1 debhelper (6.0.13) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
4 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
5 * Record debhelper commands that successfully finish in a per-package log
7 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
8 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
9 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
10 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
11 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
12 planned but not yet implemented.)
13 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
14 if the Makefile has such a target.
15 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
16 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
17 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
18 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
19 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
20 but not yet implemented.)
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:54:20 -0400
24 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
26 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
27 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
28 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
32 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
34 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
35 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
36 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
40 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
42 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
46 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
52 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
55 just those installed by the program.
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
59 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
62 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
63 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
67 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
70 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
71 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
72 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
73 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
77 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
80 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
81 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
85 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
88 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
89 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
93 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
96 with policy. Closes: #461392
97 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
98 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
99 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
100 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
101 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
105 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
108 Closes: #460340, #460351
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
112 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
114 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
115 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
116 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
117 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
118 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
122 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
124 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
125 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
126 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
127 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
128 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
129 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
130 package build directory won't work.
131 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
132 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
133 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
134 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
135 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
136 mode. Closes: #459426
137 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
142 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
145 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
149 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
153 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
154 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
155 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
156 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
157 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
158 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
162 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
165 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
166 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
167 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
168 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
172 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
175 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
176 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
177 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
178 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
179 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
183 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
186 debian/package.triggers files.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
190 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
193 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
197 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
200 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
201 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
202 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
203 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
208 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
211 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
215 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
218 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
219 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
221 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
226 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
230 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
231 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
232 * Typo. Closes: #441272
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
236 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
243 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
245 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
250 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
253 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
255 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
256 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
257 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
259 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
260 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
261 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
265 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
267 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
268 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
269 * Update urls to web page.
270 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
272 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
273 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
277 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
280 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
281 - typo in alternatives call
282 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
284 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
285 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
289 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
292 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
297 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
303 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
305 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
309 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
312 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
314 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
315 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
316 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
317 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
318 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
319 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
320 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
321 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
322 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
323 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
324 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
328 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
331 package install. Closes: #415717
332 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
333 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
334 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
335 script and then remove the python files.
336 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
337 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
338 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
339 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
340 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
341 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
342 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
343 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
344 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
345 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
346 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
347 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
348 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
352 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Correct typo in french translation
358 * Typo. Closes: #400571
359 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
361 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
363 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
364 Closes: #406921, #381940
365 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
367 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
368 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
369 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
370 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
371 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
372 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
373 specified). Closes: #381851
374 * Misc minor changes.
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
378 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
385 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
386 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
390 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
393 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
396 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
397 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
400 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
401 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
403 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
404 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
405 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
406 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
410 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
413 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
416 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
420 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
422 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
426 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
432 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
433 a difficult situation.
434 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
435 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
436 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
437 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
438 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
439 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
440 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
441 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
442 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
443 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
447 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Non-maintainer upload.
450 * Update of dh_python
451 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
452 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
454 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
455 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
456 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
457 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
458 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
460 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
462 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Non-maintainer upload.
465 * Update of dh_python
466 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
467 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
468 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
469 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
470 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
471 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
472 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
473 specific python version. Closes: #373853
474 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
475 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
477 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
478 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
479 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
480 the not too-distant future).
481 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
482 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
483 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
484 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
485 thus made the build fail.
487 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
489 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Non-maintainer upload.
492 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
494 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
496 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
499 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
500 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
501 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
502 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
503 package. Closes: #301424
504 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
505 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
506 fonts). Closes: #372686
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
510 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
516 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
517 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
518 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
519 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
520 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
521 above, but already depends on that.
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
525 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
528 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
529 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
530 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
531 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
532 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
536 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
542 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
548 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
549 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
553 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
556 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
560 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
563 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
564 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
565 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
566 new version (0.24.1).
567 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
568 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
571 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
572 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
573 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
574 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
575 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
576 new directory on their own.
