1 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
3 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
7 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
9 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
13 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
15 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
16 contributed by Modestas Vainius
17 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
18 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
19 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
20 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
21 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
22 that support it. Closes: #480577
23 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
24 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
25 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
27 - Adds support for cmake.
28 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
29 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
31 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
33 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
34 that use them. The options are:
35 --sourcedir, --destdir
36 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
37 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
38 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
39 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
40 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
44 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
47 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
51 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
54 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
58 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
61 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
63 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
64 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
65 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
69 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
72 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
73 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
74 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
78 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
81 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
82 warning or deprecation message.
83 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
84 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
85 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
86 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
87 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
88 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
89 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
90 Closes: #534639, #357434
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
94 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
96 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
100 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
103 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
104 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
105 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
106 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
108 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
109 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
110 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
114 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
120 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
127 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
130 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
134 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
136 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
138 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
139 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
141 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
142 file support. Closes: #494914
143 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
147 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
150 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
151 parameters. Closes: #527256
152 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
153 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
154 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
158 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
160 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
162 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
163 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
164 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
168 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
171 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
172 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
173 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
177 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
180 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
181 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
183 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
184 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
185 by triggers). Closes: #521181
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
189 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
193 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
197 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
200 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
201 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
202 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
203 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
208 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
214 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
217 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
218 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
219 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
220 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
221 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
223 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
224 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
225 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
226 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
227 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
228 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
232 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
235 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
236 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
237 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
238 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
239 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
241 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
245 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
247 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
251 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
253 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
254 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
255 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
256 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
257 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
258 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
259 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
260 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
261 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
262 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
263 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
267 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
269 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
270 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
272 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
273 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
274 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
275 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
277 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
278 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
282 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
284 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
285 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
286 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
287 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
288 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
289 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
290 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
292 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
293 that uses them. Affected options are:
294 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
295 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
296 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
297 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
298 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
299 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
300 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
301 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
302 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
303 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
304 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
305 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
309 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
316 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
322 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
324 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
325 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
327 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
328 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
329 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
330 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
331 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
333 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
335 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
336 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
337 rules (see bug #509756).
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
341 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
347 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
348 * Typo. Closes: #493062
349 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
350 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
354 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
357 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
358 empty files. Closes: #490937
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
362 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
368 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
375 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
377 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
378 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
379 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
380 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
381 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
386 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
388 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
389 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
390 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
391 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
395 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
398 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
399 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
400 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
401 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
402 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
406 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
413 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
415 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
416 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
417 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
418 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
419 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
420 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
421 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
422 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
423 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
424 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
428 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
431 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
432 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
433 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
434 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
436 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
437 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
438 breaking backwards compatability.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
442 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
445 message in perl 5.10.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
449 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
455 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
457 * Convert copyright file to new format.
458 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
462 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
465 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
469 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
472 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
473 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
474 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
475 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
476 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
477 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
478 logging by dh_listpackages.
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
482 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
485 run and there are no packages of that type.
486 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
487 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
488 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
489 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
491 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
492 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
496 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
498 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
499 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
500 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
504 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
507 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
508 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
510 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
511 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
512 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
513 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
514 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
515 planned but not yet implemented.)
516 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
517 if the Makefile has such a target.
518 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
519 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
520 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
521 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
522 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
523 but not yet implemented.)
524 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
525 recommended default, especially when using dh.
526 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
527 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
528 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
530 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
532 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
533 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
535 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
536 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
537 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
542 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
545 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
546 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
550 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
552 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
553 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
554 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
558 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
564 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
570 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
573 just those installed by the program.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
577 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
580 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
581 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
585 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
588 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
589 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
590 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
591 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
595 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
598 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
599 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
603 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
606 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
607 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
611 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
614 with policy. Closes: #461392
615 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
616 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
617 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
618 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
619 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
623 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
626 Closes: #460340, #460351
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
630 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
633 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
634 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
635 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
636 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
640 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
643 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
644 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
645 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
646 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
647 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
648 package build directory won't work.
649 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
650 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
651 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
652 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
653 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
654 mode. Closes: #459426
655 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
660 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
663 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
667 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
671 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
672 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
673 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
674 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
675 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
676 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
680 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
683 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
684 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
685 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
686 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
690 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
693 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
694 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
695 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
696 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
697 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
701 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
704 debian/package.triggers files.
