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2065 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2066 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2067 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2068 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2069 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2070 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2071 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2072 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2073 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2074 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2075 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2086 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2089 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2093 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2096 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2100 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2103 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2107 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2110 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2114 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2120 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2126 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2132 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2135 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2136 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2137 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2141 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2144 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2148 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2151 but occasionally right and necessary.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2155 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2158 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2159 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2160 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2161 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2162 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2166 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2169 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2171 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2172 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2173 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2174 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2175 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2176 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2177 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2178 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2179 postinst scripts for udebs.
2180 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2184 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2187 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2189 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2190 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2194 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2200 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2207 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2214 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2217 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2221 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2224 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2228 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2231 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2234 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2235 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2239 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2245 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2248 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2252 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2255 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2256 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2257 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2259 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2261 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2262 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2263 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2267 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2270 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2275 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2278 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2279 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2280 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2285 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2291 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2297 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2300 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2301 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2302 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2303 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2304 associated -dbg packages.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2308 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2311 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2315 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2318 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2322 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2325 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2329 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2332 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2337 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2340 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2344 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2347 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2352 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2355 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2359 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2363 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2364 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2365 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2366 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2367 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2368 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2369 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2370 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2371 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2372 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2376 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2379 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2384 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2387 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2388 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2392 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2395 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2396 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2401 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2404 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2408 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2411 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2418 out section number. Closes: #204731
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2422 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2429 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2441 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2444 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2445 removal. Closes: #204286
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2449 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2452 renaming. Closes: #203548
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2456 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2459 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2460 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2464 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2470 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2476 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2482 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2485 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2486 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2487 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2491 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2494 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2495 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2499 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2505 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2512 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2515 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2520 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2523 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2527 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2530 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2532 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2533 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2537 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2540 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2545 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2548 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2558 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2560 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2564 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2567 it break hard links (see #188663).
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2571 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2574 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2578 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2584 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2588 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2589 debconf-mergetemplates
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2593 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2596 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2600 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2603 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2607 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2610 * Update debhelper(1).
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2614 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2617 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2618 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2619 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2620 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2621 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2625 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2628 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2629 the shell. Closes: #178524
2630 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2634 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2637 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2641 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2644 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2648 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2651 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2652 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2653 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2654 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2659 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2662 files from installation.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2666 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2669 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2670 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2674 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2677 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2681 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2684 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2688 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2694 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2700 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2704 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2705 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2707 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2711 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2714 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2715 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2716 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2717 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2721 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2724 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2728 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2731 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2732 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2736 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2740 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2745 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2751 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2755 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2756 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2757 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2762 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2765 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2766 practice. Closes: #163303
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2770 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2776 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2783 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2786 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2788 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2789 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2790 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2791 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2792 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2796 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2799 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2804 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2810 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2817 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2820 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2825 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2831 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2837 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2843 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2850 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2853 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2854 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2855 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2856 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2861 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2867 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2874 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2877 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2878 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2882 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2885 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2886 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2887 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2888 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2889 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2893 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2896 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2898 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2903 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2906 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2910 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2913 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2914 right thing. Closes: #150644
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2918 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Stupid, evil typo.
2921 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2925 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2932 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2935 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2936 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2941 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2947 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2950 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2954 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2957 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2958 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2963 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2966 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2970 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2976 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2979 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2980 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2984 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2990 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * Removing perl warning message.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2996 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2999 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3000 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3001 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3002 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3003 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3004 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3005 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3006 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3010 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3016 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3023 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3026 debconf-mergetemplate.
3027 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3028 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3032 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3035 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3036 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3037 dh_install, which ...
3038 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3039 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3040 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3041 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3042 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3043 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3044 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3045 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3046 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3047 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3048 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3049 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3050 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3051 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3052 other minor changes.
3053 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3054 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3055 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3056 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3057 course there's -X ..)
3058 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3059 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3060 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3062 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3063 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3064 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3065 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3066 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3071 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3077 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3080 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3084 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3090 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3096 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3102 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3108 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3111 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3112 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3113 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3114 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3116 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3117 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3121 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3127 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3130 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3134 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3137 upset. Closes: #131322
3139 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3141 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3144 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3145 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3146 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3147 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3148 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3149 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3150 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3151 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3152 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3153 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3154 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3155 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3156 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3157 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3158 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3160 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3164 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3167 - Better indenting of generated code.
