1 debhelper (8.9.8) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
4 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
5 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
7 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
8 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
10 * perl_makemaker: Pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL using OPTIMIZE. Closes: #643702
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:35:52 -0400
15 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
18 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
19 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
20 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
21 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
23 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
24 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
25 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
27 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
28 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
29 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
30 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
31 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
32 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
33 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
34 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
35 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
36 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
37 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
38 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
39 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
40 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
41 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
45 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
47 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
52 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
55 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
57 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
63 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
66 Use override targets instead.
67 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
68 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
69 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
70 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
71 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
72 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
73 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
74 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
75 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
76 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
81 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
83 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
84 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
88 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
90 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
94 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
97 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
98 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
99 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
100 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
101 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
102 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
106 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
109 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
110 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
111 the targets. Closes: #629139
112 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
113 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
114 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
115 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
116 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
117 are already set to other values will not be changed.
119 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
120 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
121 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
122 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
123 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
128 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
134 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
136 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
137 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
138 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
142 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
145 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
146 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
147 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
148 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
149 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
150 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
151 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
156 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
160 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
161 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
163 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
164 changes may be added to that mode.
165 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
166 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
167 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
168 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
169 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
170 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
171 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
172 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
173 * Removed old example rules files.
174 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
178 * update french translation.
179 * Fix french misspelling.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
183 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
186 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
190 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
193 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
194 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
195 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
196 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
197 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
198 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
199 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
203 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
206 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
207 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
208 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
209 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
210 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
211 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
213 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
214 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
215 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
216 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
217 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
218 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
219 (Thanks, David Prévot)
220 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
221 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
222 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
223 target fails. Closes: #601037
224 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
226 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
227 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
228 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
229 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
230 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
232 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
233 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
235 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
236 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
237 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
239 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
241 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
244 * update french translation.
245 * Fix french misspelling.
246 * French translation update after massive man page typography
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
250 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
256 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
260 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
262 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
266 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
268 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
269 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
270 introduced by the fix to #527990.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
274 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
277 changes are planned for that mode.
278 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
279 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
280 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
281 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
282 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
283 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
284 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
285 (genesis) still uses them.
286 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
287 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
288 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
289 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
290 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
291 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
292 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
293 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
294 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
295 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
296 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
297 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
298 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
299 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
300 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
301 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
302 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
303 commands. (See #570039)
304 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
306 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
311 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
315 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
316 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
317 in control file or debhelper config files.
318 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
322 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
325 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
326 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
330 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
333 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
337 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
340 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
341 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
345 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Updated French translation.
348 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
349 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
350 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
351 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
353 * Typo. Closes: #571968
354 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
355 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
356 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
357 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
358 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
359 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
360 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
361 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
362 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
364 * dh: Improve documentation.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
368 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
370 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
371 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
372 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
376 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
379 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
383 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
386 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
390 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
393 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
394 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
395 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
396 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
397 options that they do not support.
398 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
399 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
400 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
401 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
402 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
403 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
408 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
412 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
413 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
414 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
415 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
416 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
417 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
418 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
419 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
420 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
424 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
426 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
427 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
428 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
429 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
430 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
434 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Typo. Closes: #558654
437 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
438 installed. Closes: #558782
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
442 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
445 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
446 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
447 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
448 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
449 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
453 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
455 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
456 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
457 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
458 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
462 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
465 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
466 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
470 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
472 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
476 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
478 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
479 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
480 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
481 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
482 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
483 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
484 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
485 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
486 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
487 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
488 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
489 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
490 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
491 time soon.) Closes: #554509
492 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
494 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
495 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
496 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
497 document id. Closes: #555677
498 * Typo. Closes: #555659
499 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
500 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
501 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
502 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
504 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
505 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
506 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
511 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
514 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
515 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
516 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
517 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
518 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
519 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
520 translation (#494300 part 2)
523 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
525 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
526 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
527 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
528 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
529 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
533 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
536 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
537 (It was only run once due to logging.)
538 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
539 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
540 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
541 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
542 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
543 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
544 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
545 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
546 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
547 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
551 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
555 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
558 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
559 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
563 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
566 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
567 flag with arch all/any packages.
