1 debhelper (5.0.55) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
4 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:11:06 -0400
8 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
12 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
13 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
14 * Typo. Closes: #441272
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
18 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
20 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
25 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
32 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
35 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
37 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
38 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
39 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
41 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
42 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
43 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
47 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
50 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
51 * Update urls to web page.
52 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
54 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
55 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
59 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
62 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
63 - typo in alternatives call
64 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
66 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
67 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
71 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
74 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
79 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
85 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
91 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
94 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
96 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
97 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
98 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
99 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
100 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
101 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
102 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
103 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
104 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
105 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
106 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
110 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
113 package install. Closes: #415717
114 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
115 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
116 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
117 script and then remove the python files.
118 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
119 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
120 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
121 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
122 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
123 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
124 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
125 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
126 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
127 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
128 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
129 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
130 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
134 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Correct typo in french translation
140 * Typo. Closes: #400571
141 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
143 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
145 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
146 Closes: #406921, #381940
147 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
149 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
150 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
151 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
152 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
153 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
154 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
155 specified). Closes: #381851
156 * Misc minor changes.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
160 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
167 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
168 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
172 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
175 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
178 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
179 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
182 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
183 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
185 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
186 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
187 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
188 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
192 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
195 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
198 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
202 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
208 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
214 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
215 a difficult situation.
216 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
217 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
218 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
219 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
220 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
221 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
222 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
223 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
224 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
225 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
229 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Non-maintainer upload.
232 * Update of dh_python
233 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
234 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
236 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
237 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
238 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
239 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
240 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
242 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
244 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Non-maintainer upload.
247 * Update of dh_python
248 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
249 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
250 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
251 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
252 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
253 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
254 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
255 specific python version. Closes: #373853
256 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
257 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
259 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
260 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
261 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
262 the not too-distant future).
263 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
264 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
265 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
266 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
267 thus made the build fail.
269 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
271 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Non-maintainer upload.
274 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
276 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
278 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
281 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
282 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
283 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
284 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
285 package. Closes: #301424
286 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
287 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
288 fonts). Closes: #372686
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
292 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
298 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
299 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
300 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
301 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
302 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
303 above, but already depends on that.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
307 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
310 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
311 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
312 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
313 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
314 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
318 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
324 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
330 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
331 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
335 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
338 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
342 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
345 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
346 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
347 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
348 new version (0.24.1).
349 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
350 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
353 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
354 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
355 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
356 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
357 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
358 new directory on their own.
359 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
360 * Fix broken directory removal code.
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
364 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
367 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
368 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
369 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
370 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
374 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
377 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
378 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
379 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
380 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
381 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
385 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
391 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Typo. Closes: #358904
395 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
396 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
400 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
401 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
405 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
407 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
408 || exit 0 instead of the intended
410 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
411 ignored. Closes: #337664
413 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
418 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
424 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
427 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
429 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
430 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
431 the dh_installdebconf manpage
432 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
433 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
434 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
435 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
439 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
441 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
442 version. Closes: #350607
443 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
444 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
445 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
446 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
450 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
453 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
454 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
455 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
459 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
466 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Minor bug fix from last release.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
472 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
475 language guessing. Closes: #193221
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
479 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
482 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
483 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
484 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
485 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
486 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
487 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
491 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
494 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
495 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
500 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
503 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
507 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
510 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
514 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
517 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
518 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
519 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
520 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
521 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
522 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
526 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
529 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
530 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
531 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
532 link. Closes: #346405
533 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
536 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
537 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
538 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
539 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
540 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
541 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
545 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
552 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
554 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
558 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
561 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
565 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
568 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
573 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
577 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
578 installed. Closes: #342033
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
582 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
585 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
586 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
587 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
592 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
598 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
604 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
608 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
609 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
610 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
614 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
617 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
622 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
629 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
635 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
637 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
638 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
639 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
640 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
641 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
642 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
643 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
644 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
646 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
650 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
653 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
654 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
658 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
661 in standard man dirs.
662 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
666 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
672 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
674 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
675 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
680 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
687 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
694 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
697 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
698 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
702 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
704 * NMU with maintainer approval.
705 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
706 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
707 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
709 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
711 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
717 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
723 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
726 mode. Closes: #324161
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
730 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
733 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
734 behavior change. Closes: #249815
735 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
736 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
741 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
744 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
745 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
746 is necesary for sanity.
