1 debhelper (7.2.23) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
4 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
5 default. Closes: #537140
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:23:25 -0400
9 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
12 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
13 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
17 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
19 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
20 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
24 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
26 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
27 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
31 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
33 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
34 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
36 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
37 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
38 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
42 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
45 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
46 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
47 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
51 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
53 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
54 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
55 warning or deprecation message.
56 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
57 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
58 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
59 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
60 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
61 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
62 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
63 Closes: #534639, #357434
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
67 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
73 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
76 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
77 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
78 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
79 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
81 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
82 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
83 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
87 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
93 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
100 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
103 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
107 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
109 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
111 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
112 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
114 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
115 file support. Closes: #494914
116 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
120 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
123 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
124 parameters. Closes: #527256
125 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
126 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
127 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
131 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
133 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
135 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
136 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
137 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
141 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
143 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
144 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
145 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
146 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
150 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
153 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
154 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
156 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
157 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
158 by triggers). Closes: #521181
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
162 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
166 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
170 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
173 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
174 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
175 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
176 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
181 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
187 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
190 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
191 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
192 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
193 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
194 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
196 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
197 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
198 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
199 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
200 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
201 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
205 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
208 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
209 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
210 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
211 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
212 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
214 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
218 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
220 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
224 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
226 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
227 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
228 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
229 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
230 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
231 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
232 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
233 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
234 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
235 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
236 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
240 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
242 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
243 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
245 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
246 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
247 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
248 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
250 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
251 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
255 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
257 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
258 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
259 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
260 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
261 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
262 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
263 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
265 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
266 that uses them. Affected options are:
267 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
268 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
269 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
270 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
271 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
272 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
273 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
274 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
275 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
276 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
277 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
278 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
282 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
289 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
295 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
297 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
298 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
300 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
301 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
302 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
303 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
304 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
306 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
308 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
309 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
310 rules (see bug #509756).
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
314 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
320 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
321 * Typo. Closes: #493062
322 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
323 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
327 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
330 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
331 empty files. Closes: #490937
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
335 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
341 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
348 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
351 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
352 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
353 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
354 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
359 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
361 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
362 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
363 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
364 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
368 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
371 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
372 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
373 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
374 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
375 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
379 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
386 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
388 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
389 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
390 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
391 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
392 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
393 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
394 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
395 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
396 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
397 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
401 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
404 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
405 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
406 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
407 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
409 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
410 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
411 breaking backwards compatability.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
415 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
418 message in perl 5.10.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
422 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
428 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Convert copyright file to new format.
431 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
435 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
438 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
442 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
445 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
446 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
447 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
448 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
449 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
450 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
451 logging by dh_listpackages.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
455 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
458 run and there are no packages of that type.
459 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
460 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
461 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
462 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
464 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
465 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
469 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
471 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
472 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
473 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
477 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
480 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
481 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
483 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
484 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
485 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
486 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
487 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
488 planned but not yet implemented.)
489 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
490 if the Makefile has such a target.
491 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
492 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
493 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
494 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
495 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
496 but not yet implemented.)
497 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
498 recommended default, especially when using dh.
499 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
500 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
501 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
503 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
505 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
506 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
508 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
509 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
510 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
515 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
518 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
519 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
523 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
525 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
526 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
527 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
531 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
533 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
537 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
543 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
546 just those installed by the program.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
550 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
553 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
554 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
558 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
561 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
562 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
563 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
564 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
568 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
571 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
572 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
576 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
579 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
580 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
584 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
587 with policy. Closes: #461392
588 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
589 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
590 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
591 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
592 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
596 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
599 Closes: #460340, #460351
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
603 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
606 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
607 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
608 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
609 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
613 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
616 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
617 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
618 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
619 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
620 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
621 package build directory won't work.
622 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
623 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
624 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
625 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
626 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
627 mode. Closes: #459426
628 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
633 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
636 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
640 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
644 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
645 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
646 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
647 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
648 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
649 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
653 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
655 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
656 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
657 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
658 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
659 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
663 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
666 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
667 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
668 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
669 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
670 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
674 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
677 debian/package.triggers files.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
681 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
684 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
688 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
691 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
692 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
693 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
694 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
699 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
702 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
706 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
708 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
709 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
710 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
712 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
717 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
721 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
722 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
723 * Typo. Closes: #441272
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
727 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
734 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
741 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
744 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
746 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
747 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
748 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
750 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
751 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
752 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
756 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
759 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
760 * Update urls to web page.