568 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
569 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
570 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
571 situation. Closes: #540794
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
575 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
579 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
580 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
581 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
582 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
583 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
586 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
587 the default. Closes: #538201
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
592 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
596 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
597 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
598 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
599 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
600 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
602 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
603 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
604 * Above Closes: #491117
605 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
610 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
616 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
617 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
618 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
622 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
625 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
626 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
627 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
628 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
629 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
634 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
636 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
637 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
638 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
642 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
644 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
648 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
650 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
651 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
653 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
654 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
655 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
659 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
661 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
662 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
666 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
668 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
672 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
674 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
675 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
676 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
681 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
683 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
687 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
690 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
691 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
692 created by using `python' first during build and install.
694 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
699 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
701 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
705 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
707 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
708 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
712 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
714 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
718 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
720 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
724 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
726 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
727 contributed by Modestas Vainius
728 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
729 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
730 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
731 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
732 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
733 that support it. Closes: #480577
734 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
735 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
736 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
738 - Adds support for cmake.
739 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
740 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
742 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
744 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
745 that use them. The options are:
746 --sourcedir, --destdir
747 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
748 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
749 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
750 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
751 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
755 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
761 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
764 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
765 default. Closes: #537140
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
769 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
772 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
773 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
777 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
780 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
784 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
787 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
791 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
794 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
796 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
797 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
798 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
802 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
805 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
806 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
807 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
811 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
814 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
815 warning or deprecation message.
816 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
817 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
818 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
819 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
820 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
821 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
822 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
823 Closes: #534639, #357434
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
827 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
833 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
836 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
837 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
838 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
839 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
841 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
842 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
843 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
847 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
853 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
860 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
862 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
863 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
867 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
869 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
871 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
872 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
874 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
875 file support. Closes: #494914
876 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
880 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
883 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
884 parameters. Closes: #527256
885 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
886 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
887 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
891 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
895 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
896 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
897 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
901 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
904 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
905 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
906 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
910 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
913 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
914 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
916 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
917 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
918 by triggers). Closes: #521181
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
922 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
926 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
930 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
933 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
934 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
935 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
936 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
941 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
947 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
950 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
951 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
952 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
953 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
954 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
956 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
957 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
958 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
959 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
960 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
961 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
965 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
968 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
969 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
970 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
971 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
972 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
974 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
978 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
980 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
984 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
986 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
987 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
988 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
989 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
990 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
991 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
992 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
993 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
994 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
995 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
996 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1000 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1002 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1003 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1005 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1006 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1007 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1008 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1010 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1011 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1015 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1017 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1018 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1019 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1020 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1021 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1022 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1023 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1025 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1026 that uses them. Affected options are:
1027 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1028 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1029 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1030 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1031 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1032 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1033 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1034 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1035 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1036 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1037 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1038 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1042 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1049 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1055 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1058 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1060 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1061 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1062 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1063 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1064 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1065 than the old method.
1066 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1068 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1069 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1070 rules (see bug #509756).
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1074 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1080 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1081 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1082 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1083 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1087 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1090 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1091 empty files. Closes: #490937
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1095 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1101 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1108 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1111 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1112 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1113 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1114 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1119 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1121 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1122 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1123 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1124 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1128 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1131 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1132 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1133 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1134 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1135 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1139 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1146 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1149 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1150 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1151 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1152 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1153 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1154 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1155 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1156 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1157 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1161 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1164 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1165 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1166 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1167 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1169 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1170 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1171 breaking backwards compatibility.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1175 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1178 message in perl 5.10.
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1182 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1188 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1191 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1195 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1198 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1202 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1205 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1206 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1207 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1208 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1209 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1210 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1211 logging by dh_listpackages.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1215 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1218 run and there are no packages of that type.
1219 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1220 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1221 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1222 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1224 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1225 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1229 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1232 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1233 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1237 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1240 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1241 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1243 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1244 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1245 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1246 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1247 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1248 planned but not yet implemented.)
1249 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1250 if the Makefile has such a target.
1251 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1252 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1253 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1254 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1255 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1256 but not yet implemented.)
