1 debhelper (7.4.20) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 09 May 2010 11:44:58 -0400
8 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
11 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
12 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
16 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
19 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
23 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
26 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
27 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
31 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
33 * Updated French translation.
34 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
35 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
36 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
37 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
39 * Typo. Closes: #571968
40 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
41 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
42 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
43 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
44 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
45 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
46 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
47 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
48 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
50 * dh: Improve documentation.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
54 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
56 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
57 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
58 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
62 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
65 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
69 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
72 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
76 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
79 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
80 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
81 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
82 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
83 options that they do not support.
84 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
85 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
86 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
87 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
88 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
89 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
94 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
96 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
98 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
99 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
100 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
101 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
102 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
103 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
104 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
105 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
106 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
110 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
113 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
114 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
115 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
116 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
120 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Typo. Closes: #558654
123 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
124 installed. Closes: #558782
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
128 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
131 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
132 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
133 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
134 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
135 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
139 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
141 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
142 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
143 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
144 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
148 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
150 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
151 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
152 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
156 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
158 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
162 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
164 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
165 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
166 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
167 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
168 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
169 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
170 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
171 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
172 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
173 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
174 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
175 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
176 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
177 time soon.) Closes: #554509
178 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
180 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
181 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
182 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
183 document id. Closes: #555677
184 * Typo. Closes: #555659
185 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
186 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
187 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
188 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
190 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
191 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
192 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
197 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
200 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
201 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
202 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
203 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
204 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
205 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
206 translation (#494300 part 2)
209 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
211 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
212 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
213 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
214 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
215 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
219 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
222 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
223 (It was only run once due to logging.)
224 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
225 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
226 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
227 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
228 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
229 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
230 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
231 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
232 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
233 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
237 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
241 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
244 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
245 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
249 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
251 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
252 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
253 flag with arch all/any packages.
254 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
255 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
256 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
257 situation. Closes: #540794
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
261 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
265 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
266 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
267 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
268 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
269 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
272 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
273 the default. Closes: #538201
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
278 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
282 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
283 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
284 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
285 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
286 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
288 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
289 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
290 * Above Closes: #491117
291 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
296 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
302 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
303 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
304 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
308 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
311 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
312 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
313 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
314 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
315 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
320 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
323 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
324 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
328 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
330 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
334 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
336 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
337 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
339 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
340 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
341 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
345 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
347 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
348 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
352 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
358 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
360 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
361 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
362 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
367 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
369 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
373 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
376 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
377 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
378 created by using `python' first during build and install.
380 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
385 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
387 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
391 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
393 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
394 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
398 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
400 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
404 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
406 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
410 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
412 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
413 contributed by Modestas Vainius
414 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
415 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
416 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
417 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
418 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
419 that support it. Closes: #480577
420 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
421 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
422 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
424 - Adds support for cmake.
425 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
426 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
428 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
430 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
431 that use them. The options are:
432 --sourcedir, --destdir
433 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
434 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
435 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
436 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
437 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
441 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
447 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
450 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
451 default. Closes: #537140
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
455 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
458 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
459 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
463 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
465 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
466 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
470 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
473 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
477 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
480 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
482 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
483 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
484 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
488 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
491 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
492 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
493 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
497 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
500 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
501 warning or deprecation message.
502 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
503 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
504 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
505 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
506 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
507 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
508 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
509 Closes: #534639, #357434
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
513 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
519 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
522 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
523 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
524 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
525 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
527 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
528 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
529 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
533 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
539 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
546 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
549 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
553 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
557 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
558 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
560 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
561 file support. Closes: #494914
562 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
566 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
569 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
570 parameters. Closes: #527256
571 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
572 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
573 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
577 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
581 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
582 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
583 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
587 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
590 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
591 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
592 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
596 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
599 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
600 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
602 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
603 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
604 by triggers). Closes: #521181
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
608 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
612 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
616 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
619 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
620 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
621 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
622 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
627 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
633 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
636 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
637 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
638 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
639 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
640 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
642 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
643 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
644 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
645 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
646 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
647 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
651 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
654 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
655 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
656 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
657 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
658 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
660 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
664 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
666 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
670 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
672 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
673 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
674 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
675 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
676 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
677 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
678 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
679 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
680 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
681 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
682 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
686 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
688 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
689 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
691 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
692 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
693 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
694 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
696 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
697 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
701 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
703 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
704 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
705 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
706 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
707 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
708 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
709 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
711 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
712 that uses them. Affected options are:
713 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
714 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
715 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
716 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
717 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
718 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
719 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
720 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
721 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
722 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
723 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
724 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
728 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
735 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
741 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
743 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
744 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
746 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
747 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
748 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
749 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
750 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
752 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
754 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
755 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
756 rules (see bug #509756).