3168 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3172 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3176 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3177 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3178 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3179 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3180 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3181 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3182 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3186 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3189 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3193 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3196 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3197 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3198 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3199 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3200 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3201 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3202 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3203 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3204 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3205 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3206 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3207 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3208 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3209 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3210 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3215 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3221 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3224 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3225 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3229 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3232 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3233 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3237 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3243 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3246 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3247 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3248 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3249 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3250 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3255 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3261 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3264 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3268 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3271 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3276 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3282 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3285 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3289 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3295 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3299 Also some indentation fixes.
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3303 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3306 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3307 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3308 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3309 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3310 Closes: #106514, #85520
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3314 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3320 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3326 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3332 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3338 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3344 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3347 change it in debhelper v4..
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3351 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3357 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3360 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3364 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3367 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3371 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3377 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3380 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3381 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3382 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3383 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3384 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3385 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3386 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3387 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3388 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3389 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3390 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3391 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3395 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3398 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3402 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3409 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3412 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3413 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3414 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3415 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3416 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3417 program those options go to. So, for example,
3418 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3419 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3420 something complex. Closes: #89311
3421 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3425 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3428 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3429 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3430 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3434 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3437 through loop. Closes: #98598
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3441 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * Missing semi-colon.
3444 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3445 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3449 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3452 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3453 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3454 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3458 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3461 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3462 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3466 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3469 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3473 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3476 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3477 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3481 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3484 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3485 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3486 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3490 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3493 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3494 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3495 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3499 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3502 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3506 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3512 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3518 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3524 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3530 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3533 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3537 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3540 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3541 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3542 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3543 followed. Closes: #85483
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3547 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3549 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3550 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3551 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3555 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3558 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3559 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3560 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3561 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3562 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3563 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3564 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3565 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3566 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3567 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3568 Closes: #88464, #77743
3569 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3570 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3571 us to deal with that gracefully.
3572 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3574 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3575 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3576 a while, Closes: #51225
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3580 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3586 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3589 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3593 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3597 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3602 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3605 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3606 don't make packlist files.
3607 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3608 debhelper coding standards.
3609 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3610 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3614 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3617 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3621 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3624 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3625 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3626 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3627 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3628 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3629 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3630 but is mildly deprecated.
3631 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3632 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3633 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3634 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3635 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3636 switching to statoverrides..
3637 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3638 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3639 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3640 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3641 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3642 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3644 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3645 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3646 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3647 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3648 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3649 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3650 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3651 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3652 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3654 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3655 variable names, pod man pages).
3656 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3657 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3658 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3659 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3660 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3661 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3662 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3666 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3672 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3679 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3682 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3686 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3688 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3689 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3690 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3694 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3696 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3697 they were previously ignored.
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3701 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3703 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3704 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3708 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3710 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3711 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3712 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3716 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3718 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3722 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3724 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3725 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3729 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3731 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3732 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3733 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3734 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3735 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3736 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3737 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3738 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3739 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3740 it is an obsolete program.
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3744 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3746 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3750 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3754 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3756 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3760 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3762 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3764 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3766 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3776 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * typo: Closes, #78567
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3782 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3788 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3794 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3797 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3798 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3799 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3800 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3801 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3805 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3808 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3813 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3816 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3817 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3818 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3819 backwards-compatibility.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3823 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3826 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3827 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3828 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3829 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3830 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3831 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3833 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3834 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3835 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3837 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3839 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3840 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3841 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3842 should now be raised to severity important..
3843 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3844 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3848 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3851 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3856 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3862 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3868 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3874 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3881 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3884 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3885 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3886 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3887 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3891 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3897 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3900 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3901 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3902 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3903 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3904 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3905 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3910 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3913 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3917 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3923 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3926 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3931 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3934 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3935 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3936 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3937 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3941 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3945 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3948 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3951 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3952 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3955 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3957 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3958 the TODO entry about it.
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3962 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3969 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3972 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3973 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3977 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3980 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3981 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3982 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3983 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3987 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3993 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4000 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4003 (this appears to be logal).
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4007 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4010 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4011 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4012 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4013 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4017 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4023 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4026 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4027 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4028 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4029 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4033 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4039 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4042 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4046 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4053 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4056 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4057 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4058 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4063 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4070 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4076 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4079 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4080 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4081 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4082 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4083 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4084 notice until v2 is complete.