1257 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1258 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1259 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1260 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1261 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1263 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1265 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1266 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1268 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1269 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1270 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1275 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1278 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1279 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1283 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1285 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1286 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1287 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1291 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1297 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1303 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1306 just those installed by the program.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1310 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1313 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1314 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1318 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1321 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1322 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1323 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1324 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1328 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1331 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1332 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1336 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1339 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1340 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1344 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1347 with policy. Closes: #461392
1348 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1349 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1350 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1351 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1352 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1356 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1359 Closes: #460340, #460351
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1363 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1366 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1367 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1368 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1369 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1373 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1376 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1377 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1378 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1379 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1380 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1381 package build directory won't work.
1382 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1383 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1384 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1385 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1386 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1387 mode. Closes: #459426
1388 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1393 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1396 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1400 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1404 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1405 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1406 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1407 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1408 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1409 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1413 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1416 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1417 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1418 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1419 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1423 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1426 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1427 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1428 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1429 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1430 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1434 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1437 debian/package.triggers files.
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1441 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1444 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1448 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1451 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1452 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1453 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1454 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1459 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1462 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1466 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1469 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1470 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1472 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1477 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1481 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1482 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1483 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1487 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1494 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1501 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1504 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1506 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1507 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1508 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1510 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1511 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1512 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1516 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1519 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1520 * Update urls to web page.
1521 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1522 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1523 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1524 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1528 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1531 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1532 - typo in alternatives call
1533 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1535 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1536 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1540 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1543 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1548 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1554 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1560 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1563 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1565 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1566 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1567 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1568 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1569 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1570 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1571 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1572 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1573 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1574 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1575 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1579 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1582 package install. Closes: #415717
1583 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1584 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1585 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1586 script and then remove the python files.
1587 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1588 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1589 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1590 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1591 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1592 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1593 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1594 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1595 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1596 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1597 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1598 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1599 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1603 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Correct typo in french translation
1609 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1610 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1612 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1614 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1615 Closes: #406921, #381940
1616 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1618 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1619 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1620 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1621 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1622 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1623 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1624 specified). Closes: #381851
1625 * Misc minor changes.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1629 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1636 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1637 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1641 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1647 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1648 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1651 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1652 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1654 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1655 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1656 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1657 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1661 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1664 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1667 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1671 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1677 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1683 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1684 a difficult situation.
1685 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1686 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1687 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1688 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1689 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1690 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1691 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1692 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1693 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1694 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1698 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Non-maintainer upload.
1701 * Update of dh_python
1702 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1703 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1705 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1706 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1707 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1708 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1709 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1711 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1713 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * Non-maintainer upload.
1716 * Update of dh_python
1717 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1718 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1719 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1720 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1721 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1722 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1723 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1724 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1725 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1726 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1728 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1729 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1730 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1731 the not too-distant future).
1732 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1733 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1734 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1735 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1736 thus made the build fail.
1738 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1740 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Non-maintainer upload.
1743 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1745 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1747 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1750 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1751 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1752 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1753 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1754 package. Closes: #301424
1755 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1756 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1757 fonts). Closes: #372686
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1761 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1767 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1768 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1769 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1770 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1771 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1772 above, but already depends on that.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1776 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1779 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1780 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1781 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1782 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1783 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1787 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1793 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1799 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1800 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1804 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1807 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1811 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1815 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1816 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1817 new version (0.24.1).
1818 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1819 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1822 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1823 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1824 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1825 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1826 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1827 new directory on their own.
1828 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1829 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1833 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1836 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1837 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1838 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1839 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1843 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1846 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1847 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1848 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1849 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1850 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1854 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1860 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1864 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1865 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1869 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1870 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1874 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1876 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1877 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1879 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1880 ignored. Closes: #337664
1882 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1887 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1893 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1898 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1899 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1900 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1901 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1902 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1903 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1904 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1908 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1911 version. Closes: #350607
1912 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1913 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1914 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1915 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1919 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1922 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1923 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1924 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1928 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1935 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1941 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1944 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1948 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1951 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1952 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1953 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1954 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1955 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1956 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1960 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1963 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1964 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1969 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1972 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1976 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1979 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1983 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1986 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1987 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1988 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1989 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1990 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1991 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1995 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1999 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2000 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2001 link. Closes: #346405
2002 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2004 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2005 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2006 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2007 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2008 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2009 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2010 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2014 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2021 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2027 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2030 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2034 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2037 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2042 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2046 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2047 installed. Closes: #342033
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2051 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2054 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2055 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2056 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2061 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2067 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2073 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2077 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2078 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2079 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2083 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2086 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2091 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2098 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2104 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2107 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2108 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2109 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2110 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2111 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2112 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2113 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2115 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2119 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2122 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2123 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2127 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2130 in standard man dirs.
