1 debhelper (9.20120313) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
4 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
5 Added to interface documentation.
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:35:48 -0400
10 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
12 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
16 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
19 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
20 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
21 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
23 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
24 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
25 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
26 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
27 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
32 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
35 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
36 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
37 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
38 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
39 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
40 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
44 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Typo. Closes: #653006
47 * Typo. Closes: #653339
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
51 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
53 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
54 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
55 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
56 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
57 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
58 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
62 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
65 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
66 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
67 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
68 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
69 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
70 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
71 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
75 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
81 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
83 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
84 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
85 may need to disable this.
86 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
87 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
88 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
89 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
93 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
96 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
97 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
101 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
104 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
105 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
107 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
108 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
109 to dh. Closes: #643069
110 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
111 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
115 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
118 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
119 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
120 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
121 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
123 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
124 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
125 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
127 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
128 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
129 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
130 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
131 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
132 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
133 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
134 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
135 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
136 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
137 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
138 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
139 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
140 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
141 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
145 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
152 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
155 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
157 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
163 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
166 Use override targets instead.
167 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
168 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
169 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
170 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
171 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
172 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
173 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
174 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
175 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
176 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
181 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
184 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
188 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
194 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
197 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
198 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
199 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
200 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
201 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
202 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
206 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
209 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
210 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
211 the targets. Closes: #629139
212 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
213 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
214 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
215 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
216 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
217 are already set to other values will not be changed.
219 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
220 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
221 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
222 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
223 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
228 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
234 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
236 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
237 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
238 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
242 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
245 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
246 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
247 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
248 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
249 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
250 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
251 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
256 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
259 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
260 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
261 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
263 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
264 changes may be added to that mode.
265 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
266 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
267 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
268 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
269 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
270 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
271 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
272 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
273 * Removed old example rules files.
274 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
278 * update french translation.
279 * Fix french misspelling.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
283 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
286 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
290 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
293 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
294 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
295 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
296 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
297 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
298 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
299 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
303 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
306 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
307 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
308 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
309 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
310 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
311 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
313 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
314 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
315 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
316 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
317 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
318 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
319 (Thanks, David Prévot)
320 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
321 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
322 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
323 target fails. Closes: #601037
324 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
326 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
327 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
328 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
329 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
330 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
332 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
333 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
335 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
336 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
337 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
339 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
341 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
344 * update french translation.
345 * Fix french misspelling.
346 * French translation update after massive man page typography
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
350 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
356 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
360 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
362 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
366 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
368 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
369 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
370 introduced by the fix to #527990.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
374 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
377 changes are planned for that mode.
378 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
379 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
380 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
381 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
382 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
383 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
384 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
385 (genesis) still uses them.
386 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
387 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
388 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
389 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
390 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
391 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
392 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
393 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
394 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
395 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
396 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
397 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
398 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
399 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
400 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
401 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
402 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
403 commands. (See #570039)
404 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
406 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
411 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
415 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
416 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
417 in control file or debhelper config files.
418 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
422 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
425 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
426 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
430 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
432 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
433 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
437 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
440 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
441 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
445 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
447 * Updated French translation.
448 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
449 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
450 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
451 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
453 * Typo. Closes: #571968
454 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
455 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
456 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
457 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
458 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
459 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
460 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
461 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
462 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
464 * dh: Improve documentation.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
468 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
470 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
471 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
472 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
476 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
478 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
479 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
483 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
485 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
486 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
490 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
493 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
494 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
495 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
496 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
497 options that they do not support.
498 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
499 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
500 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
501 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
502 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
503 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
508 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
512 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
513 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
514 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
515 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
516 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
517 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
518 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
519 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
520 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
524 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
527 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
528 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
529 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
530 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
534 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Typo. Closes: #558654
537 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
538 installed. Closes: #558782
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
542 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
545 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
546 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
547 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
548 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
549 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
553 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
555 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
556 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
557 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
558 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
562 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
565 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
566 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
570 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
572 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
576 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
578 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
579 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
580 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
581 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
582 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
583 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
584 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
585 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
586 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
587 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
588 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
589 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
590 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
591 time soon.) Closes: #554509
592 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
594 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
595 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
596 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
597 document id. Closes: #555677
598 * Typo. Closes: #555659
599 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
600 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
601 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
602 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
604 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
605 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
606 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
611 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
614 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
615 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
616 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
617 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
618 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
619 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
620 translation (#494300 part 2)
623 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
625 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
626 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
627 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
628 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
629 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
633 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
636 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
637 (It was only run once due to logging.)
638 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
639 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
640 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
641 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
642 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
643 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
644 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
645 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
646 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
647 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
651 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
655 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
658 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
659 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
663 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
666 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
667 flag with arch all/any packages.