4085 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4086 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4087 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4088 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4089 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4090 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4092 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4093 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4094 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4095 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4099 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4105 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4112 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4115 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4119 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4126 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4129 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4130 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4131 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4132 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4137 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4140 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4141 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4142 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4147 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4150 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4151 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4155 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4158 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4162 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4165 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4169 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4176 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4179 depend on the build and install targets.
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4183 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4186 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4190 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4203 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4209 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4212 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4213 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4214 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4215 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4216 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4217 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4219 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4220 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4221 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4222 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4223 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4224 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4225 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4229 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4235 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4241 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4244 right place. Closes: #55065
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4248 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4255 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4258 * Copyright date updates.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4262 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4265 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4270 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4276 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4283 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4289 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4295 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4301 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4304 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4305 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4306 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4307 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4308 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4309 bits until all files have been registered.
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4313 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * dh_installmanpages:
4316 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4317 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4318 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4319 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4320 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4321 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4322 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4323 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4324 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4325 otherwise change the result at all.
4327 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4328 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4329 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4330 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4331 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4336 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4342 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4345 act on files that don't exist.
4346 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4347 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4348 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4350 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4351 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4352 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4353 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4357 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4363 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4369 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4372 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4376 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4379 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4381 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4382 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4383 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4387 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4390 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4391 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4392 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4393 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4394 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4395 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4396 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4398 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4400 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4404 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4411 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4413 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4417 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4423 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4426 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4430 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4436 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4442 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4445 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4446 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4447 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4448 I made some changes, though:
4449 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4450 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4451 that is a clear violation of policy.
4452 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4453 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4454 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4455 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4456 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4457 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4458 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4459 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4460 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4462 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4466 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4472 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4475 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4479 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4482 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4483 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4488 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4494 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4501 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4504 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4505 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4506 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4507 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4508 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4509 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4510 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4514 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4516 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4520 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4524 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4525 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4529 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4535 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4538 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4542 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4545 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4546 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4550 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4552 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4557 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4561 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4565 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4568 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4569 for the dependancies to be generated.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4573 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4576 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4583 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4584 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4585 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4590 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4593 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4594 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4598 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4610 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4613 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4617 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4623 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4626 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4627 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4628 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4629 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4630 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4631 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4632 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4633 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4634 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4635 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4636 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4637 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4641 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4644 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4645 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4647 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4648 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4649 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4650 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4651 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4652 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4654 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4655 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4659 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4662 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4666 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4673 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4676 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4681 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4684 for building debhelper.
4685 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4689 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4696 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4699 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4703 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4706 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4707 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4708 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4709 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4710 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4711 it's always available.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4715 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4718 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4719 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4720 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4724 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4727 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4728 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4732 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4738 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4741 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4745 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4751 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4754 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4755 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4756 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4760 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4763 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4768 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4771 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4772 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4774 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4775 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4779 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4785 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4791 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4794 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4798 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4801 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4802 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4804 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4808 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4811 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4812 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4813 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4817 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4820 things if CDPATH is set.
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4824 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4830 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4833 seems to make sense for the transition.
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4837 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4840 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4845 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4848 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4849 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4853 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4855 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4856 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4860 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4863 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4864 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4865 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4866 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4870 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4876 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4879 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4880 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4881 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4882 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4883 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4884 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4885 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4886 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4887 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4888 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4893 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4896 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4897 * README: mention doc/v2
4898 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4899 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4903 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4905 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4906 be using this script RSN.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4910 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4913 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4914 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4915 more than 1 init script.
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4919 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4922 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4926 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * Changed perl version detection.
4929 * Changed call to find.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4933 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4936 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4938 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4943 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * Really include dh_installpam.
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4949 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4952 * Wrote man page for same.
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4956 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4958 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4959 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4960 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4965 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4972 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4975 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4976 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4977 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4978 x bit was being set!
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4982 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4985 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4986 well. (Closes: 38900)
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4990 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4993 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4994 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4998 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5004 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5011 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5013 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5017 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5020 help from Julian Gilbey.
5021 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5022 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5023 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5024 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5025 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5026 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5027 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5032 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5038 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5045 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5051 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5057 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5060 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5064 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5067 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5071 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5074 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5078 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5084 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5086 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5087 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5091 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5097 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5103 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5106 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5107 may be deleted. (#35845)
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5111 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * Various man page enhancements.