761 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
763 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
764 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
768 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
771 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
772 - typo in alternatives call
773 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
775 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
776 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
780 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
782 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
783 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
788 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
794 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
800 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
803 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
805 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
806 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
807 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
808 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
809 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
810 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
811 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
812 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
813 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
814 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
815 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
819 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
822 package install. Closes: #415717
823 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
824 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
825 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
826 script and then remove the python files.
827 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
828 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
829 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
830 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
831 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
832 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
833 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
834 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
835 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
836 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
837 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
838 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
839 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
843 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Correct typo in french translation
849 * Typo. Closes: #400571
850 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
852 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
854 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
855 Closes: #406921, #381940
856 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
858 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
859 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
860 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
861 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
862 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
863 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
864 specified). Closes: #381851
865 * Misc minor changes.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
869 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
876 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
877 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
881 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
887 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
888 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
891 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
892 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
894 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
895 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
896 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
897 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
901 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
904 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
907 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
911 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
917 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
920 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
923 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
924 a difficult situation.
925 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
926 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
927 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
928 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
929 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
930 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
931 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
932 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
933 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
934 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
938 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
940 * Non-maintainer upload.
941 * Update of dh_python
942 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
943 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
945 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
946 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
947 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
948 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
949 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
951 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
953 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Non-maintainer upload.
956 * Update of dh_python
957 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
958 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
959 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
960 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
961 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
962 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
963 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
964 specific python version. Closes: #373853
965 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
966 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
968 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
969 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
970 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
971 the not too-distant future).
972 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
973 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
974 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
975 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
976 thus made the build fail.
978 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
980 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Non-maintainer upload.
983 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
985 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
987 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
990 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
991 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
992 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
993 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
994 package. Closes: #301424
995 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
996 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
997 fonts). Closes: #372686
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1001 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1007 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1008 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1009 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1010 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1011 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1012 above, but already depends on that.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1016 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1019 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1020 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1021 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1022 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1023 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1027 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1033 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1039 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1040 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1044 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1047 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1051 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1055 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1056 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1057 new version (0.24.1).
1058 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1059 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1062 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1063 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1064 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1065 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1066 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1067 new directory on their own.
1068 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1069 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1073 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1076 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1077 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1078 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1079 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1083 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1086 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1087 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1088 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1089 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1090 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1094 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1100 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1104 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1105 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1109 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1110 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1114 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1116 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1117 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1119 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1120 ignored. Closes: #337664
1122 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1127 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1133 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1138 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1139 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1140 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1141 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1142 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1143 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1144 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1148 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1151 version. Closes: #350607
1152 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1153 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1154 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1155 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1159 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1162 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1163 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1164 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1168 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1175 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1181 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1184 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1188 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1191 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1192 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1193 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1194 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1195 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1196 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1200 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1203 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1204 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1209 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1212 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1216 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1219 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1223 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1226 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1227 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1228 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1229 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1230 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1231 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1235 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1239 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1240 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1241 link. Closes: #346405
1242 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1244 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1245 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1246 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1247 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1248 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1249 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1250 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1254 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1261 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1267 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1270 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1274 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1277 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1282 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1286 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1287 installed. Closes: #342033
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1291 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1294 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1295 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1296 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1301 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1307 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1313 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1317 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1318 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1319 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1323 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1326 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1331 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1338 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1344 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1347 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1348 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1349 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1350 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1351 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1352 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1353 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1355 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1359 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1362 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1363 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1367 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1370 in standard man dirs.
1371 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1375 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1381 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1384 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1389 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1396 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1403 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1406 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1407 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1411 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1414 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1415 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1416 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1418 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1420 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1426 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1432 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1435 mode. Closes: #324161
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1439 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1442 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1443 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1444 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1445 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1450 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1453 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1454 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1455 is necesary for sanity.
1456 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1457 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1462 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1464 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1465 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1469 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1472 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1476 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1482 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1485 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1486 released, so use at your own risk.
1487 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1488 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1490 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1491 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1492 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1493 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1494 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1495 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1496 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1497 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1498 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1499 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1500 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1501 including twice per config file line now..
1502 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1503 and simplfy the rules file.