668 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
669 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
670 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
671 situation. Closes: #540794
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
675 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
679 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
680 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
681 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
682 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
683 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
686 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
687 the default. Closes: #538201
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
692 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
696 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
697 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
698 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
699 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
700 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
702 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
703 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
704 * Above Closes: #491117
705 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
710 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
716 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
717 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
718 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
722 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
725 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
726 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
727 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
728 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
729 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
734 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
736 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
737 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
738 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
742 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
744 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
748 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
750 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
751 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
753 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
754 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
755 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
759 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
761 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
762 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
766 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
768 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
772 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
774 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
775 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
776 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
781 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
783 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
787 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
790 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
791 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
792 created by using `python' first during build and install.
794 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
799 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
801 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
805 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
807 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
808 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
812 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
814 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
818 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
820 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
824 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
826 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
827 contributed by Modestas Vainius
828 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
829 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
830 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
831 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
832 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
833 that support it. Closes: #480577
834 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
835 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
836 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
838 - Adds support for cmake.
839 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
840 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
842 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
844 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
845 that use them. The options are:
846 --sourcedir, --destdir
847 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
848 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
849 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
850 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
851 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
855 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
861 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
864 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
865 default. Closes: #537140
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
869 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
872 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
873 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
877 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
880 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
884 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
886 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
887 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
891 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
894 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
896 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
897 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
898 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
902 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
905 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
906 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
907 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
911 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
914 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
915 warning or deprecation message.
916 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
917 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
918 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
919 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
920 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
921 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
922 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
923 Closes: #534639, #357434
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
927 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
933 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
936 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
937 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
938 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
939 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
941 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
942 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
943 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
947 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
953 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
960 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
963 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
967 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
971 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
972 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
974 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
975 file support. Closes: #494914
976 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
980 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
983 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
984 parameters. Closes: #527256
985 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
986 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
987 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
991 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
995 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
996 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
997 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1001 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1004 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1005 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1006 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1010 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1013 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1014 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1016 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1017 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1018 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1022 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1026 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1030 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1033 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1034 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1035 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1036 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1041 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1047 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1050 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1051 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1052 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1053 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1054 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1056 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1057 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1058 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1059 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1060 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1061 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1065 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1068 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1069 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1070 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1071 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1072 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1074 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1078 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1080 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1084 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1086 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1087 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1088 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1089 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1090 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1091 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1092 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1093 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1094 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1095 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1096 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1100 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1102 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1103 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1105 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1106 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1107 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1108 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1110 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1111 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1115 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1117 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1118 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1119 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1120 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1121 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1122 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1123 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1125 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1126 that uses them. Affected options are:
1127 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1128 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1129 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1130 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1131 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1132 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1133 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1134 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1135 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1136 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1137 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1138 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1142 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1149 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1155 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1158 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1160 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1161 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1162 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1163 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1164 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1165 than the old method.
1166 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1168 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1169 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1170 rules (see bug #509756).
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1174 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1180 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1181 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1182 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1183 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1187 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1190 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1191 empty files. Closes: #490937
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1195 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1201 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1208 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1211 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1212 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1213 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1214 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1219 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1221 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1222 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1223 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1224 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1228 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1231 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1232 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1233 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1234 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1235 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1239 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1246 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1249 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1250 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1251 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1252 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1253 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1254 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1255 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1256 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1257 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1261 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1264 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1265 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1266 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1267 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1269 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1270 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1271 breaking backwards compatibility.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1275 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1278 message in perl 5.10.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1282 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1288 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1291 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1295 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1298 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1302 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1305 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1306 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1307 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1308 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1309 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1310 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1311 logging by dh_listpackages.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1315 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1318 run and there are no packages of that type.
1319 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1320 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1321 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1322 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1324 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1325 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1329 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1332 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1333 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1337 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1340 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1341 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1343 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1344 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1345 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1346 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1347 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1348 planned but not yet implemented.)
1349 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1350 if the Makefile has such a target.
1351 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1352 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1353 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1354 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1355 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1356 but not yet implemented.)
1357 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1358 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1359 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1360 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1361 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1363 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1365 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1366 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1368 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1369 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1370 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1375 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1378 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1379 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1383 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1385 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1386 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1387 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1391 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1397 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1403 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1406 just those installed by the program.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1410 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1413 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1414 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1418 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1421 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1422 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1423 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1424 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1428 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1431 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1432 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1436 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1439 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1440 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1444 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1447 with policy. Closes: #461392
1448 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1449 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1450 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1451 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1452 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1456 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1459 Closes: #460340, #460351
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1463 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1466 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1467 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1468 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1469 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1473 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1476 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1477 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1478 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1479 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1480 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1481 package build directory won't work.