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
708 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
710 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
711 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
715 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
718 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
719 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
720 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
721 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
726 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
729 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
733 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
736 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
737 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
739 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
744 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
746 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
748 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
749 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
750 * Typo. Closes: #441272
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
754 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
761 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
768 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
771 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
773 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
774 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
775 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
777 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
778 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
779 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
783 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
786 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
787 * Update urls to web page.
788 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
790 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
791 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
795 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
798 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
799 - typo in alternatives call
800 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
802 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
803 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
807 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
810 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
815 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
821 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
827 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
830 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
832 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
833 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
834 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
835 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
836 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
837 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
838 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
839 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
840 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
841 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
842 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
846 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
849 package install. Closes: #415717
850 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
851 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
852 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
853 script and then remove the python files.
854 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
855 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
856 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
857 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
858 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
859 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
860 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
861 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
862 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
863 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
864 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
865 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
866 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
870 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Correct typo in french translation
876 * Typo. Closes: #400571
877 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
879 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
881 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
882 Closes: #406921, #381940
883 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
885 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
886 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
887 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
888 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
889 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
890 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
891 specified). Closes: #381851
892 * Misc minor changes.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
896 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
903 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
904 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
908 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
914 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
915 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
918 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
919 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
921 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
922 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
923 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
924 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
928 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
931 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
934 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
938 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
944 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
947 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
950 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
951 a difficult situation.
952 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
953 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
954 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
955 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
956 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
957 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
958 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
959 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
960 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
961 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
965 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Non-maintainer upload.
968 * Update of dh_python
969 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
970 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
972 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
973 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
974 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
975 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
976 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
978 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
980 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Non-maintainer upload.
983 * Update of dh_python
984 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
985 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
986 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
987 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
988 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
989 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
990 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
991 specific python version. Closes: #373853
992 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
993 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
995 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
996 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
997 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
998 the not too-distant future).
999 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1000 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1001 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1002 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1003 thus made the build fail.
1005 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1007 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Non-maintainer upload.
1010 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1012 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1014 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1017 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1018 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1019 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1020 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1021 package. Closes: #301424
1022 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1023 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1024 fonts). Closes: #372686
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1028 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1034 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1035 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1036 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1037 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1038 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1039 above, but already depends on that.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1043 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1046 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1047 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1048 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1049 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1050 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1054 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1060 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1066 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1067 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1071 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1074 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1078 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1082 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1083 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1084 new version (0.24.1).
1085 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1086 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1089 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1090 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1091 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1092 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1093 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1094 new directory on their own.
1095 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1096 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1100 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1103 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1104 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1105 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1106 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1110 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1113 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1114 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1115 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1116 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1117 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1121 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1127 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1131 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1132 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1136 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1137 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1141 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1143 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1144 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1146 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1147 ignored. Closes: #337664
1149 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1154 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1160 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1165 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1166 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1167 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1168 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1169 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1170 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1171 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1175 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1178 version. Closes: #350607
1179 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1180 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1181 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1182 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1186 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1189 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1190 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1191 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1195 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1202 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1208 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1211 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1215 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1218 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1219 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1220 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1221 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1222 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1223 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1227 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1230 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1231 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1236 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1239 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1243 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1246 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1250 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1253 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1254 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1255 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1256 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1257 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1258 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1262 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1266 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1267 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1268 link. Closes: #346405
1269 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1271 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1272 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1273 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1274 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1275 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1276 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1277 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1281 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1288 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1294 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1297 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1301 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1304 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1309 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1313 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1314 installed. Closes: #342033
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1318 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1321 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1322 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1323 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1328 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1334 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1340 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1344 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1345 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1346 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1350 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1353 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1358 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1365 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1371 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1374 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1375 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1376 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1377 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1378 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1379 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1380 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1382 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1386 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1389 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1390 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1394 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1397 in standard man dirs.
1398 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1402 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1408 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1411 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1416 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1423 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1430 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1433 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1434 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1438 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1441 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1442 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1443 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1445 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1447 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1453 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1459 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1462 mode. Closes: #324161
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1466 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1469 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1470 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1471 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1472 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1477 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1480 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1481 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1482 is necesary for sanity.
1483 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1484 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1489 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1491 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1492 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1496 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1499 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1503 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1509 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1512 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1513 released, so use at your own risk.
1514 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1515 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1517 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1518 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1519 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1520 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1521 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1522 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1523 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1524 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1525 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1526 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1527 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1528 including twice per config file line now..
1529 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1530 and simplfy the rules file.