5114 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5119 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5122 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5123 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5127 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5130 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5131 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5132 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5134 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5135 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5140 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5146 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * Another very minor typo fix.
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5152 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * Very minor typo fix.
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5158 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5161 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5162 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5166 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5172 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5174 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5175 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5176 variables properly (#34850).
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5180 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5186 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5189 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5190 (automatically generated by build process).
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5194 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5196 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5200 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5203 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5204 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5206 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5210 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5213 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5217 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * README: minor typo fix.
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5223 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5226 leave it at that. :-)
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5230 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5236 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5242 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5245 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5246 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5247 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5251 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5254 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5258 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5261 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5265 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5268 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5269 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5270 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5271 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5275 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5277 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5278 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5279 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5280 Craig Small for spotting this.
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5284 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5287 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5288 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5292 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5298 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5301 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5305 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5307 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5308 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5309 working on the last version of debhelper.
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5313 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5316 being made. (#23255)
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5320 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5326 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5329 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5333 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5335 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5336 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5337 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5338 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5339 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5343 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5346 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5347 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5348 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5349 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5351 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5352 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5354 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5359 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5365 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5371 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5374 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5375 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5376 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5377 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5378 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5379 suidregister actually supports it.
5380 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5381 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5385 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5392 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5394 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5395 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5396 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5397 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5398 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5399 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5400 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5401 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5405 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5407 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5408 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5412 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5414 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5415 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5416 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5417 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5418 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5422 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5425 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5427 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5428 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5429 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5430 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5431 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5432 effect, either. (#30118)
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5436 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5442 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5445 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5446 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5450 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5456 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5459 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5460 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5461 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5462 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5466 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5469 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5470 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5474 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5480 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5483 packages, painlessly.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5487 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5493 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5495 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5499 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5505 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5507 * The perl conversion is complete.
5509 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5511 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5512 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5513 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5518 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5520 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5521 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5522 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5523 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5527 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5530 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5532 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5534 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5535 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5539 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5542 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5543 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5547 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5553 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5556 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5557 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5558 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5559 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5560 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5564 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5567 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5568 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5569 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5570 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5574 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5577 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5581 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5584 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5585 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5586 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5587 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5588 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5589 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5590 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5591 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5595 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5601 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5604 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5605 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5606 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5611 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5614 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5618 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5621 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5625 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5628 sections of shared libraries.
5629 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5630 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5631 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5632 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5633 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5634 things you don't want them to.
5635 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5636 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5640 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5643 shared libraries. (#26414)
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5647 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5649 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5650 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5651 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5652 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5656 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5660 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5662 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5663 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5664 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5665 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5666 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5670 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5673 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5677 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5680 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5681 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5686 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5689 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5693 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5696 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5697 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5698 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5699 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5700 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5702 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5703 remove debian/files properly.
5704 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5705 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5706 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5707 * Removed bogus menu file.
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5711 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5714 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5718 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5721 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5722 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5723 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5724 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5725 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5726 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5730 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5732 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5733 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5734 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5735 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5736 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5740 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5747 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5749 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5750 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5751 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5753 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5754 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5755 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5756 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5757 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5758 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5762 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5764 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5765 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5766 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5767 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5768 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5769 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5770 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5771 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5772 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5773 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5774 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5775 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5776 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5777 passed any switches.
5778 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5782 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5784 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5785 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5786 at all for a long while.
5787 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5788 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5789 large chunks in the process.
5790 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5791 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5792 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5797 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5800 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5802 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5807 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5809 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5810 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5811 that don't always have the same files in them.
5812 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5813 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5814 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5818 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5822 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5823 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5824 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5825 updating 27 man pages.
5826 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5827 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5828 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5829 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5830 programs act on. (#25247)
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5834 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5838 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5839 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5840 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5841 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5842 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5843 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5848 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5850 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5855 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5862 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5865 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5869 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5875 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5878 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5879 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5880 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5881 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5882 package by accident.
5883 * Is version 1.0 next?
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5887 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5890 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5891 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5895 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5897 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5898 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5899 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5900 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5901 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5902 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5904 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5909 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5911 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5912 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5913 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5917 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5919 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5920 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5924 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5926 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5927 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5928 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5933 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5939 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5941 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5942 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5943 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5948 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5954 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5956 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5957 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5958 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5959 past week. Thanks, guys!