1482 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1483 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1484 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1485 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1486 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1487 mode. Closes: #459426
1488 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1493 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1496 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1500 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1504 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1505 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1506 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1507 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1508 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1509 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1513 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1516 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1517 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1518 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1519 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1523 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1526 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1527 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1528 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1529 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1530 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1534 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1537 debian/package.triggers files.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1541 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1544 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1548 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1551 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1552 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1553 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1554 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1559 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1562 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1566 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1569 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1570 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1572 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1577 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1581 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1582 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1583 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1587 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1594 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1601 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1604 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1606 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1607 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1608 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1610 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1611 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1612 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1616 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1619 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1620 * Update urls to web page.
1621 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1622 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1623 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1624 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1628 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1631 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1632 - typo in alternatives call
1633 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1635 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1636 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1640 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1643 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1648 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1654 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1660 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1663 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1665 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1666 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1667 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1668 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1669 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1670 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1671 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1672 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1673 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1674 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1675 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1679 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1682 package install. Closes: #415717
1683 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1684 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1685 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1686 script and then remove the python files.
1687 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1688 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1689 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1690 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1691 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1692 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1693 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1694 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1695 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1696 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1697 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1698 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1699 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1703 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Correct typo in french translation
1709 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1710 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1712 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1714 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1715 Closes: #406921, #381940
1716 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1718 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1719 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1720 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1721 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1722 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1723 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1724 specified). Closes: #381851
1725 * Misc minor changes.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1729 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1736 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1737 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1741 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1747 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1748 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1751 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1752 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1754 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1755 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1756 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1757 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1761 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1764 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1767 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1771 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1777 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1783 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1784 a difficult situation.
1785 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1786 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1787 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1788 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1789 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1790 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1791 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1792 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1793 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1794 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1798 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Non-maintainer upload.
1801 * Update of dh_python
1802 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1803 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1805 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1806 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1807 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1808 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1809 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1811 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1813 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Non-maintainer upload.
1816 * Update of dh_python
1817 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1818 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1819 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1820 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1821 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1822 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1823 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1824 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1825 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1826 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1828 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1829 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1830 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1831 the not too-distant future).
1832 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1833 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1834 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1835 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1836 thus made the build fail.
1838 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1840 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Non-maintainer upload.
1843 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1845 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1847 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1850 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1851 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1852 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1853 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1854 package. Closes: #301424
1855 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1856 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1857 fonts). Closes: #372686
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1861 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1867 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1868 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1869 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1870 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1871 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1872 above, but already depends on that.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1876 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1879 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1880 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1881 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1882 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1883 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1887 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1893 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1899 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1900 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1904 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1907 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1911 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1915 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1916 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1917 new version (0.24.1).
1918 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1919 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1922 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1923 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1924 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1925 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1926 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1927 new directory on their own.
1928 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1929 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1933 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1936 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1937 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1938 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1939 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1943 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1946 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1947 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1948 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1949 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1950 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1954 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1960 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1964 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1965 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1969 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1970 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1974 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1976 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1977 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1979 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1980 ignored. Closes: #337664
1982 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1987 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1993 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1998 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1999 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2000 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2001 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2002 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2003 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2004 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2008 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2011 version. Closes: #350607
2012 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2013 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2014 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2015 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2019 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2022 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2023 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2024 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2028 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2035 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2041 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2044 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2048 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2051 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2052 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2053 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2054 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2055 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2056 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2060 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2063 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2064 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2069 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2072 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2076 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2079 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2083 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2086 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2087 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2088 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2089 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2090 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2091 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2095 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2099 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2100 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2101 link. Closes: #346405
2102 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2104 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2105 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2106 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2107 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2108 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2109 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2110 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2114 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2121 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2127 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2130 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2134 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2137 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2142 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2146 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2147 installed. Closes: #342033
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2151 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2154 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2155 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2156 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2161 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2167 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2173 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2177 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2178 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2179 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2183 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2186 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2191 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2198 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2204 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2207 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2208 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2209 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2210 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2211 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2212 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2213 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2215 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2219 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2222 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2223 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2227 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2230 in standard man dirs.
2231 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2235 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2241 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2244 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2249 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2256 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2263 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2266 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2267 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2271 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2274 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2275 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2276 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2278 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2280 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2286 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2292 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2295 mode. Closes: #324161
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2299 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2302 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2303 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2304 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2305 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2310 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2313 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2314 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2315 is necesary for sanity.
2316 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2317 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2322 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2324 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2325 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2329 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2332 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2336 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2345 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2346 released, so use at your own risk.