1531 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1532 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1533 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1535 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1536 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1540 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1543 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1547 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1550 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1554 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1557 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1561 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1564 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1565 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1566 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1567 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1568 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1569 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1573 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1576 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1577 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1578 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1583 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1586 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1587 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1592 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1595 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1596 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1597 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1602 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1605 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1606 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1607 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1611 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1617 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1624 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1627 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1628 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1629 unknown. Closes: #282924
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1633 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1640 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Spanish man page updates.
1643 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1648 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1654 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1657 * dh_desktop: reindent
1658 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1659 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1663 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1669 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1671 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1675 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1677 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1681 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1684 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1685 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1689 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1695 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1701 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1708 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1711 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1715 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1718 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1719 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1720 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1721 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1722 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1723 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1725 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1726 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1727 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1728 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1729 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1730 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1731 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1732 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1733 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1734 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1735 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1736 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1737 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1738 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1739 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1740 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1744 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1751 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1754 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1758 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1761 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1765 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1768 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1772 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1775 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1779 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1785 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1791 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1797 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1800 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1801 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1802 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1806 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1809 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1813 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1816 but occasionally right and necessary.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1820 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1823 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1824 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1825 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1826 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1827 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1831 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1834 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1836 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1837 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1838 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1839 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1840 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1841 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1842 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1843 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1844 postinst scripts for udebs.
1845 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1849 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1852 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1854 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1855 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1859 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1865 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1872 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1879 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1882 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1886 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1889 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1893 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1896 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1899 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1900 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1904 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1910 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1913 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1917 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1920 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1921 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1922 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1924 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1926 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1927 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1928 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1932 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1935 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1940 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1943 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1944 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1945 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1950 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1956 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1962 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1965 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1966 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1967 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1968 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1969 associated -dbg packages.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1973 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1976 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1980 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1983 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1990 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1994 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1997 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2002 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2005 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2009 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2012 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2017 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2020 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2024 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2028 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2029 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2030 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2031 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2032 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2033 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2034 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2035 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2036 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2037 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2041 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2044 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2049 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2052 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2053 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2057 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2060 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2061 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2066 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2069 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2073 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2076 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2080 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2083 out section number. Closes: #204731
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2100 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2106 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2109 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2110 removal. Closes: #204286
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2114 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2117 renaming. Closes: #203548
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2121 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2124 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2125 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2129 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2135 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2141 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2147 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2150 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2151 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2152 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2156 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2159 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2160 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2164 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2170 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2177 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2180 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2185 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2188 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2192 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2195 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2197 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2198 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2202 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2205 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2210 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2213 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2217 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2223 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2225 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2229 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2232 it break hard links (see #188663).
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2236 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2239 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2243 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2249 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2253 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2254 debconf-mergetemplates
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2258 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2261 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2265 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2268 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2272 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2275 * Update debhelper(1).
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2279 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2282 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2283 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2284 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2285 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2286 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2290 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2293 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2294 the shell. Closes: #178524
2295 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2299 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2302 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2306 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2309 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2313 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2316 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2317 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2318 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2319 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2324 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2327 files from installation.
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2331 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2334 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2335 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2339 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2342 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2346 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2349 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2353 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2359 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2365 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2369 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2370 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2372 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2376 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2379 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2380 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2381 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2382 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2386 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2389 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2393 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2396 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2397 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2401 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2405 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2410 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2416 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2420 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2421 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2422 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2427 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2430 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2431 practice. Closes: #163303
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2441 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2448 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2451 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2453 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2454 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2455 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2456 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2457 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2461 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2464 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2469 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2475 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2482 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2485 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2490 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2496 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2508 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2515 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2518 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2519 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2520 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2521 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2532 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2539 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2542 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2543 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2547 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2550 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2551 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2552 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2553 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2554 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2558 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2561 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2563 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2568 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2571 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2575 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2578 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2579 right thing. Closes: #150644
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2583 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Stupid, evil typo.
2586 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2590 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2597 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2600 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2601 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2606 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2612 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2615 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2619 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2622 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2623 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2628 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2631 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2635 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2641 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2644 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2645 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2649 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2655 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Removing perl warning message.
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2661 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2664 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2665 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2666 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2667 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2668 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2669 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2670 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2671 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2675 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2681 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2688 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2691 debconf-mergetemplate.
2692 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2693 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2697 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2700 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2701 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2702 dh_install, which ...