2131 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2135 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2141 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2144 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2149 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2156 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2163 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2166 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2167 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2171 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2174 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2175 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2176 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2178 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2180 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2186 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2192 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2195 mode. Closes: #324161
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2199 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2202 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2203 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2204 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2205 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2210 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2213 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2214 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2215 is necesary for sanity.
2216 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2217 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2222 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2224 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2225 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2229 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2232 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2236 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2242 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2245 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2246 released, so use at your own risk.
2247 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2248 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2250 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2251 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2252 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2253 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2254 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2255 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2256 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2257 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2258 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2259 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2260 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2261 including twice per config file line now..
2262 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2263 and simplfy the rules file.
2264 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2265 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2266 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2268 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2269 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2273 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2276 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2280 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2283 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2287 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2290 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2297 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2298 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2299 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2300 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2301 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2302 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2306 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2309 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2310 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2311 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2316 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2319 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2320 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2325 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2328 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2329 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2330 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2335 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2338 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2339 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2340 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2344 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2350 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2357 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2360 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2361 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2362 unknown. Closes: #282924
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2366 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2373 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * Spanish man page updates.
2376 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2381 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2390 * dh_desktop: reindent
2391 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2392 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2396 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2402 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2404 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2408 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2410 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2414 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2417 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2418 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2422 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2428 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2434 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2441 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2444 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2448 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2451 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2452 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2453 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2454 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2455 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2456 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2458 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2459 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2460 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2461 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2462 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2463 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2464 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2465 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2466 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2467 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2468 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2469 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2470 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2471 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2472 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2473 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2477 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2484 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2487 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2491 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2494 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2498 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2501 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2505 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2508 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2512 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2518 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2524 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2530 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2533 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2534 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2535 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2539 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2542 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2546 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2549 but occasionally right and necessary.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2553 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2556 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2557 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2558 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2559 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2560 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2564 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2567 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2569 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2570 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2571 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2572 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2573 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2574 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2575 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2576 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2577 postinst scripts for udebs.
2578 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2582 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2585 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2587 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2588 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2592 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2598 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2605 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2612 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2615 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2619 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2622 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2626 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2629 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2632 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2633 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2637 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2643 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2646 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2650 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2653 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2654 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2655 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2657 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2659 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2660 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2661 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2665 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2668 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2673 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2676 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2677 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2678 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2683 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2689 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2695 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2698 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2699 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2700 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2701 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2702 associated -dbg packages.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2706 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2709 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2713 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2716 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2720 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2723 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2727 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2730 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2735 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2738 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2742 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2745 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2750 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2753 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2757 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2761 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2762 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2763 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2764 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2765 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2766 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2767 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2768 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2769 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2770 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2774 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2777 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2782 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2785 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2786 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2790 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2793 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2794 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2799 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2802 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2806 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2809 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2813 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2816 out section number. Closes: #204731
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2820 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2827 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2833 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2839 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2842 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2843 removal. Closes: #204286
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2847 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2850 renaming. Closes: #203548
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2854 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2857 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2858 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2862 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2868 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2874 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2880 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2883 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2884 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2885 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2889 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2892 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2893 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2897 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2903 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2910 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2913 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2918 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2921 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2925 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2928 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2930 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2931 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2935 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2938 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2943 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2946 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2950 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2956 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2958 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2962 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2965 it break hard links (see #188663).
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2972 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2976 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2982 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2986 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2987 debconf-mergetemplates
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2991 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2994 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2998 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3001 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3005 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3008 * Update debhelper(1).
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3012 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3015 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3016 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3017 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3018 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3019 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3023 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3026 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3027 the shell. Closes: #178524
3028 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3032 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3035 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3039 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3042 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3046 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3049 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3050 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3051 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3052 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3057 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3060 files from installation.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3064 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3067 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3068 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3072 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3075 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3079 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3082 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3086 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3092 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3098 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3102 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3103 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3105 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3109 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3112 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3113 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3114 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3115 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3119 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3122 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3126 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3129 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3130 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3134 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3138 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3143 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3149 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3153 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3154 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3155 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3160 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3163 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3164 practice. Closes: #163303
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3168 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3174 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3181 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3184 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3186 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3187 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3188 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3189 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3190 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3194 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3197 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3202 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3208 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3215 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3218 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3223 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3229 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3235 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3241 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3248 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3251 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3252 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3253 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3254 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3259 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3265 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3272 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3275 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3276 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3280 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3283 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3284 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3285 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3286 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3287 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3291 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3294 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3296 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3301 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3304 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3308 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3311 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3312 right thing. Closes: #150644
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3316 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Stupid, evil typo.