2347 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2348 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2350 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2351 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2352 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2353 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2354 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2355 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2356 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2357 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2358 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2359 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2360 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2361 including twice per config file line now..
2362 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2363 and simplfy the rules file.
2364 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2365 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2366 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2368 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2369 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2373 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2376 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2380 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2383 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2390 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2394 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2397 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2398 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2399 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2400 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2401 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2402 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2409 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2410 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2411 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2416 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2419 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2420 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2425 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2428 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2429 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2430 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2435 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2438 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2439 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2440 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2444 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2450 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2457 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2460 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2461 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2462 unknown. Closes: #282924
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2466 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2473 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Spanish man page updates.
2476 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2487 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2490 * dh_desktop: reindent
2491 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2492 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2496 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2504 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2508 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2510 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2514 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2517 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2518 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2522 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2528 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2534 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2541 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2544 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2548 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2551 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2552 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2553 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2554 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2555 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2556 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2558 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2559 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2560 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2561 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2562 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2563 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2564 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2565 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2566 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2567 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2568 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2569 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2570 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2571 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2572 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2573 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2577 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2584 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2587 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2591 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2594 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2598 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2601 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2605 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2608 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2612 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2618 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2624 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2630 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2633 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2634 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2635 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2639 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2642 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2646 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2649 but occasionally right and necessary.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2653 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2656 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2657 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2658 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2659 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2660 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2664 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2667 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2669 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2670 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2671 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2672 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2673 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2674 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2675 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2676 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2677 postinst scripts for udebs.
2678 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2682 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2685 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2687 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2688 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2692 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2698 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2705 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2712 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2715 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2719 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2722 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2726 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2729 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2732 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2733 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2737 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2743 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2746 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2750 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2753 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2754 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2755 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2757 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2759 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2760 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2761 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2765 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2768 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2773 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2776 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2777 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2778 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2783 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2789 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2795 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2798 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2799 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2800 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2801 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2802 associated -dbg packages.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2806 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2809 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2813 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2816 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2820 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2823 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2827 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2830 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2835 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2838 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2842 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2845 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2850 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2853 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2857 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2861 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2862 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2863 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2864 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2865 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2866 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2867 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2868 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2869 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2870 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2874 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2877 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2882 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2885 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2886 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2890 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2893 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2894 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2899 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2902 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2906 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2909 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2913 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2916 out section number. Closes: #204731
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2920 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2927 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2933 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2939 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2942 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2943 removal. Closes: #204286
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2947 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2950 renaming. Closes: #203548
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2954 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2957 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2958 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2962 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2968 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2974 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2980 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2983 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2984 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2985 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2989 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2992 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2993 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2997 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3003 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3010 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3013 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3018 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3021 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3025 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3028 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3030 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3031 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3035 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3038 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3043 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3046 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3050 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3056 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3058 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3062 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3065 it break hard links (see #188663).
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3069 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3072 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3076 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3082 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3086 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3087 debconf-mergetemplates
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3091 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3094 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3098 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3101 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3105 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3108 * Update debhelper(1).
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3112 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3115 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3116 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3117 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3118 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3119 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3123 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3126 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3127 the shell. Closes: #178524
3128 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3132 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3135 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3139 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3142 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3146 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3149 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3150 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3151 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3152 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3157 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3160 files from installation.
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3164 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3167 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3168 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3172 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3175 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3179 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3182 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3186 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3192 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3198 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3202 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3203 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3205 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3209 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3212 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3213 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3214 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3215 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3219 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3222 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3226 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3229 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3230 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3234 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3238 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3243 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3249 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3253 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3254 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3255 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3260 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3263 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3264 practice. Closes: #163303
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3268 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3274 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3281 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3284 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3286 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3287 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3288 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3289 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3290 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3294 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3297 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3302 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3308 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3315 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3318 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3323 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3329 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3335 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3341 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3348 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3351 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3352 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3353 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3354 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3359 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3365 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3372 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3375 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3376 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3380 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3383 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3384 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3385 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3386 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3387 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3391 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3394 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3396 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3401 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3404 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3408 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3411 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3412 right thing. Closes: #150644
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3416 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Stupid, evil typo.
3419 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3423 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3430 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3433 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3434 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3439 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3445 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3448 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3452 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3455 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3456 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3461 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3464 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3468 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3474 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3477 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3478 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3482 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3488 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Removing perl warning message.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3494 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3497 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3498 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3499 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3500 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3501 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3502 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3503 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3504 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3508 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3514 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3521 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3524 debconf-mergetemplate.
3525 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3526 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3530 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3533 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3534 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3535 dh_install, which ...