2703 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2704 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2705 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2706 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2707 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2708 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2709 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2710 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2711 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2712 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2713 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2714 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2715 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2716 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2717 other minor changes.
2718 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2719 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2720 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2721 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2722 course there's -X ..)
2723 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2724 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2725 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2727 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2728 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2729 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2730 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2731 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2736 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2742 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2745 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2749 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2755 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2761 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2767 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2773 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2776 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2777 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2778 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2779 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2781 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2782 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2786 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2792 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2795 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2799 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2802 upset. Closes: #131322
2804 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2806 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2809 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2810 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2811 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2812 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2813 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2814 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2815 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2816 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2817 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2818 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2819 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2820 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2821 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2822 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2823 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2825 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2829 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2832 - Better indenting of generated code.
2833 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2837 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2841 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2842 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2843 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2844 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2845 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2846 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2847 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2851 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2854 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2858 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2861 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2862 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2863 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2864 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2865 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2866 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2867 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2868 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2869 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2870 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2871 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2872 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2873 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2874 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2875 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2880 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2886 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2889 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2890 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2894 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2897 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2898 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2902 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2908 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2911 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2912 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2913 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2914 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2915 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2920 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2926 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2929 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2933 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2936 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2941 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2947 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2950 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2954 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2960 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2964 Also some indentation fixes.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2968 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2971 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2972 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2973 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2974 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2975 Closes: #106514, #85520
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2979 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2985 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2991 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2997 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3003 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3009 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3012 change it in debhelper v4..
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3016 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3022 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3025 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3029 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3032 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3036 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3042 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3045 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3046 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3047 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3048 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3049 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3050 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3051 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3052 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3053 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3054 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3055 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3056 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3060 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3063 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3067 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3074 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3077 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3078 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3079 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3080 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3081 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3082 program those options go to. So, for example,
3083 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3084 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3085 something complex. Closes: #89311
3086 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3090 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3093 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3094 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3095 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3099 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3102 through loop. Closes: #98598
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3106 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Missing semi-colon.
3109 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3110 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3114 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3117 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3118 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3119 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3123 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3126 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3127 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3131 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3134 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3138 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3141 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3142 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3146 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3149 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3150 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3151 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3155 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3158 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3159 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3160 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3164 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3167 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3171 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3177 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3183 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3189 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3195 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3198 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3202 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3205 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3206 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3207 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3208 followed. Closes: #85483
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3212 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3214 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3215 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3216 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3220 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3223 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3224 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3225 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3226 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3227 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3228 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3229 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3230 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3231 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3232 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3233 Closes: #88464, #77743
3234 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3235 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3236 us to deal with that gracefully.
3237 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3239 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3240 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3241 a while, Closes: #51225
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3245 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3251 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3254 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3258 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3262 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3267 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3270 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3271 don't make packlist files.
3272 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3273 debhelper coding standards.
3274 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3275 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3279 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3282 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3286 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3289 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3290 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3291 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3292 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3293 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3294 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3295 but is mildly deprecated.
3296 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3297 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3298 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3299 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3300 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3301 switching to statoverrides..
3302 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3303 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3304 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3305 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3306 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3307 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3309 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3310 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3311 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3312 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3313 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3314 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3315 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3316 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3317 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3319 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3320 variable names, pod man pages).
3321 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3322 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3323 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3324 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3325 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3326 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3327 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3331 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3337 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3344 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3347 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3351 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3353 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3354 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3355 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3359 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3361 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3362 they were previously ignored.
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3366 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3368 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3369 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3373 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3375 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3376 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3377 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3381 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3383 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3387 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3389 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3390 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3394 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3396 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3397 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3398 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3399 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3400 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3401 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3402 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3403 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3404 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3405 it is an obsolete program.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3409 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3411 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3415 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3419 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3421 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3425 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3427 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3429 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3431 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3435 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3441 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * typo: Closes, #78567
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3447 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3453 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3459 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3462 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3463 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3464 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3465 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3466 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3470 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3473 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3478 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3481 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3482 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3483 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3484 backwards-compatability.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3488 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3491 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3492 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3493 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3494 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3495 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3496 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3498 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3499 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3500 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3502 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3504 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3505 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3506 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3507 should now be raised to severity important..
3508 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3509 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3513 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3516 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3521 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3527 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3533 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3539 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3546 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3549 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3550 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3551 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3552 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3556 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3562 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3565 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3566 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3567 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3568 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3569 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3570 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3575 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3578 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3582 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3588 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3591 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3596 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3599 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3600 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3601 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3602 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3606 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3610 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3613 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3616 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3617 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3620 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3622 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3623 the TODO entry about it.