1504 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1505 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1506 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1508 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1509 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1513 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1516 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1520 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1523 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1527 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1530 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1534 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1537 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1538 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1539 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1540 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1541 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1542 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1546 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1549 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1550 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1551 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1556 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1559 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1560 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1565 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1568 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1569 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1570 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1575 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1578 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1579 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1580 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1584 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1590 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1597 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1600 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1601 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1602 unknown. Closes: #282924
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1606 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1613 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * Spanish man page updates.
1616 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1621 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1627 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1630 * dh_desktop: reindent
1631 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1632 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1636 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1642 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1644 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1648 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1650 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1654 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1657 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1658 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1662 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1668 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1674 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1681 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1684 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1688 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1691 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1692 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1693 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1694 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1695 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1696 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1698 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1699 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1700 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1701 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1702 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1703 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1704 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1705 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1706 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1707 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1708 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1709 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1710 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1711 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1712 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1713 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1717 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1724 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1727 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1731 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1734 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1738 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1741 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1745 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1748 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1752 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1758 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1764 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1770 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1773 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1774 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1775 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1779 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1782 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1786 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1789 but occasionally right and necessary.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1793 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1796 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1797 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1798 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1799 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1800 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1804 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1807 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1809 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1810 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1811 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1812 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1813 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1814 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1815 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1816 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1817 postinst scripts for udebs.
1818 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1822 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1825 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1827 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1828 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1832 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1838 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1845 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1852 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1855 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1859 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1862 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1866 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1869 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1872 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1873 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1877 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1883 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1886 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1890 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1893 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1894 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1895 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1897 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1899 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1900 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1901 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1905 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1908 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1913 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1916 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1917 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1918 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1923 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1929 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1935 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1938 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1939 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1940 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1941 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1942 associated -dbg packages.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1946 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1949 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1953 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1956 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1960 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1963 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1967 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1970 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1975 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1978 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1982 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1985 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1990 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1993 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1997 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2001 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2002 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2003 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2004 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2005 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2006 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2007 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2008 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2009 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2010 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2017 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2022 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2025 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2026 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2030 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2033 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2034 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2039 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2042 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2046 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2049 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2053 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2056 out section number. Closes: #204731
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2060 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2067 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2073 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2082 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2083 removal. Closes: #204286
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2090 renaming. Closes: #203548
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2097 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2098 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2102 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2108 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2114 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2120 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2123 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2124 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2125 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2129 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2132 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2133 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2143 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2150 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2153 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2158 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2161 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2165 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2168 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2170 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2171 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2178 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2183 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2186 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2190 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2196 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2198 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2202 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2205 it break hard links (see #188663).
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2209 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2212 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2216 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2222 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2226 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2227 debconf-mergetemplates
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2231 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2234 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2238 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2241 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2245 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2248 * Update debhelper(1).
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2252 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2255 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2256 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2257 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2258 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2259 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2263 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2266 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2267 the shell. Closes: #178524
2268 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2272 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2275 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2279 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2282 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2286 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2289 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2290 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2291 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2292 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2297 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2300 files from installation.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2304 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2307 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2308 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2312 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2315 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2319 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2322 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2326 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2332 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2338 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2342 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2343 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2345 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2349 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2352 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2353 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2354 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2355 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2359 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2362 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2366 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2369 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2370 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2374 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2378 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2383 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2389 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2393 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2394 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2395 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2400 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2403 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2404 practice. Closes: #163303
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2408 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2414 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2421 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2424 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2426 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2427 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2428 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2429 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2430 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2434 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2437 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2442 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2448 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2455 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2458 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2463 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2469 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2475 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2491 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2492 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2493 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2494 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2499 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2505 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2512 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2515 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2516 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2520 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2523 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2524 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2525 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2526 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2527 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2531 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2534 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2536 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2541 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2544 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2548 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2551 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2552 right thing. Closes: #150644
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2556 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Stupid, evil typo.
2559 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2563 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2570 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2573 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2574 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2579 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2585 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2588 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2592 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2595 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2596 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2601 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2604 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2608 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2614 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2617 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2618 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2622 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2628 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Removing perl warning message.
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2634 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2637 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2638 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2639 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2640 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2641 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2642 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2643 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2644 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2648 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2654 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2661 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2664 debconf-mergetemplate.
2665 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2666 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2670 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2673 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2674 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2675 dh_install, which ...
2676 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2677 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2678 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2679 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2680 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2681 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2682 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2683 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2684 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2685 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2686 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2687 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2688 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2689 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2690 other minor changes.