577 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
578 * Fix broken directory removal code.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
582 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
585 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
586 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
587 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
588 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
592 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
595 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
596 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
597 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
598 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
599 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
603 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
609 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Typo. Closes: #358904
613 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
614 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
618 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
619 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
623 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
625 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
626 || exit 0 instead of the intended
628 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
629 ignored. Closes: #337664
631 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
636 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
638 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
642 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
647 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
648 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
649 the dh_installdebconf manpage
650 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
651 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
652 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
653 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
657 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
660 version. Closes: #350607
661 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
662 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
663 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
664 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
668 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
671 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
672 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
673 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
677 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
684 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Minor bug fix from last release.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
690 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
693 language guessing. Closes: #193221
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
697 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
700 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
701 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
702 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
703 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
704 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
705 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
709 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
712 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
713 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
718 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
721 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
725 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
728 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
732 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
735 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
736 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
737 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
738 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
739 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
740 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
744 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
747 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
748 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
749 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
750 link. Closes: #346405
751 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
754 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
755 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
756 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
757 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
758 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
759 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
763 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
770 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
772 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
776 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
779 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
783 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
786 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
791 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
795 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
796 installed. Closes: #342033
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
800 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
803 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
804 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
805 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
810 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
816 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
818 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
822 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
826 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
827 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
828 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
832 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
835 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
840 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
847 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
853 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
855 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
856 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
857 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
858 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
859 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
860 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
861 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
862 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
864 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
868 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
871 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
872 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
876 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
879 in standard man dirs.
880 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
884 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
886 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
890 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
893 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
898 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
905 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
912 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
915 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
916 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
920 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
922 * NMU with maintainer approval.
923 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
924 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
925 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
927 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
929 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
935 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
941 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
944 mode. Closes: #324161
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
948 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
951 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
952 behavior change. Closes: #249815
953 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
954 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
959 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
962 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
963 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
964 is necesary for sanity.
965 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
966 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
971 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
973 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
974 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
978 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
980 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
981 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
985 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
991 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
994 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
995 released, so use at your own risk.
996 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
997 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
999 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1000 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1001 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1002 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1003 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1004 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1005 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1006 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1007 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1008 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1009 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1010 including twice per config file line now..
1011 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1012 and simplfy the rules file.
1013 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1014 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1015 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1017 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1018 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1022 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1025 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1029 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1032 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1036 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1039 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1043 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1046 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1047 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1048 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1049 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1050 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1051 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1055 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1058 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1059 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1060 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1065 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1068 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1069 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1074 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1077 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1078 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1079 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1084 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1087 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1088 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1089 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1093 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1099 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1106 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1109 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1110 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1111 unknown. Closes: #282924
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1115 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1122 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Spanish man page updates.
1125 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1130 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1136 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1139 * dh_desktop: reindent
1140 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1141 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1145 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1151 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1153 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1157 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1159 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1163 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1166 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1167 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1171 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1177 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1183 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1190 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1193 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1197 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1200 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1201 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1202 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1203 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1204 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1205 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1207 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1208 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1209 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1210 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1211 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1212 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1213 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1214 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1215 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1216 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1217 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1218 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1219 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1220 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1221 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1222 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1226 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1233 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1236 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1240 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1243 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1247 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1250 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1254 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1257 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1261 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1267 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1273 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1279 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1282 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1283 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1284 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1288 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1291 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1295 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1298 but occasionally right and necessary.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1302 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1305 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1306 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1307 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1308 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1309 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1313 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1316 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1318 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1319 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1320 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1321 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1322 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1323 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1324 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1325 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1326 postinst scripts for udebs.