747 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
748 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
753 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
755 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
756 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
760 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
763 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
767 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
773 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
775 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
776 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
777 released, so use at your own risk.
778 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
779 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
781 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
782 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
783 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
784 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
785 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
786 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
787 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
788 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
789 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
790 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
791 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
792 including twice per config file line now..
793 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
794 and simplfy the rules file.
795 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
796 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
797 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
799 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
800 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
804 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
806 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
807 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
811 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
814 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
818 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
820 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
821 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
825 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
828 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
829 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
830 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
831 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
832 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
833 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
837 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
840 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
841 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
842 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
847 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
850 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
851 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
856 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
858 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
859 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
860 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
861 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
866 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
869 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
870 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
871 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
875 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
881 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
883 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
888 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
891 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
892 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
893 unknown. Closes: #282924
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
897 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
904 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Spanish man page updates.
907 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
912 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
918 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
920 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
921 * dh_desktop: reindent
922 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
923 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
927 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
933 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
935 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
939 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
941 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
945 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
947 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
948 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
949 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
953 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
959 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
965 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
972 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
975 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
979 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
982 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
983 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
984 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
985 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
986 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
987 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
989 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
990 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
991 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
992 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
993 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
994 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
995 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
996 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
997 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
998 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
999 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1000 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1001 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1002 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1003 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1004 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1008 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1015 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1018 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1022 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1025 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1029 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1032 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1036 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1039 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1043 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1049 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1055 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1061 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1064 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1065 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1066 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1070 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1073 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1077 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1080 but occasionally right and necessary.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1084 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1087 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1088 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1089 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1090 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1091 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1095 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1098 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1100 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1101 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1102 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1103 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1104 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1105 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1106 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1107 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1108 postinst scripts for udebs.
1109 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1113 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1116 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1118 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1119 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1123 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1129 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1136 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1143 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1146 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1150 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1153 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1157 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1160 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1163 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1164 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1168 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1174 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1177 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1181 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1184 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1185 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1186 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1188 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1190 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1191 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1192 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1196 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1199 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1204 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1207 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1208 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1209 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1214 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1220 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1226 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1229 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1230 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1231 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1232 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1233 associated -dbg packages.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1237 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1240 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1244 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1247 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1251 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1254 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1258 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1261 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1266 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1269 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1273 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1276 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1281 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1284 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1288 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1292 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1293 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1294 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1295 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1296 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1297 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1298 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1299 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1300 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1301 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1305 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1308 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1313 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1316 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1317 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1321 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1324 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1325 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1330 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1333 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1337 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1340 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1344 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1347 out section number. Closes: #204731
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1351 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1358 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1364 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1370 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1373 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1374 removal. Closes: #204286
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1378 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1381 renaming. Closes: #203548
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1385 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1388 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1389 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1393 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1399 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1405 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1411 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1414 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1415 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1416 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1420 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1423 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1424 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1428 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1434 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1441 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1444 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1449 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1452 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1456 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1459 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1461 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1462 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1466 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1469 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1474 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1477 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1481 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1487 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1489 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1493 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1496 it break hard links (see #188663).
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1500 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1503 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1507 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1513 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1517 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1518 debconf-mergetemplates
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1522 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1525 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1529 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1532 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1536 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1539 * Update debhelper(1).
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1543 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1546 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1547 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1548 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1549 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1550 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1554 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1557 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1558 the shell. Closes: #178524
1559 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1563 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1566 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1570 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1573 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1577 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1580 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1581 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1582 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1583 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1588 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1591 files from installation.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1595 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1598 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1599 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1603 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1606 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1610 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1613 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1617 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1623 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1629 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1633 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1634 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1636 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1640 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1643 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1644 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1645 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1646 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1650 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1653 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1657 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1660 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1661 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1665 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1669 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1674 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1680 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1684 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1685 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1686 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1691 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1694 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1695 practice. Closes: #163303
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1699 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1705 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1712 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1715 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1717 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1718 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1719 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1720 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1721 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1725 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1728 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1733 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1739 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1746 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1749 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1754 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1760 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1766 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1772 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1779 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1782 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1783 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1784 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1785 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1790 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1796 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1803 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1806 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1807 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1811 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1814 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1815 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1816 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1817 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1818 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1822 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1825 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1827 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1832 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1835 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1839 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1842 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1843 right thing. Closes: #150644
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1847 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Stupid, evil typo.