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3627 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3634 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3637 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3638 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3642 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3645 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3646 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3647 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3648 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3652 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3658 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3665 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3668 (this appears to be logal).
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3672 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3675 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3676 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3677 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3678 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3682 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3688 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3691 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3692 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3693 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3694 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3698 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3704 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3707 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3711 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3718 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3721 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3722 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3723 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3728 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3735 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3741 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3744 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3745 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3746 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3747 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3748 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3749 notice until v2 is complete.
3750 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3751 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3752 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3753 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3754 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3755 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3757 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3758 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3759 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3760 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3764 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3770 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3777 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3780 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3784 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3791 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3794 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3795 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3796 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3797 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3802 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3805 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3806 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3807 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3812 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3815 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3816 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3820 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3823 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3827 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3830 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3834 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3841 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3844 depend on the build and install targets.
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3848 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3851 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3855 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3862 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3868 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3874 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3877 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3878 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3879 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3880 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3881 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3882 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3884 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3885 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3886 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3887 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3888 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3889 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3890 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3894 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3900 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3906 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3909 right place. Closes: #55065
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3913 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3920 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3923 * Copyright date updates.
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3927 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3930 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3935 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3941 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3948 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3954 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3960 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3966 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3969 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3970 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3971 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3972 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3973 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3974 bits until all files have been registered.
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3978 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * dh_installmanpages:
3981 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3982 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3983 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3984 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3985 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3986 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3987 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3988 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3989 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3990 otherwise change the result at all.
3992 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3993 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3994 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3995 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3996 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4001 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4007 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4010 act on files that don't exist.
4011 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4012 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4013 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4015 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4016 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4017 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4018 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4022 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4028 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4034 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4037 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4041 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4044 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4046 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4047 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4048 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4052 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4055 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4056 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4057 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4058 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4059 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4060 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4061 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4063 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4065 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4069 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4076 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4082 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4088 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4091 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4095 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4101 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4107 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4110 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4111 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4112 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4113 I made some changes, though:
4114 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4115 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4116 that is a clear violation of policy.
4117 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4118 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4119 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4120 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4121 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4122 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4123 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4124 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4125 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4127 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4131 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4137 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4140 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4144 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4147 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4148 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4159 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4166 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4169 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4170 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4171 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4172 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4173 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4174 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4175 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4179 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4185 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4189 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4190 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4194 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4200 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4203 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4207 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4210 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4211 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4215 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4217 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4222 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4226 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4230 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4233 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4234 for the dependancies to be generated.
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4238 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4241 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4245 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4248 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4249 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4250 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4255 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4258 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4259 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4263 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4269 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4275 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4278 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4282 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4288 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4291 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4292 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4293 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4294 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4295 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4296 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4297 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4298 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4299 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4300 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4301 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4302 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4306 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4309 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4310 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4312 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4313 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4314 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4315 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4316 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4317 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4319 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4320 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4324 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4327 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4331 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4338 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4340 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4341 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4346 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4349 for building debhelper.
4350 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4361 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4364 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4368 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4371 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4372 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4373 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4374 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4375 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4376 it's always available.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4380 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4383 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4384 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4385 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4389 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4392 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4393 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4397 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4403 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4406 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4410 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4416 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4419 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4420 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4421 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4425 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4428 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4433 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4436 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4437 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4439 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4440 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4444 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4450 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4456 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4459 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4463 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4466 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4467 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4469 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4473 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4476 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4477 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4478 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4482 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4485 things if CDPATH is set.
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4489 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4495 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4498 seems to make sense for the transition.
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4502 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4505 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4510 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4513 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4514 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4518 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4521 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4525 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4528 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4529 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4530 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4531 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4535 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4541 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4544 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4545 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4546 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4547 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4548 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4549 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4550 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4551 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4552 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4553 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4558 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4561 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4562 * README: mention doc/v2
4563 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4564 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4568 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4570 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4571 be using this script RSN.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4575 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4578 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4579 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4580 more than 1 init script.
4582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4584 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4586 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4587 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4591 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * Changed perl version detection.
4594 * Changed call to find.
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4598 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4601 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4603 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4608 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * Really include dh_installpam.
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4614 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4617 * Wrote man page for same.