1327 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1331 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1334 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1336 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1337 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1341 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1347 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1354 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1361 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1364 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1368 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1371 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1375 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1378 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1381 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1382 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1386 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1392 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1395 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1399 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1402 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1403 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1404 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1406 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1408 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1409 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1410 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1414 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1417 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1422 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1425 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1426 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1427 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1432 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1438 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1444 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1447 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1448 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1449 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1450 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1451 associated -dbg packages.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1455 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1458 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1462 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1465 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1469 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1472 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1476 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1479 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1484 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1487 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1491 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1494 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1499 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1502 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1506 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1510 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1511 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1512 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1513 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1514 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1515 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1516 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1517 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1518 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1519 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1523 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1526 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1531 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1534 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1535 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1539 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1542 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1543 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1548 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1551 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1555 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1558 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1562 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1565 out section number. Closes: #204731
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1569 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1576 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1582 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1588 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1591 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1592 removal. Closes: #204286
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1596 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1599 renaming. Closes: #203548
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1603 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1606 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1607 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1611 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1617 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1623 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1629 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1632 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1633 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1634 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1638 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1641 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1642 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1646 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1652 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1659 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1662 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1667 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1670 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1674 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1677 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1679 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1680 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1684 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1687 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1692 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1695 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1699 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1705 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1707 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1711 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1714 it break hard links (see #188663).
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1718 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1721 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1725 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1731 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1735 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1736 debconf-mergetemplates
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1740 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1743 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1747 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1750 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1754 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1757 * Update debhelper(1).
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1761 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1764 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1765 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1766 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1767 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1768 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1772 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1775 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1776 the shell. Closes: #178524
1777 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1781 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1784 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1788 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1791 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1795 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1798 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1799 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1800 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1801 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1806 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1809 files from installation.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1813 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1816 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1817 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1821 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1824 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1828 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1831 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1835 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1841 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1847 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1851 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1852 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1854 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1858 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1861 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1862 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1863 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1864 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1868 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1871 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1875 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1878 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1879 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1883 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1887 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1898 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1902 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1903 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1904 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1909 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1912 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1913 practice. Closes: #163303
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1917 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1923 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1930 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1933 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1935 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1936 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1937 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1938 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1939 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1943 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1946 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1951 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1957 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1964 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1967 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1972 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1978 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1984 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1990 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1997 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2000 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2001 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2002 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2003 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2008 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2024 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2025 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2029 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2032 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2033 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2034 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2035 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2036 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2040 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2043 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2045 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2050 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2053 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2057 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2060 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2061 right thing. Closes: #150644
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2065 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Stupid, evil typo.
2068 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2072 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2082 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2083 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2088 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2097 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2101 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2104 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2105 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2110 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2113 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2117 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2123 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2126 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2127 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2131 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Removing perl warning message.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2143 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2146 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2147 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2148 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2149 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2150 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2151 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2152 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2153 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2157 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2163 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2170 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2173 debconf-mergetemplate.
2174 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2175 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2179 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2182 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2183 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2184 dh_install, which ...
2185 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2186 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2187 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2188 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2189 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2190 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2191 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2192 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2193 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2194 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2195 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2196 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2197 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2198 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2199 other minor changes.
2200 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2201 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2202 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2203 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2204 course there's -X ..)
2205 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2206 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2207 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2209 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2210 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2211 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2212 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2213 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2218 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2224 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2227 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2231 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2237 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2243 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2249 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2255 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2258 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2259 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2260 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2261 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2263 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2264 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2268 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2274 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2277 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2281 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2284 upset. Closes: #131322
2286 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2288 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2291 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2292 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2293 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2294 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2295 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2296 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2297 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2298 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2299 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2300 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2301 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2302 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2303 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2304 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2305 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2307 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2311 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2314 - Better indenting of generated code.
2315 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2319 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2323 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2324 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2325 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2326 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2327 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2328 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2329 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2333 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2336 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2340 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2343 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2344 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2345 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2346 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2347 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2348 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2349 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2350 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2351 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2352 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2353 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2354 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2355 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2356 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2357 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2362 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2368 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2371 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2372 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2376 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2379 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2380 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2384 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2390 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2393 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2394 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2395 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2396 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2397 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2402 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2408 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2411 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2415 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2418 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2423 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2429 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2432 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2436 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2442 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2446 Also some indentation fixes.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2450 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2453 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2454 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2455 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2456 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2457 Closes: #106514, #85520
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2461 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2467 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2473 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2479 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2485 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2491 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2494 change it in debhelper v4..