1850 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1854 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1861 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1864 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1865 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1870 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1876 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1879 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1883 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1886 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1887 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1895 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1899 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1905 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1908 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1909 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1913 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1919 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Removing perl warning message.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1925 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1928 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1929 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1930 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1931 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1932 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1933 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1934 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1935 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1939 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1945 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1952 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1955 debconf-mergetemplate.
1956 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1957 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1961 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1964 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1965 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1966 dh_install, which ...
1967 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1968 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1969 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1970 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1971 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1972 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1973 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1974 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1975 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1976 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1977 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1978 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1979 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1980 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1981 other minor changes.
1982 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1983 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1984 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1985 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1986 course there's -X ..)
1987 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1988 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1989 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1991 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1992 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1993 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1994 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1995 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2000 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2006 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2009 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2013 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2019 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2025 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2031 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2037 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2040 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2041 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2042 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2043 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2045 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2046 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2050 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2056 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2059 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2063 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2066 upset. Closes: #131322
2068 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2070 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2073 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2074 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2075 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2076 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2077 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2078 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2079 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2080 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2081 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2082 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2083 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2084 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2085 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2086 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2087 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2089 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2093 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2096 - Better indenting of generated code.
2097 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2101 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2105 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2106 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2107 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2108 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2109 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2110 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2111 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2115 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2118 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2122 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2125 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2126 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2127 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2128 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2129 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2130 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2131 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2132 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2133 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2134 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2135 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2136 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2137 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2138 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2139 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2144 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2150 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2153 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2154 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2158 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2161 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2162 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2166 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2172 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2175 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2176 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2177 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2178 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2179 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2184 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2190 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2193 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2197 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2200 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2205 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2211 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2214 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2218 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2224 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2228 Also some indentation fixes.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2232 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2235 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2236 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2237 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2238 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2239 Closes: #106514, #85520
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2243 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2249 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2255 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2261 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2267 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2273 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2276 change it in debhelper v4..
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2280 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2286 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2289 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2293 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2296 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2300 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2306 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2309 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2310 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2311 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2312 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2313 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2314 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2315 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2316 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2317 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2318 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2319 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2320 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2324 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2327 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2331 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2338 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2341 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2342 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2343 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2344 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2345 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2346 program those options go to. So, for example,
2347 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2348 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2349 something complex. Closes: #89311
2350 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2354 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2357 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2358 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2359 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2363 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2366 through loop. Closes: #98598
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2370 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Missing semi-colon.
2373 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2374 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2378 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2381 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2382 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2383 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2387 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2390 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2391 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2395 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2398 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2402 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2405 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2406 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2410 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2413 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2414 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2415 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2419 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2422 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2423 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2424 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2428 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2431 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2435 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2441 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2447 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2453 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2459 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2462 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2466 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2469 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2470 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2471 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2472 followed. Closes: #85483
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2476 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2478 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2479 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2480 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2484 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2487 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2488 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2489 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2490 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2491 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2492 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2493 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2494 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2495 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2496 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2497 Closes: #88464, #77743
2498 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2499 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2500 us to deal with that gracefully.
2501 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2503 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2504 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2505 a while, Closes: #51225
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2509 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2515 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2518 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2522 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2526 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2531 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2534 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2535 don't make packlist files.
2536 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2537 debhelper coding standards.
2538 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2539 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2543 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2546 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2550 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2553 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2554 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2555 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2556 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2557 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2558 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2559 but is mildly deprecated.
2560 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2561 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2562 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2563 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2564 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2565 switching to statoverrides..
2566 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2567 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2568 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2569 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2570 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2571 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2573 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2574 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2575 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2576 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2577 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2578 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2579 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2580 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2581 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2583 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2584 variable names, pod man pages).
2585 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2586 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2587 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2588 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2589 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2590 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2591 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2595 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2601 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2608 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2611 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2615 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2617 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2618 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2619 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2623 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2625 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2626 they were previously ignored.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2630 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2632 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2633 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2637 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2639 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2640 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2641 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2645 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2647 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2651 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2653 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2654 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2658 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2660 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2661 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2662 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2663 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2664 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2665 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2666 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2667 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2668 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2669 it is an obsolete program.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2673 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2675 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2679 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2683 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2685 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2689 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2691 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2693 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2695 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2699 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2705 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * typo: Closes, #78567
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2711 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2717 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2723 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2726 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2727 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2728 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2729 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2730 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2734 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2737 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2742 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2745 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2746 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2747 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2748 backwards-compatability.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2752 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2755 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2756 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2757 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2758 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2759 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2760 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2762 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2763 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2764 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2766 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2768 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2769 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2770 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2771 should now be raised to severity important..