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
760 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
766 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
767 * Typo. Closes: #493062
768 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
769 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
773 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
775 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
776 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
777 empty files. Closes: #490937
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
781 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
787 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
794 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
797 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
798 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
799 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
800 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
805 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
807 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
808 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
809 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
810 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
814 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
817 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
818 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
819 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
820 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
821 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
825 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
832 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
834 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
835 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
836 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
837 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
838 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
839 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
840 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
841 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
842 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
843 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
847 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
850 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
851 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
852 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
853 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
855 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
856 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
857 breaking backwards compatibility.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
861 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
864 message in perl 5.10.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
868 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
874 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Convert copyright file to new format.
877 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
881 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
884 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
888 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
891 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
892 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
893 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
894 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
895 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
896 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
897 logging by dh_listpackages.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
901 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
904 run and there are no packages of that type.
905 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
906 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
907 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
908 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
910 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
911 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
915 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
917 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
918 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
919 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
923 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
926 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
927 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
929 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
930 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
931 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
932 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
933 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
934 planned but not yet implemented.)
935 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
936 if the Makefile has such a target.
937 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
938 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
939 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
940 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
941 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
942 but not yet implemented.)
943 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
944 recommended default, especially when using dh.
945 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
946 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
947 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
949 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
951 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
952 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
954 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
955 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
956 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
961 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
964 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
965 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
969 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
971 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
972 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
973 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
977 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
983 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
989 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
992 just those installed by the program.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
996 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
999 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1000 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1004 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1007 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1008 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1009 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1010 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1014 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1017 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1018 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1022 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1025 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1026 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1030 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1033 with policy. Closes: #461392
1034 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1035 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1036 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1037 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1038 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1042 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1045 Closes: #460340, #460351
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1049 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1052 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1053 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1054 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1055 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1059 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1062 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1063 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1064 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1065 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1066 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1067 package build directory won't work.
1068 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1069 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1070 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1071 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1072 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1073 mode. Closes: #459426
1074 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1079 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1082 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1086 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1090 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1091 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1092 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1093 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1094 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1095 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1099 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1102 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1103 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1104 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1105 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1109 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1112 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1113 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1114 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1115 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1116 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1120 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1123 debian/package.triggers files.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1127 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1130 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1134 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1137 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1138 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1139 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1140 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1145 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1148 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1152 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1155 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1156 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1158 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1163 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1167 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1168 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1169 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1173 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1180 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1187 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1190 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1192 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1193 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1194 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1196 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1197 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1198 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1202 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1205 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1206 * Update urls to web page.
1207 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1208 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1209 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1210 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1214 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1217 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1218 - typo in alternatives call
1219 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1221 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1222 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1226 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1229 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1234 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1240 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1246 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1249 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1251 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1252 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1253 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1254 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1255 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1256 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1257 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1258 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1259 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1260 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1261 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1265 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1268 package install. Closes: #415717
1269 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1270 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1271 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1272 script and then remove the python files.
1273 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1274 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1275 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1276 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1277 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1278 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1279 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1280 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1281 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1282 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1283 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1284 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1285 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1289 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Correct typo in french translation
1295 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1296 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1298 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1300 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1301 Closes: #406921, #381940
1302 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1304 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1305 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1306 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1307 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1308 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1309 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1310 specified). Closes: #381851
1311 * Misc minor changes.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1315 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1322 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1323 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1327 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1333 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1334 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1337 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1338 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1340 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1341 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1342 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1343 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1347 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1350 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1353 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1357 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1363 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1369 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1370 a difficult situation.
1371 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1372 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1373 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1374 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1375 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1376 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1377 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1378 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1379 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1380 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1384 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * Non-maintainer upload.