2691 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2692 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2693 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2694 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2695 course there's -X ..)
2696 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2697 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2698 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2700 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2701 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2702 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2703 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2704 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2709 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2715 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2718 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2722 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2728 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2734 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2740 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2746 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2749 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2750 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2751 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2752 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2754 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2755 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2759 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2765 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2768 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2772 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2775 upset. Closes: #131322
2777 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2779 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2782 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2783 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2784 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2785 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2786 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2787 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2788 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2789 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2790 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2791 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2792 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2793 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2794 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2795 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2796 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2798 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2802 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2805 - Better indenting of generated code.
2806 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2810 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2814 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2815 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2816 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2817 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2818 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2819 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2820 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2824 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2827 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2831 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2834 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2835 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2836 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2837 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2838 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2839 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2840 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2841 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2842 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2843 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2844 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2845 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2846 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2847 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2848 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2853 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2859 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2862 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2863 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2867 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2870 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2871 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2875 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2881 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2884 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2885 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2886 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2887 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2888 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2893 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2899 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2902 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2906 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2909 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2914 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2920 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2923 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2927 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2933 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2937 Also some indentation fixes.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2941 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2944 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2945 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2946 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2947 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2948 Closes: #106514, #85520
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2952 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2958 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2964 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2970 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2976 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2982 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2985 change it in debhelper v4..
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2989 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2995 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2998 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3002 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3005 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3009 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3015 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3018 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3019 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3020 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3021 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3022 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3023 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3024 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3025 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3026 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3027 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3028 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3029 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3033 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3036 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3040 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3047 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3050 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3051 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3052 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3053 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3054 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3055 program those options go to. So, for example,
3056 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3057 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3058 something complex. Closes: #89311
3059 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3063 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3066 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3067 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3068 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3072 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3075 through loop. Closes: #98598
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3079 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Missing semi-colon.
3082 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3083 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3087 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3090 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3091 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3092 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3096 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3099 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3100 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3104 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3107 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3111 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3114 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3115 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3119 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3122 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3123 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3124 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3128 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3131 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3132 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3133 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3137 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3140 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3144 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3150 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3156 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3162 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3168 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3171 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3175 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3178 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3179 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3180 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3181 followed. Closes: #85483
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3185 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3187 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3188 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3189 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3193 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3196 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3197 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3198 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3199 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3200 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3201 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3202 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3203 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3204 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3205 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3206 Closes: #88464, #77743
3207 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3208 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3209 us to deal with that gracefully.
3210 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3212 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3213 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3214 a while, Closes: #51225
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3218 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3224 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3227 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3231 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3235 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3240 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3243 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3244 don't make packlist files.
3245 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3246 debhelper coding standards.
3247 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3248 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3252 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3255 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3259 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3262 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3263 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3264 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3265 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3266 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3267 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3268 but is mildly deprecated.
3269 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3270 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3271 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3272 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3273 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3274 switching to statoverrides..
3275 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3276 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3277 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3278 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3279 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3280 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3282 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3283 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3284 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3285 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3286 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3287 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3288 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3289 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3290 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3292 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3293 variable names, pod man pages).
3294 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3295 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3296 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3297 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3298 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3299 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3300 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3304 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3310 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3317 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3320 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3324 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3326 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3327 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3328 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3332 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3334 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3335 they were previously ignored.
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3339 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3341 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3342 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3346 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3348 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3349 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3350 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3354 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3356 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3360 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3362 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3363 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3367 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3369 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3370 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3371 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3372 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3373 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3374 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3375 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3376 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3377 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3378 it is an obsolete program.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3382 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3384 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3388 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3392 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3394 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3398 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3400 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3402 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3404 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3408 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3414 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * typo: Closes, #78567
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3420 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3426 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3432 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3435 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3436 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3437 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3438 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3439 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3443 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3446 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3451 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3454 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3455 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3456 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3457 backwards-compatability.
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3461 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3464 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3465 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3466 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3467 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3468 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3469 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3471 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3472 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3473 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3475 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3477 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3478 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3479 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3480 should now be raised to severity important..
3481 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3482 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3486 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3489 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3494 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3500 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3506 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3512 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3519 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3522 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3523 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3524 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3525 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3529 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3535 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3538 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3539 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3540 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3541 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3542 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3543 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3548 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3551 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3555 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3561 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3564 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3569 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3572 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3573 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3574 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3575 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3579 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3583 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3586 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3589 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3590 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3593 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3595 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3596 the TODO entry about it.