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2498 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2504 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2507 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2511 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2514 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2518 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2524 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2527 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2528 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2529 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2530 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2531 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2532 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2533 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2534 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2535 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2536 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2537 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2538 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2542 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2545 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2549 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2556 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2559 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2560 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2561 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2562 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2563 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2564 program those options go to. So, for example,
2565 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2566 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2567 something complex. Closes: #89311
2568 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2572 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2575 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2576 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2577 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2581 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2584 through loop. Closes: #98598
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2588 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Missing semi-colon.
2591 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2592 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2596 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2599 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2600 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2601 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2605 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2608 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2609 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2613 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2616 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2620 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2623 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2624 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2628 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2631 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2632 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2633 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2637 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2640 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2641 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2642 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2646 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2649 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2653 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2659 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2665 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2671 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2677 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2680 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2684 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2687 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2688 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2689 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2690 followed. Closes: #85483
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2694 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2696 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2697 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2698 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2702 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2705 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2706 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2707 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2708 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2709 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2710 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2711 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2712 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2713 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2714 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2715 Closes: #88464, #77743
2716 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2717 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2718 us to deal with that gracefully.
2719 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2721 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2722 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2723 a while, Closes: #51225
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2727 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2733 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2736 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2740 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2744 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2749 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2752 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2753 don't make packlist files.
2754 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2755 debhelper coding standards.
2756 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2757 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2761 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2764 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2768 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2771 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2772 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2773 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2774 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2775 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2776 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2777 but is mildly deprecated.
2778 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2779 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2780 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2781 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2782 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2783 switching to statoverrides..
2784 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2785 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2786 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2787 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2788 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2789 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2791 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2792 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2793 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2794 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2795 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2796 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2797 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2798 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2799 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2801 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2802 variable names, pod man pages).
2803 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2804 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2805 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2806 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2807 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2808 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2809 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2813 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2819 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2826 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2829 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2833 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2835 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2836 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2837 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2841 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2843 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2844 they were previously ignored.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2848 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2850 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2851 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2855 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2857 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2858 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2859 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2863 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2865 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2869 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2871 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2872 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2876 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2878 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2879 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2880 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2881 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2882 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2883 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2884 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2885 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2886 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2887 it is an obsolete program.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2891 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2893 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2897 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2901 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2903 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2907 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2909 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2911 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2913 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2917 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2923 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * typo: Closes, #78567
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2929 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2935 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2941 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2944 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2945 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2946 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2947 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2948 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2952 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2955 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2960 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2963 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2964 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2965 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2966 backwards-compatability.
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2970 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2973 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2974 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2975 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2976 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2977 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2978 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2980 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2981 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2982 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2984 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2986 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2987 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2988 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2989 should now be raised to severity important..
2990 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2991 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2995 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2998 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3003 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3009 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3015 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3021 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3028 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3031 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3032 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3033 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3034 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3038 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3044 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3047 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3048 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3049 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3050 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3051 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3052 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3057 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3060 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3064 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3070 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3073 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3078 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3081 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3082 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3083 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3084 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3088 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3092 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3095 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3098 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3099 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3102 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3104 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3105 the TODO entry about it.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3109 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3116 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3119 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3120 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3124 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3127 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3128 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3129 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3130 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3134 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3140 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3147 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3150 (this appears to be logal).
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3154 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3157 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3158 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3159 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3160 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3164 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3170 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3173 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3174 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3175 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3176 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3180 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3186 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3189 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3193 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3200 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3203 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3204 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3205 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3210 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3217 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3223 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3226 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3227 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3228 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3229 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3230 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3231 notice until v2 is complete.
3232 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3233 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3234 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3235 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3236 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3237 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3239 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3240 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3241 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3242 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3246 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3252 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3259 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3262 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3266 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3273 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3276 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3277 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3278 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3279 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3284 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3287 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3288 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3289 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3294 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3297 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3298 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3302 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3305 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3309 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3312 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3316 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3323 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3326 depend on the build and install targets.