5961 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5962 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5963 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5964 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5965 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5966 would do in the same situation.
5967 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5968 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5970 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5972 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5973 permissions changed.
5974 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5975 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5976 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5977 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5978 files are treated identically.
5979 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5980 * Minor man page fixes.
5981 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5982 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5983 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5987 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5989 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5990 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5991 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5992 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5993 use -X multiple times, too.
5994 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5995 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5999 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6002 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6003 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6007 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6009 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6010 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6014 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6017 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6018 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6019 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6020 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6021 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6022 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6023 shape if you're starting a new package.
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6027 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6029 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6030 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6034 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6037 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6038 because of missing symlinks.
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6042 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6048 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6051 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6052 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6053 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6054 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6055 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6057 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6058 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6062 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6064 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6065 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6066 to be changed after the fact :-)
6067 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6071 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6073 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6074 no version string after the -V.
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6078 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6080 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6081 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6086 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6088 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6089 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6093 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6096 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6097 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6098 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6099 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6100 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6101 I always welcome corrections!
6103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6105 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6107 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6111 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6113 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6114 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6115 * Documented this new switch.
6117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6119 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6121 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6122 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6123 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6124 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6125 no packages use the old behavior.
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6129 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6131 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6132 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6133 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6137 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6139 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6140 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6144 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6146 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6150 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6153 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6157 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6159 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6160 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6161 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6162 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6166 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6172 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6174 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6175 into the source package by accident.
6177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6179 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6181 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6182 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6183 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6184 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6185 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6186 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6187 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6192 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6194 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6196 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6197 inspired to implement some of it.
6198 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6202 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6204 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6205 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6209 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6211 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6212 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6213 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6217 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6220 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6221 have done.) (#17598)
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6225 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6231 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6233 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6237 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6239 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6240 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6244 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6246 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6247 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6248 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6252 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6254 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6255 argument processor in perl.
6256 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6257 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6258 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6259 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6263 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6265 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6266 type directories. (#16933)
6267 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6268 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6269 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6270 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6271 are supported. (#16935)
6272 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6277 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6279 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6280 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6284 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6286 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6288 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6289 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6290 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6291 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6292 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6293 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6297 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6299 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6300 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6301 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6303 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6304 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6305 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6306 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6307 a given package, or -i or -a.
6308 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6309 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6310 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6311 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6312 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6313 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6314 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6315 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6316 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6318 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6319 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6320 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6324 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6327 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6328 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6333 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6335 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6336 does not have a section.
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6340 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6342 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6343 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6344 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6345 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6349 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6351 * Fixed typo #16215.
6353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6355 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6357 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6358 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6359 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6360 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6361 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6362 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6367 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6369 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6370 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6371 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6372 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6377 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6379 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6383 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6385 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6389 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6391 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6392 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6393 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6394 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6395 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6396 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6397 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6401 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6403 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6407 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6409 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6410 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6414 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6416 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6417 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6418 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6419 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6423 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6425 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6426 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6430 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6432 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6436 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6438 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6439 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6443 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6445 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6446 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6450 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6452 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6456 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6458 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6459 postinst, postrm, etc.
6461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6463 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6465 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6469 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6471 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6472 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6473 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6474 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6475 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6476 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6480 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6482 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6483 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6484 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6488 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6490 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6491 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6495 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6497 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6498 installing package files into.
6499 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6504 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6506 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6508 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6512 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6514 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6518 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6520 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6521 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6525 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6527 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6528 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6529 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6530 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6531 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6535 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6537 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6538 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6539 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6540 multiple binary packages.
6541 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6542 should rebuild them with this version.
6543 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6547 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6549 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6550 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6554 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6556 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6557 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6561 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6563 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6564 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6565 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6566 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6567 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6568 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6569 debian/README.debian.
6570 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6571 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6572 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6573 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6574 in a few situations.)
6576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6578 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6580 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6584 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6586 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6590 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6592 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6593 * Fixed several man pages.
6595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6597 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6599 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6600 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6601 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6605 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6607 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6608 is ready for general use.
6609 * Added man pages for all commands.
6610 * Multiple binary package support.
6611 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6612 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6613 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6615 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6616 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6617 auto-installed as parameters.
6618 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6620 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6623 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6624 the package build directory it is to act on.
6625 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6626 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6627 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6631 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6633 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6634 ready to replace debstd.
6636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400