1387 * Update of dh_python
1388 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1389 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1391 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1392 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1393 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1394 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1395 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1397 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1399 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Non-maintainer upload.
1402 * Update of dh_python
1403 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1404 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1405 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1406 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1407 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1408 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1409 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1410 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1411 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1412 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1414 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1415 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1416 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1417 the not too-distant future).
1418 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1419 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1420 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1421 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1422 thus made the build fail.
1424 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1426 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Non-maintainer upload.
1429 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1431 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1433 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1436 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1437 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1438 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1439 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1440 package. Closes: #301424
1441 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1442 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1443 fonts). Closes: #372686
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1447 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1453 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1454 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1455 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1456 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1457 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1458 above, but already depends on that.
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1462 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1465 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1466 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1467 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1468 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1469 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1473 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1479 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1485 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1486 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1490 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1493 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1497 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1501 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1502 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1503 new version (0.24.1).
1504 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1505 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1508 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1509 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1510 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1511 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1512 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1513 new directory on their own.
1514 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1515 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1519 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1522 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1523 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1524 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1525 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1529 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1532 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1533 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1534 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1535 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1536 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1540 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1546 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1550 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1551 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1555 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1556 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1560 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1562 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1563 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1565 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1566 ignored. Closes: #337664
1568 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1573 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1579 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1584 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1585 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1586 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1587 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1588 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1589 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1590 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1594 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1597 version. Closes: #350607
1598 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1599 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1600 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1601 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1605 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1608 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1609 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1610 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1614 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1621 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1627 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1630 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1634 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1637 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1638 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1639 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1640 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1641 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1642 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1646 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1649 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1650 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1655 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1658 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1662 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1665 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1669 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1672 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1673 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1674 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1675 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1676 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1677 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1681 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1685 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1686 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1687 link. Closes: #346405
1688 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1690 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1691 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1692 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1693 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1694 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1695 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1696 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1700 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1707 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1713 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1716 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1720 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1723 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1728 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1732 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1733 installed. Closes: #342033
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1737 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1740 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1741 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1742 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1747 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1753 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1759 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1763 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1764 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1765 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1769 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1772 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1777 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1784 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1790 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1793 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1794 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1795 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1796 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1797 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1798 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1799 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1801 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1805 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1808 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1809 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1813 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1816 in standard man dirs.
1817 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1821 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1827 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1830 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1835 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1842 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1849 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1852 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1853 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1857 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1860 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1861 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1862 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1864 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1866 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1872 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1878 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1881 mode. Closes: #324161
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1885 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1888 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1889 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1890 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1891 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1896 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1899 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1900 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1901 is necesary for sanity.
1902 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1903 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1908 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1910 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1911 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1915 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1918 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1928 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1931 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1932 released, so use at your own risk.
1933 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1934 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1936 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1937 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1938 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1939 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1940 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1941 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1942 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1943 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1944 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1945 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1946 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1947 including twice per config file line now..
1948 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1949 and simplfy the rules file.
1950 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1951 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1952 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1954 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1955 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1959 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1962 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1966 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1969 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1973 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1976 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1980 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1983 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1984 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1985 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1986 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1987 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1988 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1995 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1996 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1997 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2002 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2005 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2006 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2011 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2014 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2015 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2016 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2021 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2024 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2025 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2026 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2030 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2036 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2043 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2046 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2047 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2048 unknown. Closes: #282924
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2052 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2059 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Spanish man page updates.
2062 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2067 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2073 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2076 * dh_desktop: reindent
2077 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2078 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2082 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2088 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2090 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2096 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2100 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2103 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2104 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2108 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2114 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2120 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2127 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2130 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2134 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2137 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2138 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2139 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2140 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2141 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2142 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2144 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2145 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2146 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2147 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2148 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2149 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2150 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2151 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2152 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2153 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2154 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2155 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2156 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2157 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2158 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2159 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2163 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2170 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2173 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2177 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2180 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2184 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2187 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2191 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2194 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2198 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2204 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2210 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2216 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2219 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2220 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2221 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2225 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2228 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2232 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2235 but occasionally right and necessary.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2239 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2242 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2243 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2244 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2245 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2246 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2250 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2253 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2255 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2256 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2257 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2258 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2259 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2260 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2261 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2262 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2263 postinst scripts for udebs.