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3330 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3333 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3337 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3344 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3350 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3356 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3359 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3360 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3361 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3362 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3363 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3364 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3366 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3367 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3368 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3369 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3370 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3371 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3372 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3376 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3382 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3388 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3391 right place. Closes: #55065
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3395 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3402 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3405 * Copyright date updates.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3409 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3412 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3417 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3423 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3430 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3436 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3442 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3448 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3451 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3452 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3453 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3454 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3455 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3456 bits until all files have been registered.
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3460 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * dh_installmanpages:
3463 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3464 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3465 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3466 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3467 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3468 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3469 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3470 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3471 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3472 otherwise change the result at all.
3474 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3475 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3476 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3477 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3478 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3483 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3489 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3492 act on files that don't exist.
3493 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3494 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3495 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3497 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3498 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3499 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3500 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3504 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3510 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3516 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3519 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3523 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3526 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3528 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3529 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3530 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3534 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3537 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3538 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3539 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3540 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3541 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3542 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3543 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3545 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3547 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3551 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3558 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3564 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3570 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3573 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3577 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3583 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3589 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3592 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3593 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3594 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3595 I made some changes, though:
3596 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3597 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3598 that is a clear violation of policy.
3599 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3600 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3601 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3602 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3603 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3604 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3605 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3606 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3607 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3609 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3613 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3619 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3622 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3626 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3629 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3630 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3635 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3641 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3648 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3651 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3652 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3653 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3654 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3655 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3656 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3657 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3661 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3667 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3671 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3672 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3676 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3682 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3685 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3689 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3692 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3693 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3697 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3699 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3704 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3708 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3712 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3715 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3716 for the dependancies to be generated.
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3720 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3723 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3727 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3730 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3731 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3732 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3737 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3740 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3741 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3745 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3751 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3757 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3760 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3764 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3770 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3773 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3774 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3775 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3776 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3777 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3778 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3779 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3780 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3781 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3782 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3783 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3784 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3788 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3791 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3792 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3794 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3795 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3796 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3797 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3798 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3799 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3801 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3802 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3806 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3809 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3813 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3820 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3823 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3828 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3831 for building debhelper.
3832 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3836 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3843 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3846 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3850 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3853 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3854 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3855 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3856 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3857 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3858 it's always available.
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3862 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3865 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3866 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3867 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3871 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3874 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3875 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3879 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3885 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3888 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3892 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3898 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3901 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3902 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3903 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3907 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3910 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3915 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3918 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3919 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3921 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3922 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3926 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3932 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3938 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3941 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3945 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3948 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3949 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3951 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3955 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3958 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3959 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3960 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3964 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3967 things if CDPATH is set.
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3971 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3977 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3980 seems to make sense for the transition.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3984 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3987 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3992 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3995 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3996 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4000 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4003 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4007 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4010 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4011 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4012 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4013 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4017 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4023 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4026 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4027 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4028 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4029 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4030 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4031 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4032 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4033 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4034 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4035 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4040 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4043 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4044 * README: mention doc/v2
4045 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4046 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4050 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4052 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4053 be using this script RSN.
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4057 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4060 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4061 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4062 more than 1 init script.
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4066 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4069 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4073 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Changed perl version detection.
4076 * Changed call to find.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4080 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4083 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4085 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4090 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * Really include dh_installpam.
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4096 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4099 * Wrote man page for same.
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4103 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4106 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4107 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4112 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4119 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4122 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4123 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4124 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4125 x bit was being set!
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4129 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4132 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4133 well. (Closes: 38900)
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4137 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4140 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4141 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4145 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4151 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4158 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4164 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4167 help from Julian Gilbey.
4168 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4169 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4170 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4171 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4172 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4173 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4174 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4179 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4185 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4192 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4198 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4204 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4207 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4211 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4214 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4218 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4221 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4225 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4231 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4234 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4238 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4244 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4250 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4253 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4254 may be deleted. (#35845)
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4258 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * Various man page enhancements.