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3600 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3607 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3610 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3611 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3615 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3618 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3619 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3620 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3621 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3625 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3631 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3638 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3641 (this appears to be logal).
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3645 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3648 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3649 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3650 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3651 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3655 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3661 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3664 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3665 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3666 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3667 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3671 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3677 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3680 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3684 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3691 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3694 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3695 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3696 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3701 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3708 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3714 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3717 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3718 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3719 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3720 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3721 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3722 notice until v2 is complete.
3723 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3724 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3725 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3726 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3727 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3728 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3730 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3731 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3732 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3733 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3737 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3743 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3750 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3753 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3757 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3764 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3767 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3768 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3769 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3770 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3775 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3778 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3779 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3780 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3785 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3788 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3789 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3793 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3796 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3800 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3803 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3807 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3814 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3817 depend on the build and install targets.
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3821 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3824 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3828 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3835 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3841 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3847 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3850 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3851 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3852 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3853 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3854 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3855 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3857 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3858 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3859 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3860 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3861 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3862 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3863 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3867 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3873 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3879 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3882 right place. Closes: #55065
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3886 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3893 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3896 * Copyright date updates.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3900 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3903 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3908 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3914 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3921 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3927 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3933 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3939 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3942 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3943 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3944 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3945 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3946 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3947 bits until all files have been registered.
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3951 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * dh_installmanpages:
3954 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3955 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3956 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3957 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3958 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3959 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3960 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3961 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3962 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3963 otherwise change the result at all.
3965 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3966 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3967 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3968 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3969 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3974 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3980 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3983 act on files that don't exist.
3984 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3985 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3986 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3988 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3989 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3990 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3991 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3995 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4001 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4007 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4010 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4014 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4017 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4019 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4020 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4021 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4025 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4028 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4029 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4030 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4031 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4032 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4033 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4034 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4036 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4038 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4042 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4049 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4055 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4061 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4064 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4068 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4074 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4080 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4083 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4084 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4085 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4086 I made some changes, though:
4087 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4088 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4089 that is a clear violation of policy.
4090 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4091 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4092 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4093 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4094 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4095 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4096 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4097 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4098 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4100 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4110 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4113 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4117 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4120 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4121 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4126 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4132 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4139 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4142 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4143 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4144 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4145 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4146 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4147 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4148 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4152 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4158 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4162 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4163 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4167 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4176 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4180 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4183 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4184 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4188 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4190 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4195 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4199 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4203 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4206 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4207 for the dependancies to be generated.
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4211 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4214 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4218 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4221 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4222 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4223 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4228 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4231 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4232 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4236 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4242 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4248 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4251 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4255 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4264 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4265 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4266 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4267 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4268 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4269 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4270 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4271 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4272 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4273 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4274 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4275 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4279 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4282 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4283 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4285 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4286 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4287 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4288 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4289 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4290 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4292 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4293 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4297 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4300 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4304 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4311 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4314 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4319 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4322 for building debhelper.
4323 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4327 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4334 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4337 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4341 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4344 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4345 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4346 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4347 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4348 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4349 it's always available.
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4353 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4356 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4357 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4358 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4362 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4365 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4366 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4370 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4376 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4379 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4383 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4389 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4392 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4393 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4394 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4398 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4401 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4406 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4409 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4410 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4412 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4413 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4417 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4423 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4429 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4432 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4436 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4439 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4440 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4442 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4446 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4449 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4450 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4451 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4455 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4458 things if CDPATH is set.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4462 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4468 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4471 seems to make sense for the transition.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4475 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4478 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4483 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4486 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4487 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4491 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4494 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4498 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4501 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4502 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4503 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4504 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4508 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4514 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4516 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4517 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4518 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4519 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4520 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4521 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4522 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4523 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4524 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4525 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4526 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4531 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4534 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4535 * README: mention doc/v2
4536 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4537 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4541 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4543 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4544 be using this script RSN.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4548 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4551 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4552 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4553 more than 1 init script.
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4557 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4560 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4564 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * Changed perl version detection.
4567 * Changed call to find.
4569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4571 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4573 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4574 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4576 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4581 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * Really include dh_installpam.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4587 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4590 * Wrote man page for same.