2264 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2268 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2271 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2273 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2274 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2278 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2284 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2291 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2298 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2301 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2305 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2308 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2312 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2315 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2318 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2319 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2323 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2329 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2332 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2336 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2339 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2340 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2341 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2343 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2345 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2346 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2347 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2351 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2354 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2359 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2362 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2363 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2364 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2369 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2375 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2381 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2384 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2385 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2386 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2387 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2388 associated -dbg packages.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2392 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2395 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2399 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2402 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2409 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2413 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2416 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2421 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2424 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2428 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2431 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2436 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2439 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2443 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2447 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2448 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2449 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2450 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2451 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2452 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2453 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2454 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2455 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2456 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2460 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2463 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2468 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2471 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2472 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2476 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2479 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2480 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2485 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2488 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2492 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2495 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2499 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2502 out section number. Closes: #204731
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2506 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2513 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2519 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2525 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2528 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2529 removal. Closes: #204286
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2533 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2536 renaming. Closes: #203548
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2540 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2543 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2544 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2548 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2554 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2560 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2566 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2569 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2570 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2571 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2575 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2578 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2579 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2583 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2589 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2596 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2599 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2604 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2607 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2611 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2614 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2616 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2617 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2621 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2624 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2629 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2632 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2636 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2642 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2644 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2648 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2651 it break hard links (see #188663).
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2655 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2658 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2662 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2668 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2672 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2673 debconf-mergetemplates
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2677 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2680 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2684 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2687 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2691 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2694 * Update debhelper(1).
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2698 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2701 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2702 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2703 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2704 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2705 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2709 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2712 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2713 the shell. Closes: #178524
2714 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2718 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2721 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2725 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2728 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2732 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2735 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2736 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2737 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2738 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2743 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2746 files from installation.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2750 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2753 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2754 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2758 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2761 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2765 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2768 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2772 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2778 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2784 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2788 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2789 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2791 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2795 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2798 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2799 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2800 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2801 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2805 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2808 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2812 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2815 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2816 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2820 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2824 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2829 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2835 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2839 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2840 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2841 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2846 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2849 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2850 practice. Closes: #163303
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2854 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2860 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2867 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2870 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2872 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2873 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2874 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2875 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2876 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2880 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2883 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2888 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2894 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2901 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2904 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2909 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2915 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2921 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2927 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2934 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2937 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2938 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2939 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2940 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2945 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2951 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2958 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2961 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2962 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2966 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2969 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2970 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2971 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2972 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2973 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2977 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2980 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2982 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2987 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2990 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2994 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2997 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2998 right thing. Closes: #150644
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3002 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Stupid, evil typo.
3005 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3009 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3016 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3019 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3020 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3025 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3031 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3034 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3038 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3041 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3042 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3047 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3050 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3054 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3060 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3063 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3064 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3068 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3074 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Removing perl warning message.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3080 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3083 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3084 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3085 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3086 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3087 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3088 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3089 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3090 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3094 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3100 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3107 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3110 debconf-mergetemplate.
3111 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3112 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3116 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3119 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3120 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3121 dh_install, which ...
3122 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3123 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3124 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3125 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3126 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3127 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3128 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3129 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3130 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3131 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3132 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3133 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3134 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3135 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3136 other minor changes.
3137 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3138 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3139 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3140 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3141 course there's -X ..)
3142 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3143 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3144 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3146 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3147 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3148 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3149 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3150 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3155 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3161 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3164 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3168 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3174 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3180 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3186 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3192 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3195 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3196 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3197 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3198 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3200 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3201 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3205 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3211 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3214 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3218 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3221 upset. Closes: #131322
3223 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3225 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3228 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3229 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3230 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3231 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3232 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3233 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3234 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3235 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3236 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3237 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3238 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3239 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3240 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3241 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3242 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3244 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3248 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3251 - Better indenting of generated code.
3252 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3256 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3260 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3261 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3262 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3263 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3264 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3265 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3266 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3270 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3273 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3277 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3280 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3281 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3282 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3283 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3284 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3285 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3286 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3287 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3288 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3289 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3290 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3291 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3292 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3293 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3294 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3299 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3305 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3308 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3309 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3313 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3316 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3317 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3321 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3327 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3330 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3331 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3332 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3333 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3334 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3339 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3345 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3348 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3352 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3355 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3360 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3366 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3369 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3373 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3379 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3383 Also some indentation fixes.