4261 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4266 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4269 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4270 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4274 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4277 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4278 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4279 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4281 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4282 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4287 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4293 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * Another very minor typo fix.
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4299 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * Very minor typo fix.
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4305 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4308 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4309 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4313 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4319 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4322 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4323 variables properly (#34850).
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4327 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4333 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4336 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4337 (automatically generated by build process).
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4341 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4343 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4347 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4350 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4351 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4353 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4357 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4360 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4364 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * README: minor typo fix.
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4370 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4373 leave it at that. :-)
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4377 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4383 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4389 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4392 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4393 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4394 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4398 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4401 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4405 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4408 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4412 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4415 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4416 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4417 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4418 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4422 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4425 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4426 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4427 Craig Small for spotting this.
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4431 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4434 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4435 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4439 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4445 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4448 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4452 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4454 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4455 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4456 working on the last version of debhelper.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4460 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4463 being made. (#23255)
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4467 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4473 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4476 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4480 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4483 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4484 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4485 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4486 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4490 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4493 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4494 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4495 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4496 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4498 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4499 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4501 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4506 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4512 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4518 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4521 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4522 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4523 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4524 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4525 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4526 suidregister actually supports it.
4527 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4528 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4532 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4539 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4542 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4543 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4544 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4545 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4546 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4547 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4548 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4552 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4554 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4555 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4559 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4562 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4563 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4564 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4565 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4569 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4572 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4574 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4575 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4576 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4577 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4578 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4579 effect, either. (#30118)
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4583 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4589 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4592 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4593 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4597 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4603 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4606 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4607 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4608 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4609 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4613 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4616 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4617 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4621 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4627 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4630 packages, painlessly.
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4634 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4640 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4646 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4652 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * The perl conversion is complete.
4656 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4658 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4659 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4660 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4665 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4668 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4669 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4670 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4674 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4677 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4679 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4681 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4682 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4686 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4689 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4690 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4694 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4700 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4703 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4704 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4705 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4706 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4707 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4711 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4714 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4715 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4716 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4717 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4721 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4724 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4728 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4731 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4732 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4733 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4734 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4735 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4736 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4737 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4738 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4742 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4748 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4751 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4752 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4753 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4758 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4761 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4765 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4768 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4772 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4775 sections of shared libraries.
4776 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4777 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4778 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4779 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4780 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4781 things you don't want them to.
4782 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4783 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4787 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4790 shared libraries. (#26414)
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4794 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4796 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4797 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4798 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4799 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4803 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4807 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4809 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4810 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4811 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4812 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4813 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4817 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4820 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4824 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4827 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4828 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4833 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4835 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4836 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4840 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4843 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4844 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4845 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4846 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4847 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4849 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4850 remove debian/files properly.
4851 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4852 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4853 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4854 * Removed bogus menu file.
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4858 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4861 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4865 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4868 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4869 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4870 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4871 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4872 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4873 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4877 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4880 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4881 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4882 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4883 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4887 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4889 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4894 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4897 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4898 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4900 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4901 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4902 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4903 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4904 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4905 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4909 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4912 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4913 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4914 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4915 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4916 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4917 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4918 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4919 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4920 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4921 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4922 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4923 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4924 passed any switches.
4925 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4929 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4932 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4933 at all for a long while.
4934 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4935 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4936 large chunks in the process.
4937 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4938 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4939 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4944 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4947 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4949 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4954 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4957 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4958 that don't always have the same files in them.
4959 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4960 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4961 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4965 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4969 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4970 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4971 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4972 updating 27 man pages.
4973 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4974 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4975 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4976 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4977 programs act on. (#25247)
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4981 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4985 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4986 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4987 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4988 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4989 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4990 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4995 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5002 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5009 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5012 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5016 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5022 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5025 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5026 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5027 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5028 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5029 package by accident.
5030 * Is version 1.0 next?