3536 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3537 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3538 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3539 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3540 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3541 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3542 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3543 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3544 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3545 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3546 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3547 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3548 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3549 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3550 other minor changes.
3551 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3552 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3553 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3554 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3555 course there's -X ..)
3556 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3557 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3558 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3560 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3561 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3562 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3563 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3564 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3569 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3575 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3578 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3582 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3588 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3594 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3600 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3606 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3609 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3610 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3611 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3612 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3614 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3615 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3619 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3625 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3628 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3632 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3635 upset. Closes: #131322
3637 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3639 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3642 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3643 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3644 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3645 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3646 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3647 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3648 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3649 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3650 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3651 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3652 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3653 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3654 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3655 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3656 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3658 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3662 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3665 - Better indenting of generated code.
3666 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3670 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3674 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3675 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3676 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3677 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3678 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3679 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3680 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3684 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3687 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3691 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3694 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3695 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3696 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3697 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3698 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3699 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3700 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3701 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3702 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3703 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3704 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3705 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3706 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3707 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3708 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3713 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3719 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3722 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3723 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3727 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3730 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3731 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3735 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3741 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3744 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3745 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3746 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3747 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3748 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3753 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3759 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3762 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3766 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3769 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3774 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3780 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3783 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3787 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3793 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3797 Also some indentation fixes.
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3801 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3804 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3805 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3806 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3807 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3808 Closes: #106514, #85520
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3812 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3818 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3824 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3830 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3836 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3842 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3845 change it in debhelper v4..
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3849 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3855 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3858 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3862 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3865 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3869 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3875 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3878 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3879 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3880 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3881 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3882 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3883 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3884 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3885 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3886 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3887 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3888 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3889 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3893 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3896 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3900 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3907 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3910 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3911 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3912 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3913 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3914 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3915 program those options go to. So, for example,
3916 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3917 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3918 something complex. Closes: #89311
3919 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3923 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3926 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3927 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3928 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3932 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3935 through loop. Closes: #98598
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3939 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * Missing semi-colon.
3942 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3943 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3947 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3950 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3951 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3952 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3956 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3959 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3960 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3964 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3967 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3971 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3974 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3975 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3979 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3982 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3983 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3984 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3988 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3991 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3992 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3993 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3997 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4000 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4004 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4010 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4016 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4022 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4028 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4031 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4035 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4038 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4039 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4040 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4041 followed. Closes: #85483
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4045 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4047 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4048 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4049 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4053 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4056 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4057 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4058 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4059 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4060 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4061 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4062 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4063 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4064 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4065 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4066 Closes: #88464, #77743
4067 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4068 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4069 us to deal with that gracefully.
4070 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4072 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4073 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4074 a while, Closes: #51225
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4078 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4084 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4087 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4091 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4095 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4100 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4103 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4104 don't make packlist files.
4105 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4106 debhelper coding standards.
4107 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4108 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4112 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4115 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4119 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4122 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4123 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4124 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4125 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4126 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4127 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4128 but is mildly deprecated.
4129 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4130 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4131 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4132 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4133 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4134 switching to statoverrides..
4135 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4136 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4137 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4138 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4139 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4140 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4142 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4143 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4144 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4145 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4146 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4147 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4148 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4149 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4150 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4152 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4153 variable names, pod man pages).
4154 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4155 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4156 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4157 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4158 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4159 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4160 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4164 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4170 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4177 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4179 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4180 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4184 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4186 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4187 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4188 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4192 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4194 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4195 they were previously ignored.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4199 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4201 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4202 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4206 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4208 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4209 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4210 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4214 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4216 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4220 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4222 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4223 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4227 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4229 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4230 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4231 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4232 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4233 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4234 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4235 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4236 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4237 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4238 it is an obsolete program.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4242 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4244 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4248 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4252 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4254 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4258 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4260 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4262 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4264 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4268 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4274 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * typo: Closes, #78567
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4280 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4286 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4292 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4295 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4296 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4297 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4298 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4299 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4303 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4306 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4311 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4314 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4315 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4316 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4317 backwards-compatibility.
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4321 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4324 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4325 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4326 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4327 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4328 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4329 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4331 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4332 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4333 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4335 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4337 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4338 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4339 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4340 should now be raised to severity important..
4341 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4342 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4346 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4349 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4354 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4360 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4366 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4372 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4379 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4382 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4383 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4384 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4385 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4389 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4395 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4398 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4399 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4400 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4401 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4402 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4403 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4408 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4411 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4415 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4421 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4424 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4429 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4432 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4433 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4434 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4435 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4439 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4443 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4446 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4449 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4450 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4453 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4455 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4456 the TODO entry about it.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4460 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4467 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4470 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4471 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4475 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4478 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4479 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4480 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4481 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4485 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4491 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4498 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4501 (this appears to be logal).