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3387 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3390 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3391 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3392 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3393 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3394 Closes: #106514, #85520
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3398 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3404 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3410 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3416 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3422 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3428 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3431 change it in debhelper v4..
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3435 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3441 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3444 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3448 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3451 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3455 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3461 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3464 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3465 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3466 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3467 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3468 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3469 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3470 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3471 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3472 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3473 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3474 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3475 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3479 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3482 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3486 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3493 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3496 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3497 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3498 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3499 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3500 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3501 program those options go to. So, for example,
3502 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3503 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3504 something complex. Closes: #89311
3505 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3509 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3512 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3513 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3514 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3518 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3521 through loop. Closes: #98598
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3525 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Missing semi-colon.
3528 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3529 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3533 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3536 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3537 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3538 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3542 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3545 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3546 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3550 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3553 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3557 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3560 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3561 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3565 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3568 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3569 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3570 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3574 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3577 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3578 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3579 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3583 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3586 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3590 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3596 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3602 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3608 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3614 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3617 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3621 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3624 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3625 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3626 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3627 followed. Closes: #85483
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3631 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3633 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3634 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3635 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3639 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3642 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3643 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3644 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3645 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3646 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3647 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3648 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3649 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3650 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3651 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3652 Closes: #88464, #77743
3653 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3654 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3655 us to deal with that gracefully.
3656 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3658 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3659 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3660 a while, Closes: #51225
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3664 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3670 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3673 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3677 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3681 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3686 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3689 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3690 don't make packlist files.
3691 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3692 debhelper coding standards.
3693 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3694 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3698 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3701 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3705 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3708 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3709 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3710 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3711 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3712 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3713 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3714 but is mildly deprecated.
3715 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3716 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3717 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3718 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3719 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3720 switching to statoverrides..
3721 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3722 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3723 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3724 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3725 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3726 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3728 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3729 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3730 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3731 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3732 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3733 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3734 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3735 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3736 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3738 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3739 variable names, pod man pages).
3740 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3741 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3742 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3743 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3744 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3745 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3746 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3750 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3756 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3763 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3766 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3772 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3773 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3774 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3778 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3780 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3781 they were previously ignored.
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3785 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3787 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3788 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3792 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3794 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3795 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3796 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3800 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3802 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3806 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3808 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3809 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3813 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3815 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3816 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3817 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3818 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3819 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3820 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3821 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3822 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3823 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3824 it is an obsolete program.
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3828 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3830 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3834 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3838 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3840 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3844 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3846 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3848 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3850 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3854 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3860 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * typo: Closes, #78567
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3866 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3872 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3878 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3881 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3882 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3883 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3884 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3885 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3889 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3892 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3897 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3900 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3901 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3902 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3903 backwards-compatibility.
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3907 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3910 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3911 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3912 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3913 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3914 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3915 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3917 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3918 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3919 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3921 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3923 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3924 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3925 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3926 should now be raised to severity important..
3927 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3928 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3932 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3935 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3940 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3946 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3952 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3958 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3965 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3968 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3969 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3970 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3971 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3975 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3981 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3984 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3985 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3986 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3987 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3988 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3989 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3994 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3997 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4001 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4007 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4010 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4015 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4018 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4019 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4020 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4021 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4025 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4029 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4032 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4035 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4036 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4039 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4041 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4042 the TODO entry about it.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4046 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4053 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4056 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4057 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4061 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4064 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4065 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4066 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4067 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4071 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4077 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4084 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4087 (this appears to be logal).
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4091 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4094 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4095 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4096 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4097 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4101 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4107 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4110 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4111 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4112 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4113 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4117 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4123 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4126 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4130 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4137 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4140 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4141 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4142 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4147 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4154 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4160 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4163 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4164 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4165 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4166 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4167 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4168 notice until v2 is complete.
4169 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4170 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4171 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4172 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4173 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4174 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4176 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4177 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4178 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4179 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4183 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4189 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4196 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4199 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4203 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4210 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4213 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4214 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4215 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4216 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4221 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4224 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4225 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4226 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4231 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4234 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4235 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4239 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4242 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4246 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4249 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4253 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4260 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4263 depend on the build and install targets.