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4594 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4597 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4598 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4603 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4610 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4613 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4614 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4615 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4616 x bit was being set!
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4620 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4623 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4624 well. (Closes: 38900)
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4628 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4631 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4632 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4636 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4642 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4649 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4655 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4658 help from Julian Gilbey.
4659 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4660 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4661 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4662 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4663 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4664 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4665 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4670 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4676 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4683 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4689 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4695 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4698 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4702 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4705 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4709 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4712 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4716 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4722 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4725 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4729 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4735 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4741 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4744 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4745 may be deleted. (#35845)
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4749 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * Various man page enhancements.
4752 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4757 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4760 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4761 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4765 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4768 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4769 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4770 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4772 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4773 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4778 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4784 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * Another very minor typo fix.
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4790 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * Very minor typo fix.
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4796 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4799 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4800 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4804 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4810 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4813 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4814 variables properly (#34850).
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4818 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4824 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4827 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4828 (automatically generated by build process).
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4832 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4834 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4838 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4841 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4842 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4844 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4848 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4851 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4855 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * README: minor typo fix.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4861 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4864 leave it at that. :-)
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4868 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4874 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4880 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4883 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4884 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4885 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4889 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4892 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4896 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4899 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4903 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4906 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4907 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4908 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4909 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4913 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4916 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4917 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4918 Craig Small for spotting this.
4920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4922 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4924 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4925 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4926 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4930 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4936 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4939 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4943 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4945 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4946 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4947 working on the last version of debhelper.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4951 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4954 being made. (#23255)
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4958 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4964 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4967 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4971 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4974 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4975 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4976 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4977 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4981 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4984 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4985 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4986 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4987 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4989 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4990 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4992 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4997 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5003 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5009 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5012 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5013 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5014 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5015 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5016 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5017 suidregister actually supports it.
5018 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5019 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5023 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5030 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5033 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5034 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5035 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5036 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5037 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5038 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5039 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5043 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5045 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5046 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5050 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5053 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5054 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5055 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5056 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5060 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5063 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5065 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5066 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5067 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5068 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5069 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5070 effect, either. (#30118)
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5074 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5076 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5080 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5083 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5084 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5088 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5094 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5097 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5098 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5099 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5100 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5104 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5107 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5108 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5112 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5118 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5121 packages, painlessly.
5123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5125 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5127 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5131 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5137 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5143 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * The perl conversion is complete.
5147 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5149 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5150 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5151 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5156 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5159 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5160 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5161 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5165 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5168 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5170 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5172 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5173 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5177 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5180 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5181 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5185 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5187 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5191 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5194 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5195 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5196 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5197 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5198 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5202 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5205 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5206 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5207 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5208 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5212 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5215 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5219 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5222 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5223 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5224 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5225 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5226 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5227 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5228 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5229 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5233 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5239 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5242 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5243 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5244 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5249 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5252 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5256 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5259 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5263 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5266 sections of shared libraries.
5267 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5268 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5269 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5270 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5271 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5272 things you don't want them to.
5273 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5274 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5278 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5281 shared libraries. (#26414)
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5285 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5287 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5288 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5289 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5290 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5294 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5298 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5300 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5301 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5302 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5303 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5304 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5308 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5311 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5315 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5318 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5319 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5324 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5327 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5331 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5333 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5334 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5335 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5336 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5337 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5338 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5340 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5341 remove debian/files properly.
5342 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5343 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5344 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5345 * Removed bogus menu file.
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5349 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5352 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5356 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5359 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5360 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5361 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5362 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5363 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5364 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5368 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5371 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5372 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5373 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5374 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5378 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5385 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5388 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5389 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5391 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5392 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5393 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5394 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5395 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5396 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5400 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5403 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5404 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5405 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5406 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5407 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5408 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5409 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5410 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5411 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5412 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5413 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5414 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5415 passed any switches.
5416 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5420 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5423 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5424 at all for a long while.
5425 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5426 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5427 large chunks in the process.
5428 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5429 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5430 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5435 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5438 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5440 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5445 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5448 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5449 that don't always have the same files in them.
5450 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5451 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5452 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5456 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5460 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5461 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5462 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5463 updating 27 man pages.
5464 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5465 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5466 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5467 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5468 programs act on. (#25247)
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5472 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5476 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5477 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5478 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5479 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5480 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5481 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5486 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5493 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5495 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5500 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5503 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5507 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5513 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5516 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5517 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5518 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5519 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5520 package by accident.