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4621 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4624 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4625 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4630 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4637 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4640 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4641 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4642 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4643 x bit was being set!
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4647 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4650 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4651 well. (Closes: 38900)
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4655 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4658 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4659 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4663 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4669 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4676 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4682 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4685 help from Julian Gilbey.
4686 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4687 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4688 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4689 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4690 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4691 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4692 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4697 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4703 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4710 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4716 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4722 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4725 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4729 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4732 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4736 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4739 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4743 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4749 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4752 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4756 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4762 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4768 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4771 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4772 may be deleted. (#35845)
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4776 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * Various man page enhancements.
4779 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4784 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4787 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4788 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4792 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4795 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4796 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4797 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4799 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4800 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4805 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4811 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * Another very minor typo fix.
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4817 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * Very minor typo fix.
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4823 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4826 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4827 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4831 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4837 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4840 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4841 variables properly (#34850).
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4845 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4851 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4854 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4855 (automatically generated by build process).
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4859 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4861 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4865 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4868 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4869 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4871 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4875 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4878 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4882 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * README: minor typo fix.
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4888 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4891 leave it at that. :-)
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4895 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4901 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4907 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4910 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4911 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4912 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4916 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4919 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4923 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4926 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4930 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4933 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4934 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4935 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4936 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4940 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4943 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4944 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4945 Craig Small for spotting this.
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4949 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4952 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4953 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4957 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4963 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4966 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4970 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4972 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4973 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4974 working on the last version of debhelper.
4976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4978 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4980 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4981 being made. (#23255)
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4985 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4991 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4994 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4998 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5001 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5002 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5003 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5004 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5008 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5011 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5012 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5013 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5014 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5016 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5017 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5019 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5024 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5030 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5036 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5039 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5040 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5041 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5042 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5043 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5044 suidregister actually supports it.
5045 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5046 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5050 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5057 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5060 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5061 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5062 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5063 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5064 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5065 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5066 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5070 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5072 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5073 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5077 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5080 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5081 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5082 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5083 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5087 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5090 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5092 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5093 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5094 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5095 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5096 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5097 effect, either. (#30118)
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5101 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5107 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5110 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5111 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5115 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5121 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5124 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5125 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5126 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5127 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5131 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5134 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5135 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5139 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5145 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5148 packages, painlessly.
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5152 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5158 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5164 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5170 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * The perl conversion is complete.
5174 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5176 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5177 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5178 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5183 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5186 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5187 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5188 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5192 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5195 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5197 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5199 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5200 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5204 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5207 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5208 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5212 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5218 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5221 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5222 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5223 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5224 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5225 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5229 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5232 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5233 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5234 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5235 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5239 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5242 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5246 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5248 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5249 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5250 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5251 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5252 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5253 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5254 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5255 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5256 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5260 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5266 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5269 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5270 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5271 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5276 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5279 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5283 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5286 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5290 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5293 sections of shared libraries.
5294 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5295 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5296 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5297 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5298 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5299 things you don't want them to.
5300 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5301 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5305 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5308 shared libraries. (#26414)
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5312 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5314 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5315 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5316 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5317 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5321 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5325 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5327 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5328 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5329 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5330 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5331 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5335 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5338 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5342 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5345 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5346 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5351 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5354 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5358 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5361 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5362 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5363 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5364 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5365 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5367 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5368 remove debian/files properly.
5369 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5370 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5371 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5372 * Removed bogus menu file.
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5376 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5379 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5383 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5385 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5386 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5387 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5388 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5389 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5390 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5391 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5395 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5398 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5399 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5400 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5401 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5405 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5412 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5414 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5415 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5416 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5418 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5419 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5420 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5421 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5422 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5423 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5427 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5430 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5431 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5432 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5433 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5434 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5435 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5436 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5437 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5438 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5439 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5440 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5441 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5442 passed any switches.
5443 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5447 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5450 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5451 at all for a long while.
5452 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5453 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5454 large chunks in the process.
5455 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5456 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5457 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5462 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5465 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5467 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5472 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5475 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5476 that don't always have the same files in them.
5477 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5478 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5479 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5483 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5487 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5488 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5489 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5490 updating 27 man pages.
5491 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5492 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5493 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5494 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5495 programs act on. (#25247)
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5499 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5503 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5504 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5505 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5506 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5507 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5508 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5513 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5520 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5527 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5530 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5534 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5540 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5543 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5544 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5545 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5546 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5547 package by accident.