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4267 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4270 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4274 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4281 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4287 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4293 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4296 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4297 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4298 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4299 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4300 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4301 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4303 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4304 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4305 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4306 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4307 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4308 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4309 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4313 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4319 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4325 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4328 right place. Closes: #55065
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4332 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4339 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4342 * Copyright date updates.
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4346 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4349 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4354 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4360 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4367 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4373 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4379 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4385 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4388 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4389 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4390 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4391 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4392 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4393 bits until all files have been registered.
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4397 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * dh_installmanpages:
4400 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4401 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4402 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4403 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4404 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4405 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4406 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4407 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4408 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4409 otherwise change the result at all.
4411 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4412 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4413 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4414 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4415 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4420 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4426 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4429 act on files that don't exist.
4430 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4431 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4432 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4434 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4435 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4436 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4437 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4441 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4447 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4453 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4456 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4460 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4463 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4465 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4466 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4467 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4471 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4474 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4475 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4476 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4477 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4478 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4479 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4480 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4482 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4484 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4488 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4495 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4501 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4507 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4509 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4510 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4514 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4516 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4520 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4526 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4529 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4530 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4531 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4532 I made some changes, though:
4533 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4534 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4535 that is a clear violation of policy.
4536 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4537 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4538 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4539 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4540 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4541 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4542 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4543 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4544 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4546 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4550 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4556 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4559 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4563 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4566 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4567 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4572 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4578 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4585 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4588 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4589 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4590 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4591 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4592 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4593 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4594 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4598 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4608 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4609 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4613 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4619 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4622 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4626 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4629 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4630 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4634 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4636 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4641 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4645 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4649 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4652 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4653 for the dependancies to be generated.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4657 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4660 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4664 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4667 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4668 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4669 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4674 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4677 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4678 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4682 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4688 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4694 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4697 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4701 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4707 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4710 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4711 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4712 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4713 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4714 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4715 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4716 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4717 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4718 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4719 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4720 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4721 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4725 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4728 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4729 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4731 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4732 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4733 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4734 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4735 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4736 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4738 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4739 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4743 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4746 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4750 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4757 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4760 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4765 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4768 for building debhelper.
4769 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4773 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4780 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4783 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4787 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4790 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4791 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4792 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4793 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4794 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4795 it's always available.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4799 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4802 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4803 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4804 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4808 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4811 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4812 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4816 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4822 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4825 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4829 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4835 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4838 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4839 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4840 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4844 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4847 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4852 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4855 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4856 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4858 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4859 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4863 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4865 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4869 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4875 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4878 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4882 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4885 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4886 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4888 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4892 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4895 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4896 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4897 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4901 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4904 things if CDPATH is set.
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4908 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4914 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4917 seems to make sense for the transition.
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4921 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4924 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4929 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4932 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4933 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4937 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4940 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4944 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4947 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4948 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4949 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4950 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4954 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4960 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4963 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4964 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4965 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4966 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4967 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4968 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4969 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4970 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4971 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4972 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4977 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4980 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4981 * README: mention doc/v2
4982 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4983 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4987 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4989 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4990 be using this script RSN.
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4994 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4997 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4998 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4999 more than 1 init script.
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5003 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5006 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5010 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * Changed perl version detection.
5013 * Changed call to find.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5017 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5020 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5022 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5027 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * Really include dh_installpam.
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5033 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5036 * Wrote man page for same.
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5040 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5043 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5044 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5049 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5051 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5056 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5059 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5060 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5061 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5062 x bit was being set!
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5066 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5069 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5070 well. (Closes: 38900)
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5074 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5076 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5077 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5078 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5082 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5088 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5095 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5101 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5104 help from Julian Gilbey.
5105 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5106 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5107 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5108 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5109 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5110 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5111 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5116 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5122 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5129 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5135 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5141 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5144 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5148 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5151 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5155 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5158 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5162 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5168 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5171 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5175 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5181 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5187 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5190 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5191 may be deleted. (#35845)
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5195 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * Various man page enhancements.
5198 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5203 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5206 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5207 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5211 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5214 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5215 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5216 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5218 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5219 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5224 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5230 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * Another very minor typo fix.
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5236 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * Very minor typo fix.