5521 * Is version 1.0 next?
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5525 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5528 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5529 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5533 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5536 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5537 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5538 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5539 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5540 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5542 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5547 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5550 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5551 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5555 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5558 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5562 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5565 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5566 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5571 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5577 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5580 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5581 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5586 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5592 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5595 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5596 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5597 past week. Thanks, guys!
5599 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5600 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5601 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5602 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5603 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5604 would do in the same situation.
5605 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5606 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5608 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5610 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5611 permissions changed.
5612 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5613 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5614 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5615 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5616 files are treated identically.
5617 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5618 * Minor man page fixes.
5619 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5620 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5621 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5625 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5628 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5629 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5630 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5631 use -X multiple times, too.
5632 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5633 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5637 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5639 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5640 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5641 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5645 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5648 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5652 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5655 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5656 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5657 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5658 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5659 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5660 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5661 shape if you're starting a new package.
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5665 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5668 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5672 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5674 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5675 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5676 because of missing symlinks.
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5680 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5686 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5689 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5690 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5691 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5692 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5693 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5695 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5696 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5700 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5702 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5703 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5704 to be changed after the fact :-)
5705 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5709 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5711 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5712 no version string after the -V.
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5716 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5718 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5719 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5724 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5727 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5731 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5734 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5735 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5736 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5737 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5738 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5739 I always welcome corrections!
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5743 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5745 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5749 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5752 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5753 * Documented this new switch.
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5757 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5760 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5761 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5762 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5763 no packages use the old behavior.
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5767 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5770 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5771 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5775 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5778 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5782 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5784 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5788 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5791 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5795 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5797 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5798 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5799 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5800 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5804 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5810 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5813 into the source package by accident.
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5817 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5820 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5821 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5822 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5823 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5824 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5825 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5830 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5834 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5835 inspired to implement some of it.
5836 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5840 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5843 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5847 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5850 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5851 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5855 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5858 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5859 have done.) (#17598)
5861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5863 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5865 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5869 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5875 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5878 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5882 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5885 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5886 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5890 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5893 argument processor in perl.
5894 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5895 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5896 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5897 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5901 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5903 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5904 type directories. (#16933)
5905 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5906 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5907 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5908 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5909 are supported. (#16935)
5910 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5915 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5917 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5918 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5922 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5924 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5926 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5927 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5928 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5929 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5930 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5931 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5935 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5937 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5938 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5939 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5941 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5942 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5943 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5944 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5945 a given package, or -i or -a.
5946 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5947 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5948 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5949 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5950 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5951 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5952 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5953 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5954 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5956 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5957 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5958 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5962 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5965 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5966 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5971 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5974 does not have a section.
5976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5978 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5980 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5981 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5982 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5983 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5987 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5989 * Fixed typo #16215.
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5993 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5996 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5997 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5998 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5999 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6000 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6005 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6008 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6009 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6010 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6015 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6021 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6023 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6027 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6029 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6030 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6031 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6032 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6033 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6034 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6035 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6039 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6045 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6048 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6052 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6055 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6056 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6057 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6061 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6064 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6068 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6074 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6076 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6077 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6081 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6084 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6088 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6094 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6097 postinst, postrm, etc.
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6101 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6103 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6107 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6110 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6111 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6112 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6113 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6114 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6118 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6120 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6121 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6122 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6126 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6129 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6133 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6135 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6136 installing package files into.
6137 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6142 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6146 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6150 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6156 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6159 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6163 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6165 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6166 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6167 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6168 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6169 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6173 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6175 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6176 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6177 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6178 multiple binary packages.
6179 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6180 should rebuild them with this version.
6181 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6185 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6187 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6188 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6192 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6194 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6195 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6199 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6201 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6202 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6203 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6204 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6205 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6206 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6207 debian/README.debian.
6208 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6209 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6210 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6211 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6212 in a few situations.)
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6216 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6222 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6228 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6231 * Fixed several man pages.
6233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6235 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6237 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6238 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6239 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6243 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6245 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6246 is ready for general use.
6247 * Added man pages for all commands.
6248 * Multiple binary package support.
6249 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6250 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6251 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6253 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6254 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6255 auto-installed as parameters.
6256 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6258 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6261 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6262 the package build directory it is to act on.
6263 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6264 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6265 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6269 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6271 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6272 ready to replace debstd.
6274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400