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5034 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5037 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5038 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5042 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5045 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5046 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5047 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5048 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5049 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5051 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5056 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5059 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5060 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5064 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5067 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5071 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5074 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5075 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5080 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5086 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5089 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5090 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5095 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5101 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5104 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5105 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5106 past week. Thanks, guys!
5108 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5109 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5110 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5111 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5112 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5113 would do in the same situation.
5114 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5115 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5117 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5119 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5120 permissions changed.
5121 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5122 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5123 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5124 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5125 files are treated identically.
5126 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5127 * Minor man page fixes.
5128 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5129 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5130 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5134 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5137 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5138 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5139 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5140 use -X multiple times, too.
5141 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5142 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5146 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5149 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5150 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5154 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5157 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5161 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5164 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5165 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5166 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5167 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5168 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5169 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5170 shape if you're starting a new package.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5174 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5177 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5181 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5184 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5185 because of missing symlinks.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5189 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5195 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5198 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5199 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5200 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5201 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5202 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5204 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5205 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5209 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5211 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5212 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5213 to be changed after the fact :-)
5214 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5218 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5220 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5221 no version string after the -V.
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5225 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5227 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5228 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5233 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5236 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5240 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5243 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5244 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5245 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5246 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5247 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5248 I always welcome corrections!
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5252 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5258 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5261 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5262 * Documented this new switch.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5266 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5269 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5270 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5271 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5272 no packages use the old behavior.
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5276 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5279 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5280 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5284 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5287 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5291 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5297 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5300 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5304 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5306 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5307 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5308 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5309 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5313 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5319 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5322 into the source package by accident.
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5326 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5329 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5330 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5331 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5332 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5333 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5334 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5339 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5343 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5344 inspired to implement some of it.
5345 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5349 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5352 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5356 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5359 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5360 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5364 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5367 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5368 have done.) (#17598)
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5372 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5378 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5384 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5387 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5391 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5394 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5395 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5399 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5402 argument processor in perl.
5403 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5404 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5405 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5406 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5410 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5413 type directories. (#16933)
5414 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5415 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5416 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5417 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5418 are supported. (#16935)
5419 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5424 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5427 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5431 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5435 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5436 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5437 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5438 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5439 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5440 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5444 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5447 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5448 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5450 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5451 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5452 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5453 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5454 a given package, or -i or -a.
5455 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5456 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5457 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5458 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5459 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5460 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5461 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5462 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5463 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5465 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5466 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5467 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5471 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5474 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5475 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5480 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5483 does not have a section.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5487 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5490 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5491 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5492 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5496 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * Fixed typo #16215.
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5502 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5505 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5506 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5507 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5508 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5509 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5514 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5517 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5518 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5519 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5524 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5530 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5536 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5539 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5540 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5541 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5542 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5543 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5544 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5548 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5550 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5554 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5557 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5561 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5564 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5565 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5566 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5570 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5573 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5577 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5583 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5586 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5590 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5593 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5597 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5603 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5605 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5606 postinst, postrm, etc.
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5610 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5616 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5619 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5620 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5621 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5622 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5623 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5627 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5630 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5631 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5635 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5638 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5642 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5645 installing package files into.
5646 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5651 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5655 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5659 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5661 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5665 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5668 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5672 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5674 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5675 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5676 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5677 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5678 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5682 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5684 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5685 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5686 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5687 multiple binary packages.
5688 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5689 should rebuild them with this version.
5690 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5694 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5697 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5701 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5704 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5708 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5711 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5712 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5713 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5714 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5715 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5716 debian/README.debian.
5717 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5718 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5719 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5720 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5721 in a few situations.)
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5725 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5731 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5737 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5740 * Fixed several man pages.
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5744 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5747 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5748 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5752 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5755 is ready for general use.
5756 * Added man pages for all commands.
5757 * Multiple binary package support.
5758 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5759 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5760 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5762 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5763 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5764 auto-installed as parameters.
5765 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5767 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5770 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5771 the package build directory it is to act on.
5772 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5773 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5774 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5778 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5780 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5781 ready to replace debstd.
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400