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5242 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5245 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5246 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5250 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5256 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5259 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5260 variables properly (#34850).
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5264 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5270 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5273 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5274 (automatically generated by build process).
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5278 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5280 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5284 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5287 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5288 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5290 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5294 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5297 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5301 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * README: minor typo fix.
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5307 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5310 leave it at that. :-)
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5314 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5320 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5326 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5329 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5330 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5331 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5335 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5338 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5342 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5345 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5349 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5352 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5353 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5354 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5355 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5359 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5362 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5363 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5364 Craig Small for spotting this.
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5368 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5371 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5372 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5376 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5382 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5385 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5389 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5391 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5392 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5393 working on the last version of debhelper.
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5397 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5400 being made. (#23255)
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5404 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5410 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5413 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5417 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5420 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5421 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5422 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5423 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5427 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5430 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5431 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5432 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5433 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5435 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5436 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5438 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5443 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5449 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5455 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5458 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5459 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5460 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5461 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5462 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5463 suidregister actually supports it.
5464 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5465 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5469 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5476 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5479 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5480 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5481 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5482 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5483 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5484 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5485 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5489 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5491 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5492 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5496 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5499 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5500 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5501 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5502 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5506 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5509 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5511 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5512 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5513 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5514 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5515 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5516 effect, either. (#30118)
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5520 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5526 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5529 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5530 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5534 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5540 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5543 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5544 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5545 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5546 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5550 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5553 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5554 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5558 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5564 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5567 packages, painlessly.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5571 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5577 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5583 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5589 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * The perl conversion is complete.
5593 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5595 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5596 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5597 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5602 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5605 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5606 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5607 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5611 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5614 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5616 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5618 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5619 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5623 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5625 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5626 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5627 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5631 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5637 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5639 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5640 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5641 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5642 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5643 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5644 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5648 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5650 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5651 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5652 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5653 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5654 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5658 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5661 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5665 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5668 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5669 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5670 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5671 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5672 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5673 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5674 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5675 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5679 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5685 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5688 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5689 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5690 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5695 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5698 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5702 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5704 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5705 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5709 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5712 sections of shared libraries.
5713 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5714 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5715 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5716 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5717 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5718 things you don't want them to.
5719 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5720 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5724 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5727 shared libraries. (#26414)
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5731 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5733 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5734 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5735 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5736 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5740 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5744 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5746 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5747 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5748 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5749 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5750 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5754 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5757 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5761 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5764 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5765 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5770 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5773 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5777 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5780 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5781 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5782 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5783 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5784 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5786 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5787 remove debian/files properly.
5788 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5789 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5790 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5791 * Removed bogus menu file.
5793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5795 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5797 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5798 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5802 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5805 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5806 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5807 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5808 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5809 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5810 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5814 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5817 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5818 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5819 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5820 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5824 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5826 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5831 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5834 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5835 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5837 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5838 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5839 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5840 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5841 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5842 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5846 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5848 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5849 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5850 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5851 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5852 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5853 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5854 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5855 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5856 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5857 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5858 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5859 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5860 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5861 passed any switches.
5862 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5866 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5869 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5870 at all for a long while.
5871 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5872 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5873 large chunks in the process.
5874 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5875 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5876 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5881 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5884 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5886 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5891 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5893 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5894 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5895 that don't always have the same files in them.
5896 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5897 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5898 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5902 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5906 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5907 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5908 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5909 updating 27 man pages.
5910 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5911 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5912 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5913 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5914 programs act on. (#25247)
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5918 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5922 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5923 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5924 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5925 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5926 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5927 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5932 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5939 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5941 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5946 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5949 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5953 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5959 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5961 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5962 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5963 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5964 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5965 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5966 package by accident.
5967 * Is version 1.0 next?
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5971 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5974 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5975 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5979 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5982 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5983 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5984 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5985 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5986 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5988 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5993 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5996 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5997 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6001 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6003 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6004 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6008 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6010 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6011 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6012 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6017 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6019 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6023 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6026 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6027 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6032 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6034 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6038 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6040 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6041 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6042 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6043 past week. Thanks, guys!
6045 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6046 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6047 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6048 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6049 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6050 would do in the same situation.
6051 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6052 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6054 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6056 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6057 permissions changed.