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4505 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4508 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4509 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4510 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4511 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4515 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4521 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4524 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4525 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4526 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4527 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4531 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4537 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4540 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4544 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4551 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4554 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4555 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4556 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4561 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4568 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4577 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4578 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4579 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4580 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4581 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4582 notice until v2 is complete.
4583 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4584 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4585 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4586 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4587 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4588 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4590 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4591 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4592 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4593 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4597 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4603 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4610 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4613 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4617 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4624 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4627 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4628 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4629 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4630 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4635 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4638 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4639 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4640 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4645 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4648 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4649 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4653 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4656 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4660 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4663 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4667 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4674 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4677 depend on the build and install targets.
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4681 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4684 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4688 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4695 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4701 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4707 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4710 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4711 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4712 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4713 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4714 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4715 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4717 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4718 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4719 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4720 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4721 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4722 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4723 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4727 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4733 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4739 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4742 right place. Closes: #55065
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4746 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4753 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4755 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4756 * Copyright date updates.
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4760 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4763 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4768 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4774 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4781 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4787 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4793 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4799 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4802 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4803 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4804 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4805 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4806 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4807 bits until all files have been registered.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4811 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * dh_installmanpages:
4814 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4815 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4816 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4817 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4818 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4819 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4820 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4821 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4822 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4823 otherwise change the result at all.
4825 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4826 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4827 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4828 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4829 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4834 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4840 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4843 act on files that don't exist.
4844 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4845 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4846 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4848 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4849 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4850 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4851 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4855 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4861 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4867 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4870 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4874 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4877 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4879 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4880 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4881 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4885 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4888 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4889 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4890 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4891 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4892 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4893 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4894 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4896 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4898 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4902 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4909 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4915 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4921 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4924 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4928 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4934 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4940 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4943 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4944 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4945 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4946 I made some changes, though:
4947 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4948 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4949 that is a clear violation of policy.
4950 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4951 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4952 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4953 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4954 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4955 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4956 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4957 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4958 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4960 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4964 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4970 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4973 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4977 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4980 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4981 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4986 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4988 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4992 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4994 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4999 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5001 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5002 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5003 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5004 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5005 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5006 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5007 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5008 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5012 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5014 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5018 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5020 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5022 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5023 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5027 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5033 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5036 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5040 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5043 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5044 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5048 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5050 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5055 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5059 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5063 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5066 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5067 for the dependancies to be generated.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5071 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5074 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5078 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5081 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5082 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5083 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5088 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5091 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5092 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5096 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5102 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5108 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5111 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5115 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5121 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5124 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5125 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5126 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5127 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5128 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5129 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5130 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5131 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5132 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5133 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5134 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5135 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5139 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5142 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5143 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5145 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5146 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5147 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5148 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5149 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5150 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5152 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5153 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5157 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5160 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5164 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5171 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5174 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5179 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5181 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5182 for building debhelper.
5183 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5187 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5194 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5197 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5201 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5204 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5205 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5206 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5207 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5208 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5209 it's always available.
5211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5213 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5215 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5216 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5217 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5218 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5222 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5225 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5226 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5230 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5236 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5239 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5243 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5249 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5252 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5253 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5254 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5258 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5261 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5266 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5269 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5270 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5272 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5273 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5277 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5283 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5289 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5292 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5296 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5299 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5300 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5302 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5306 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5309 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5310 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5311 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5315 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5318 things if CDPATH is set.
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5322 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5328 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5331 seems to make sense for the transition.
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5335 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5338 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5343 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5346 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5347 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5351 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5354 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5358 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5361 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5362 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5363 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5364 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5368 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5374 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5377 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5378 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5379 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5380 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5381 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5382 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5383 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5384 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5385 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5386 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5391 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5394 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5395 * README: mention doc/v2
5396 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5397 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5401 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5403 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5404 be using this script RSN.
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5408 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5411 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5412 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5413 more than 1 init script.
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5417 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5420 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5424 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * Changed perl version detection.
5427 * Changed call to find.
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5431 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5434 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5436 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5441 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * Really include dh_installpam.
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5447 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5450 * Wrote man page for same.
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5454 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5457 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5458 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5463 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5470 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5473 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5474 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5475 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5476 x bit was being set!
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5480 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5483 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5484 well. (Closes: 38900)
5486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5488 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5490 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5491 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5492 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5496 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5502 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5509 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5515 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5517 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5518 help from Julian Gilbey.
5519 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5520 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5521 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5522 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5523 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5524 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5525 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5530 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5536 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5543 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5549 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5555 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5558 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5562 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5565 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5569 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5572 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5576 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5582 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5584 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5585 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5589 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5595 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5601 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5604 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5605 may be deleted. (#35845)
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5609 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * Various man page enhancements.