5548 * Is version 1.0 next?
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5552 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5555 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5556 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5560 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5563 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5564 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5565 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5566 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5567 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5569 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5574 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5577 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5578 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5582 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5584 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5585 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5589 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5592 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5593 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5598 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5604 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5607 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5608 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5613 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5619 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5622 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5623 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5624 past week. Thanks, guys!
5626 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5627 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5628 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5629 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5630 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5631 would do in the same situation.
5632 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5633 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5635 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5637 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5638 permissions changed.
5639 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5640 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5641 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5642 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5643 files are treated identically.
5644 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5645 * Minor man page fixes.
5646 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5647 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5648 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5652 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5655 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5656 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5657 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5658 use -X multiple times, too.
5659 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5660 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5664 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5667 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5668 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5672 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5674 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5675 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5679 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5682 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5683 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5684 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5685 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5686 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5687 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5688 shape if you're starting a new package.
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5692 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5695 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5699 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5702 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5703 because of missing symlinks.
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5707 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5713 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5716 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5717 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5718 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5719 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5720 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5722 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5723 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5727 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5729 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5730 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5731 to be changed after the fact :-)
5732 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5736 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5738 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5739 no version string after the -V.
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5743 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5745 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5746 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5751 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5754 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5758 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5761 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5762 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5763 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5764 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5765 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5766 I always welcome corrections!
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5770 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5776 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5779 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5780 * Documented this new switch.
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5784 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5787 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5788 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5789 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5790 no packages use the old behavior.
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5794 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5797 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5798 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5802 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5805 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5809 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5815 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5817 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5818 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5822 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5824 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5825 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5826 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5827 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5831 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5837 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5840 into the source package by accident.
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5844 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5847 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5848 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5849 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5850 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5851 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5852 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5857 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5861 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5862 inspired to implement some of it.
5863 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5867 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5870 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5874 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5877 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5878 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5882 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5885 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5886 have done.) (#17598)
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5890 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5896 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5902 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5905 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5909 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5911 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5912 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5913 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5917 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5919 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5920 argument processor in perl.
5921 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5922 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5923 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5924 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5928 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5930 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5931 type directories. (#16933)
5932 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5933 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5934 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5935 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5936 are supported. (#16935)
5937 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5942 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5944 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5945 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5949 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5953 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5954 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5955 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5956 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5957 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5958 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5962 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5965 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5966 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5968 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5969 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5970 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5971 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5972 a given package, or -i or -a.
5973 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5974 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5975 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5976 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5977 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5978 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5979 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5980 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5981 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5983 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5984 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5985 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5989 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5992 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5993 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5998 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6001 does not have a section.
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6005 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6008 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6009 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6010 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6014 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * Fixed typo #16215.
6018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6020 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6022 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6023 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6024 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6025 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6026 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6027 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6032 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6034 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6035 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6036 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6037 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6042 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6048 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6054 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6057 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6058 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6059 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6060 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6061 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6062 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6066 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6068 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6072 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6074 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6075 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6079 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6081 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6082 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6083 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6084 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6088 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6091 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6095 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6097 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6101 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6103 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6104 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6108 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6110 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6111 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6115 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6117 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6121 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6123 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6124 postinst, postrm, etc.
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6128 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6134 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6137 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6138 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6139 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6140 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6141 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6145 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6147 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6148 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6149 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6153 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6155 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6156 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6160 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6162 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6163 installing package files into.
6164 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6169 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6171 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6173 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6177 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6179 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6183 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6185 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6186 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6190 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6192 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6193 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6194 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6195 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6196 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6200 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6202 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6203 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6204 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6205 multiple binary packages.
6206 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6207 should rebuild them with this version.
6208 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6212 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6214 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6215 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6219 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6221 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6222 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6226 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6228 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6229 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6230 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6231 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6232 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6233 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6234 debian/README.debian.
6235 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6236 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6237 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6238 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6239 in a few situations.)
6241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6243 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6245 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6249 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6251 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6255 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6257 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6258 * Fixed several man pages.
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6262 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6264 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6265 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6266 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6270 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6272 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6273 is ready for general use.
6274 * Added man pages for all commands.
6275 * Multiple binary package support.
6276 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6277 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6278 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6280 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6281 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6282 auto-installed as parameters.
6283 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6285 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6288 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6289 the package build directory it is to act on.
6290 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6291 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6292 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6296 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6298 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6299 ready to replace debstd.
6301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400