6058 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6059 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6060 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6061 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6062 files are treated identically.
6063 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6064 * Minor man page fixes.
6065 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6066 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6067 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6071 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6073 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6074 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6075 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6076 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6077 use -X multiple times, too.
6078 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6079 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6083 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6085 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6086 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6087 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6091 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6094 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6098 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6100 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6101 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6102 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6103 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6104 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6105 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6106 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6107 shape if you're starting a new package.
6109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6111 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6113 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6114 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6118 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6120 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6121 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6122 because of missing symlinks.
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6126 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6132 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6135 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6136 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6137 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6138 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6139 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6141 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6142 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6146 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6148 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6149 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6150 to be changed after the fact :-)
6151 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6155 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6157 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6158 no version string after the -V.
6160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6162 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6164 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6165 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6170 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6172 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6173 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6177 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6179 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6180 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6181 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6182 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6183 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6184 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6185 I always welcome corrections!
6187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6189 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6191 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6195 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6197 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6198 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6199 * Documented this new switch.
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6203 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6206 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6207 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6208 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6209 no packages use the old behavior.
6211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6213 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6215 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6216 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6217 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6221 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6223 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6224 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6228 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6234 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6236 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6237 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6241 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6243 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6244 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6245 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6246 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6250 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6252 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6256 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6258 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6259 into the source package by accident.
6261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6263 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6265 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6266 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6267 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6268 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6269 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6270 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6271 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6276 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6278 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6280 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6281 inspired to implement some of it.
6282 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6286 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6289 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6293 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6296 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6297 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6301 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6303 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6304 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6305 have done.) (#17598)
6307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6309 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6311 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6315 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6321 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6323 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6324 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6328 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6330 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6331 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6332 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6336 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6338 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6339 argument processor in perl.
6340 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6341 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6342 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6343 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6347 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6349 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6350 type directories. (#16933)
6351 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6352 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6353 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6354 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6355 are supported. (#16935)
6356 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6361 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6363 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6364 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6368 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6370 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6372 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6373 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6374 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6375 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6376 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6377 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6381 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6383 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6384 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6385 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6387 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6388 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6389 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6390 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6391 a given package, or -i or -a.
6392 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6393 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6394 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6395 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6396 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6397 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6398 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6399 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6400 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6402 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6403 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6404 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6408 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6410 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6411 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6412 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6417 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6419 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6420 does not have a section.
6422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6424 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6426 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6427 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6428 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6429 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6433 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6435 * Fixed typo #16215.
6437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6439 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6441 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6442 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6443 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6444 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6445 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6446 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6451 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6453 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6454 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6455 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6456 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6461 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6463 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6467 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6469 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6473 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6475 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6476 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6477 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6478 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6479 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6480 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6481 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6485 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6487 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6491 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6493 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6494 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6498 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6500 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6501 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6502 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6503 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6507 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6509 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6510 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6514 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6516 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6520 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6522 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6523 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6527 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6529 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6530 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6534 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6536 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6540 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6542 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6543 postinst, postrm, etc.
6545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6547 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6549 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6553 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6555 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6556 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6557 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6558 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6559 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6560 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6564 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6566 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6567 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6568 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6572 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6574 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6575 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6579 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6581 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6582 installing package files into.
6583 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6588 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6590 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6592 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6596 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6598 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6602 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6604 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6605 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6609 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6611 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6612 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6613 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6614 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6615 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6619 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6621 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6622 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6623 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6624 multiple binary packages.
6625 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6626 should rebuild them with this version.
6627 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6631 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6633 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6634 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6638 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6640 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6641 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6645 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6647 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6648 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6649 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6650 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6651 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6652 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6653 debian/README.debian.
6654 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6655 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6656 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6657 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6658 in a few situations.)
6660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6662 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6664 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6668 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6670 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6674 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6676 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6677 * Fixed several man pages.
6679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6681 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6683 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6684 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6685 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6689 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6691 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6692 is ready for general use.
6693 * Added man pages for all commands.
6694 * Multiple binary package support.
6695 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6696 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6697 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6699 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6700 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6701 auto-installed as parameters.
6702 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6704 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6707 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6708 the package build directory it is to act on.
6709 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6710 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6711 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6715 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6717 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6718 ready to replace debstd.
6720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400