5612 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5617 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5620 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5621 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5625 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5628 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5629 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5630 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5632 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5633 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5638 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5644 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5646 * Another very minor typo fix.
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5650 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * Very minor typo fix.
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5656 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5659 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5660 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5664 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5670 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5673 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5674 variables properly (#34850).
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5678 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5684 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5687 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5688 (automatically generated by build process).
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5692 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5694 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5698 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5701 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5702 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5704 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5708 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5711 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5715 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5717 * README: minor typo fix.
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5721 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5724 leave it at that. :-)
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5728 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5734 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5740 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5743 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5744 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5745 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5749 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5752 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5756 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5758 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5759 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5763 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5765 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5766 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5767 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5768 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5769 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5773 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5776 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5777 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5778 Craig Small for spotting this.
5780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5782 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5784 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5785 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5786 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5790 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5796 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5799 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5803 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5805 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5806 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5807 working on the last version of debhelper.
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5811 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5813 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5814 being made. (#23255)
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5818 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5824 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5826 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5827 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5831 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5834 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5835 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5836 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5837 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5841 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5844 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5845 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5846 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5847 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5849 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5850 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5852 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5857 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5863 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5865 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5869 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5872 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5873 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5874 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5875 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5876 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5877 suidregister actually supports it.
5878 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5879 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5883 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5885 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5890 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5893 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5894 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5895 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5896 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5897 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5898 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5899 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5903 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5905 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5906 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5910 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5912 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5913 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5914 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5915 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5916 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5920 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5922 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5923 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5925 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5926 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5927 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5928 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5929 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5930 effect, either. (#30118)
5932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5934 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5936 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5940 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5943 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5944 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5948 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5954 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5956 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5957 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5958 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5959 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5960 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5964 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5967 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5968 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5972 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5978 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5980 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5981 packages, painlessly.
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5985 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5987 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5991 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5993 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5997 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5999 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6003 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6005 * The perl conversion is complete.
6007 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6009 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6010 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6011 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6016 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6018 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6019 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6020 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6021 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6025 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6027 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6028 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6030 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6032 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6033 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6037 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6039 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6040 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6041 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6045 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6051 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6054 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6055 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6056 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6057 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6058 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6062 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6064 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6065 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6066 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6067 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6068 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6072 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6074 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6075 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6079 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6081 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6082 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6083 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6084 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6085 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6086 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6087 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6088 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6089 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6093 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6099 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6102 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6103 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6104 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6109 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6111 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6112 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6116 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6118 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6119 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6123 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6125 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6126 sections of shared libraries.
6127 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6128 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6129 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6130 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6131 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6132 things you don't want them to.
6133 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6134 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6138 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6140 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6141 shared libraries. (#26414)
6143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6145 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6147 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6148 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6149 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6150 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6154 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6156 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6158 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6160 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6161 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6162 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6163 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6164 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6168 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6170 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6171 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6175 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6177 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6178 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6179 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6184 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6186 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6187 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6191 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6193 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6194 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6195 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6196 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6197 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6198 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6200 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6201 remove debian/files properly.
6202 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6203 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6204 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6205 * Removed bogus menu file.
6207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6209 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6211 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6212 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6216 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6219 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6220 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6221 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6222 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6223 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6224 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6228 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6231 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6232 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6233 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6234 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6238 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6240 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6245 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6247 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6248 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6249 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6251 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6252 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6253 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6254 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6255 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6256 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6260 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6262 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6263 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6264 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6265 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6266 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6267 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6268 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6269 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6270 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6271 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6272 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6273 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6274 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6275 passed any switches.
6276 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6280 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6282 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6283 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6284 at all for a long while.
6285 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6286 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6287 large chunks in the process.
6288 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6289 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6290 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6295 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6297 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6298 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6300 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6305 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6307 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6308 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6309 that don't always have the same files in them.
6310 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6311 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6312 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6316 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6318 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6320 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6321 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6322 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6323 updating 27 man pages.
6324 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6325 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6326 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6327 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6328 programs act on. (#25247)
6330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6332 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6336 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6337 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6338 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6339 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6340 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6341 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6346 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6348 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6353 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6355 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6360 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6362 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6363 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6367 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6369 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6373 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6375 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6376 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6377 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6378 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6379 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6380 package by accident.
6381 * Is version 1.0 next?
6383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6385 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6387 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6388 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6389 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6393 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6395 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6396 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6397 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6398 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6399 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6400 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6402 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6407 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6409 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6410 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6411 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6415 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6417 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6418 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6422 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6424 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6425 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6426 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6431 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6433 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6437 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6440 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6441 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6446 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6448 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6452 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6454 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6455 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6456 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6457 past week. Thanks, guys!