2772 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2773 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2777 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2780 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2785 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2791 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2797 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2803 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2810 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2813 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2814 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2815 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2816 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2820 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2826 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2829 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2830 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2831 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2832 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2833 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2834 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2839 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2842 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2846 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2852 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2855 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2860 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2863 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2864 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2865 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2866 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2870 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2874 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2877 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2880 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2881 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2884 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2886 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2887 the TODO entry about it.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2891 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2898 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2901 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2902 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2906 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2909 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2910 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2911 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2912 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2916 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2922 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2929 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2932 (this appears to be logal).
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2936 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2939 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2940 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2941 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2942 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2946 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2952 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2955 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2956 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2957 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2958 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2962 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2968 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2971 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2975 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2982 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2985 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2986 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2987 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2992 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2999 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3005 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3008 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3009 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3010 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3011 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3012 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3013 notice until v2 is complete.
3014 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3015 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3016 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3017 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3018 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3019 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3021 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3022 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3023 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3024 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3028 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3034 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3041 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3044 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3048 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3055 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3058 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3059 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3060 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3061 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3066 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3069 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3070 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3071 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3076 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3079 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3080 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3084 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3087 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3091 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3094 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3098 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3105 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3108 depend on the build and install targets.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3112 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3115 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3119 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3126 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3132 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3138 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3141 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3142 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3143 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3144 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3145 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3146 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3148 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3149 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3150 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3151 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3152 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3153 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3154 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3158 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3164 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3170 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3173 right place. Closes: #55065
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3177 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3184 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3187 * Copyright date updates.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3191 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3194 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3199 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3205 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3212 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3218 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3224 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3230 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3233 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3234 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3235 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3236 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3237 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3238 bits until all files have been registered.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3242 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * dh_installmanpages:
3245 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3246 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3247 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3248 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3249 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3250 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3251 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3252 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3253 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3254 otherwise change the result at all.
3256 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3257 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3258 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3259 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3260 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3265 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3271 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3274 act on files that don't exist.
3275 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3276 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3277 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3279 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3280 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3281 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3282 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3286 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3292 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3298 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3301 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3305 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3308 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3310 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3311 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3312 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3316 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3319 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3320 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3321 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3322 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3323 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3324 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3325 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3327 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3329 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3333 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3340 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3346 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3352 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3355 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3359 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3365 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3371 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3374 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3375 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3376 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3377 I made some changes, though:
3378 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3379 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3380 that is a clear violation of policy.
3381 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3382 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3383 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3384 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3385 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3386 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3387 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3388 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3389 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3391 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3395 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3401 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3404 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3408 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3411 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3412 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3417 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3423 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3430 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3433 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3434 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3435 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3436 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3437 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3438 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3439 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3443 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3449 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3453 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3454 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3458 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3464 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3467 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3471 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3474 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3475 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3479 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3481 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3486 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3490 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3494 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3497 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3498 for the dependancies to be generated.
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3502 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3505 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3509 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3512 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3513 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3514 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3519 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3522 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3523 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3527 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3533 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3539 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3542 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3546 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3552 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3555 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3556 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3557 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3558 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3559 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3560 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3561 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3562 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3563 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3564 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3565 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3566 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3570 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3573 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3574 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3576 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3577 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3578 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3579 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3580 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3581 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3583 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3584 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3588 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3591 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3595 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3602 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3605 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3610 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3613 for building debhelper.
3614 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3618 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3625 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3628 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3632 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3635 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3636 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3637 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3638 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3639 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3640 it's always available.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3644 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3647 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3648 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3649 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3653 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3656 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3657 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3661 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3667 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3670 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3674 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3680 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3683 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3684 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3685 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3689 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3692 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3697 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3700 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3701 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3703 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3704 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3708 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3714 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3720 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3723 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3727 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3730 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3731 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3733 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3737 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3740 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3741 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3742 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3746 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3749 things if CDPATH is set.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3753 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3759 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3762 seems to make sense for the transition.
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3766 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3769 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3774 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3777 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3778 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3782 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3785 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3789 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3792 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3793 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3794 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3795 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3799 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3805 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3808 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3809 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3810 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3811 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3812 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3813 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3814 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3815 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3816 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3817 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3822 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3825 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3826 * README: mention doc/v2
3827 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3828 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3832 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3834 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3835 be using this script RSN.