6459 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6460 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6461 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6462 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6463 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6464 would do in the same situation.
6465 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6466 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6468 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6470 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6471 permissions changed.
6472 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6473 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6474 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6475 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6476 files are treated identically.
6477 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6478 * Minor man page fixes.
6479 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6480 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6481 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6485 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6487 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6488 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6489 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6490 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6491 use -X multiple times, too.
6492 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6493 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6497 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6499 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6500 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6501 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6505 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6507 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6508 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6512 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6514 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6515 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6516 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6517 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6518 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6519 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6520 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6521 shape if you're starting a new package.
6523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6525 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6527 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6528 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6532 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6534 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6535 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6536 because of missing symlinks.
6538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6540 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6542 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6546 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6548 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6549 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6550 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6551 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6552 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6553 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6555 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6556 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6560 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6562 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6563 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6564 to be changed after the fact :-)
6565 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6569 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6571 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6572 no version string after the -V.
6574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6576 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6578 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6579 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6584 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6586 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6587 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6591 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6593 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6594 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6595 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6596 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6597 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6598 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6599 I always welcome corrections!
6601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6603 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6605 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6609 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6611 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6612 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6613 * Documented this new switch.
6615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6617 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6619 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6620 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6621 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6622 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6623 no packages use the old behavior.
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6627 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6630 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6631 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6635 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6637 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6638 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6642 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6644 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6648 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6650 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6651 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6655 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6657 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6658 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6659 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6660 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6664 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6666 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6670 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6672 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6673 into the source package by accident.
6675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6677 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6679 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6680 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6681 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6682 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6683 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6684 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6685 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6690 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6692 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6694 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6695 inspired to implement some of it.
6696 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6700 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6702 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6703 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6707 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6709 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6710 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6711 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6715 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6717 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6718 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6719 have done.) (#17598)
6721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6723 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6725 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6729 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6731 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6735 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6737 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6738 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6742 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6744 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6745 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6746 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6750 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6752 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6753 argument processor in perl.
6754 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6755 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6756 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6757 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6761 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6763 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6764 type directories. (#16933)
6765 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6766 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6767 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6768 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6769 are supported. (#16935)
6770 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6775 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6777 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6778 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6782 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6784 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6786 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6787 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6788 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6789 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6790 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6791 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6795 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6797 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6798 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6799 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6801 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6802 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6803 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6804 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6805 a given package, or -i or -a.
6806 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6807 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6808 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6809 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6810 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6811 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6812 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6813 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6814 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6816 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6817 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6818 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6822 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6824 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6825 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6826 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6831 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6833 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6834 does not have a section.
6836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6838 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6840 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6841 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6842 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6843 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6847 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6849 * Fixed typo #16215.
6851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6853 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6855 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6856 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6857 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6858 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6859 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6860 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6865 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6867 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6868 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6869 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6870 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6875 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6877 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6881 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6883 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6887 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6889 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6890 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6891 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6892 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6893 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6894 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6895 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6899 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6901 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6905 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6907 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6908 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6912 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6914 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6915 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6916 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6917 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6921 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6923 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6924 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6928 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6930 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6934 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6936 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6937 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6941 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6943 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6944 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6948 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6950 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6954 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6956 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6957 postinst, postrm, etc.
6959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6961 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6963 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6967 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6969 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6970 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6971 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6972 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6973 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6974 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6978 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6980 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6981 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6982 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6986 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6988 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6989 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6993 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6995 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6996 installing package files into.
6997 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7002 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7004 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7006 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7010 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7012 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7016 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7018 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7019 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7023 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7025 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7026 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7027 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7028 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7029 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7033 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7035 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7036 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7037 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7038 multiple binary packages.
7039 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7040 should rebuild them with this version.
7041 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7045 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7047 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7048 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7052 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7054 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7055 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7059 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7061 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7062 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7063 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7064 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7065 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7066 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7067 debian/README.debian.
7068 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7069 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7070 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7071 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7072 in a few situations.)
7074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7076 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7078 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7082 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7084 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7088 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7090 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7091 * Fixed several man pages.
7093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7095 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7097 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7098 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7099 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7103 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7105 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7106 is ready for general use.
7107 * Added man pages for all commands.
7108 * Multiple binary package support.
7109 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7110 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7111 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7113 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7114 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7115 auto-installed as parameters.
7116 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7118 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7121 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7122 the package build directory it is to act on.
7123 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7124 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7125 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7129 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7131 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7132 ready to replace debstd.
7134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400