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3839 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3842 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3843 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3844 more than 1 init script.
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3848 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3851 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3855 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Changed perl version detection.
3858 * Changed call to find.
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3862 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3865 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3867 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3872 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * Really include dh_installpam.
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3878 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3881 * Wrote man page for same.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3885 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3888 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3889 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3894 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3901 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3904 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3905 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3906 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3907 x bit was being set!
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3911 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3914 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3915 well. (Closes: 38900)
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3919 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3922 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3923 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3927 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3933 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3940 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3946 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3949 help from Julian Gilbey.
3950 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3951 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3952 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3953 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3954 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3955 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3956 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3961 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3967 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3974 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3980 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3986 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3989 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3993 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3996 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4000 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4003 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4007 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4013 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4016 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4020 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4026 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4032 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4035 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4036 may be deleted. (#35845)
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4040 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Various man page enhancements.
4043 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4048 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4051 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4052 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4056 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4059 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4060 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4061 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4063 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4064 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4069 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4075 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * Another very minor typo fix.
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4081 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * Very minor typo fix.
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4087 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4090 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4091 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4095 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4101 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4104 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4105 variables properly (#34850).
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4109 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4115 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4118 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4119 (automatically generated by build process).
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4123 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4125 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4129 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4132 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4133 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4135 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4139 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4142 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4146 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * README: minor typo fix.
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4152 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4155 leave it at that. :-)
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4159 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4165 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4171 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4173 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4174 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4175 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4176 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4180 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4183 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4187 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4190 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4194 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4197 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4198 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4199 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4200 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4204 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4207 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4208 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4209 Craig Small for spotting this.
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4213 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4216 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4217 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4221 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4227 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4230 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4234 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4236 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4237 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4238 working on the last version of debhelper.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4242 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4245 being made. (#23255)
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4249 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4255 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4258 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4262 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4265 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4266 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4267 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4268 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4272 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4275 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4276 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4277 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4278 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4280 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4281 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4283 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4288 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4294 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4300 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4303 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4304 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4305 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4306 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4307 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4308 suidregister actually supports it.
4309 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4310 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4314 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4321 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4324 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4325 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4326 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4327 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4328 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4329 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4330 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4334 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4336 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4337 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4341 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4344 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4345 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4346 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4347 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4351 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4354 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4356 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4357 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4358 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4359 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4360 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4361 effect, either. (#30118)
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4365 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4371 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4374 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4375 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4379 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4385 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4388 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4389 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4390 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4391 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4395 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4398 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4399 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4403 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4409 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4412 packages, painlessly.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4416 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4422 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4428 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4434 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * The perl conversion is complete.
4438 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4440 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4441 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4442 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4447 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4450 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4451 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4452 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4456 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4459 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4461 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4463 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4464 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4468 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4471 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4472 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4476 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4482 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4485 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4486 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4487 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4488 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4489 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4493 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4496 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4497 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4498 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4499 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4503 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4506 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4510 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4513 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4514 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4515 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4516 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4517 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4518 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4519 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4520 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4524 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4530 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4533 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4534 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4535 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4540 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4543 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4547 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4550 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4554 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4557 sections of shared libraries.
4558 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4559 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4560 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4561 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4562 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4563 things you don't want them to.
4564 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4565 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4569 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4572 shared libraries. (#26414)
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4576 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4578 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4579 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4580 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4581 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4585 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4589 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4591 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4592 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4593 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4594 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4595 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4599 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4602 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4606 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4609 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4610 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4615 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4618 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4622 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4625 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4626 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4627 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4628 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4629 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4631 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4632 remove debian/files properly.
4633 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4634 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4635 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4636 * Removed bogus menu file.
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4640 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4643 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4647 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4650 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4651 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4652 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4653 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4654 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4655 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4659 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4662 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4663 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4664 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4665 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4669 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4676 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4679 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4680 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4682 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4683 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4684 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4685 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4686 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4687 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4691 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4694 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4695 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4696 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4697 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4698 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4699 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4700 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4701 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4702 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4703 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4704 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4705 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4706 passed any switches.
4707 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4711 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4714 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4715 at all for a long while.
4716 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4717 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4718 large chunks in the process.
4719 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4720 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4721 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4726 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4729 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4731 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4736 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4739 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4740 that don't always have the same files in them.
4741 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4742 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4743 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4747 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4751 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4752 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4753 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4754 updating 27 man pages.
4755 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4756 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4757 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4758 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4759 programs act on. (#25247)
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4763 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4767 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4768 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4769 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4770 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4771 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4772 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4777 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4784 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4791 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4794 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4798 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4804 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4807 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4808 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4809 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4810 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4811 package by accident.
4812 * Is version 1.0 next?
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4816 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4819 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4820 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4824 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4827 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4828 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4829 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4830 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4831 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4833 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4838 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4841 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4842 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4846 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4849 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4853 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4855 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4856 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4857 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4862 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4868 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4871 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4872 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4877 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4883 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4886 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4887 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4888 past week. Thanks, guys!
4890 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4891 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4892 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4893 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4894 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4895 would do in the same situation.
4896 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4897 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4899 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4901 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4902 permissions changed.
4903 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4904 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4905 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4906 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4907 files are treated identically.
4908 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4909 * Minor man page fixes.
4910 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4911 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4912 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4916 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4919 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4920 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4921 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4922 use -X multiple times, too.
4923 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4924 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4928 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4931 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4932 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4936 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4939 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4943 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4946 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4947 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4948 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4949 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4950 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4951 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4952 shape if you're starting a new package.
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4956 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4958 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4959 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4963 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4966 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4967 because of missing symlinks.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4971 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4977 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4980 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4981 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4982 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4983 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4984 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4986 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4987 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4991 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4993 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4994 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4995 to be changed after the fact :-)
4996 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5000 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5002 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5003 no version string after the -V.
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5007 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5009 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5010 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5015 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5018 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5022 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5025 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5026 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5027 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5028 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5029 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5030 I always welcome corrections!
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5034 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5040 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5043 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5044 * Documented this new switch.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5048 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5051 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5052 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5053 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5054 no packages use the old behavior.
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5058 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5061 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5062 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5066 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5069 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5073 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5075 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5079 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5082 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5086 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5089 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5090 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5091 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5095 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5101 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5104 into the source package by accident.
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5108 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5111 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5112 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5113 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5114 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5115 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5116 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5121 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5125 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5126 inspired to implement some of it.
5127 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5131 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5134 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5138 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5141 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5142 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5146 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5149 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5150 have done.) (#17598)
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5154 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5160 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5166 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5169 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5173 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5176 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5177 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5181 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5184 argument processor in perl.
5185 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5186 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5187 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5188 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5192 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5195 type directories. (#16933)
5196 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5197 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5198 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5199 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5200 are supported. (#16935)
5201 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5206 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5209 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5213 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5215 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5217 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5218 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5219 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5220 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5221 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5222 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5226 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5229 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5230 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5232 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5233 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5234 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5235 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5236 a given package, or -i or -a.
5237 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5238 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5239 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5240 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5241 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5242 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5243 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5244 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5245 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5247 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5248 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5249 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5253 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5256 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5257 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5262 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5265 does not have a section.
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5269 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5272 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5273 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5274 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5278 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * Fixed typo #16215.
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5284 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5287 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5288 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5289 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5290 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5291 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5296 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5299 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5300 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5301 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5306 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5312 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5318 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5321 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5322 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5323 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5324 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5325 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5326 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5330 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5336 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5339 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5343 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5346 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5347 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5348 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5352 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5355 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5359 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5365 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5368 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5372 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5375 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5379 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5385 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5388 postinst, postrm, etc.
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5392 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5394 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5398 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5401 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5402 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5403 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5404 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5405 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5409 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5412 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5413 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5417 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5420 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5424 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5427 installing package files into.
5428 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5433 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5437 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5441 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5447 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5450 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5454 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5457 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5458 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5459 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5460 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5464 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5466 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5467 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5468 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5469 multiple binary packages.
5470 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5471 should rebuild them with this version.
5472 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5476 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5479 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5483 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5486 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5490 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5493 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5494 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5495 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5496 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5497 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5498 debian/README.debian.
5499 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5500 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5501 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5502 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5503 in a few situations.)
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5507 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5513 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5519 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5522 * Fixed several man pages.
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5526 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5529 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5530 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5534 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5537 is ready for general use.
5538 * Added man pages for all commands.
5539 * Multiple binary package support.
5540 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5541 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5542 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5544 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5545 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5546 auto-installed as parameters.
5547 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5549 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5552 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5553 the package build directory it is to act on.
5554 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5555 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5556 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5560 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5562 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5563 ready to replace debstd.
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400