3319 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3323 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3330 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3333 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3334 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3339 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3345 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3348 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3352 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3355 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3356 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3361 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3364 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3368 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3374 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3377 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3378 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3382 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3388 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Removing perl warning message.
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3394 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3397 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3398 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3399 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3400 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3401 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3402 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3403 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3404 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3408 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3414 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3421 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3424 debconf-mergetemplate.
3425 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3426 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3430 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3433 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3434 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3435 dh_install, which ...
3436 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3437 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3438 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3439 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3440 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3441 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3442 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3443 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3444 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3445 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3446 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3447 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3448 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3449 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3450 other minor changes.
3451 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3452 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3453 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3454 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3455 course there's -X ..)
3456 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3457 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3458 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3460 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3461 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3462 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3463 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3464 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3469 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3475 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3478 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3482 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3488 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3494 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3500 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3506 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3509 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3510 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3511 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3512 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3514 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3515 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3519 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3525 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3528 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3532 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3535 upset. Closes: #131322
3537 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3539 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3542 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3543 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3544 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3545 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3546 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3547 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3548 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3549 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3550 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3551 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3552 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3553 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3554 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3555 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3556 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3558 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3562 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3565 - Better indenting of generated code.
3566 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3570 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3574 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3575 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3576 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3577 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3578 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3579 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3580 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3584 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3587 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3591 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3594 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3595 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3596 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3597 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3598 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3599 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3600 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3601 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3602 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3603 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3604 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3605 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3606 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3607 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3608 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3613 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3619 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3622 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3623 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3627 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3630 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3631 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3635 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3641 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3644 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3645 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3646 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3647 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3648 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3653 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3659 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3662 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3666 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3669 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3674 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3680 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3683 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3687 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3693 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3697 Also some indentation fixes.
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3701 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3704 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3705 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3706 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3707 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3708 Closes: #106514, #85520
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3712 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3718 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3724 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3730 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3736 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3742 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3745 change it in debhelper v4..
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3749 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3755 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3758 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3762 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3765 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3769 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3775 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3778 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3779 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3780 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3781 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3782 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3783 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3784 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3785 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3786 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3787 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3788 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3789 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3793 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3796 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3800 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3807 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3810 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3811 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3812 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3813 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3814 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3815 program those options go to. So, for example,
3816 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3817 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3818 something complex. Closes: #89311
3819 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3823 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3826 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3827 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3828 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3832 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3835 through loop. Closes: #98598
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3839 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * Missing semi-colon.
3842 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3843 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3847 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3850 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3851 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3852 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3856 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3859 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3860 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3864 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3867 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3871 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3874 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3875 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3879 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3882 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3883 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3884 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3888 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3891 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3892 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3893 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3897 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3900 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3904 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3910 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3916 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3922 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3928 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3931 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3935 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3938 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3939 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3940 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3941 followed. Closes: #85483
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3945 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3947 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3948 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3949 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3953 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3956 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3957 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3958 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3959 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3960 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3961 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3962 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3963 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3964 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3965 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3966 Closes: #88464, #77743
3967 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3968 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3969 us to deal with that gracefully.
3970 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3972 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3973 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3974 a while, Closes: #51225
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3978 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3984 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3987 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3991 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3995 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4000 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4003 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4004 don't make packlist files.
4005 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4006 debhelper coding standards.
4007 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4008 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4012 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4015 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4019 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4022 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4023 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4024 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4025 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4026 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4027 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4028 but is mildly deprecated.
4029 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4030 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4031 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4032 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4033 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4034 switching to statoverrides..
4035 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4036 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4037 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4038 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4039 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4040 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4042 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4043 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4044 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4045 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4046 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4047 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4048 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4049 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4050 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4052 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4053 variable names, pod man pages).
4054 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4055 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4056 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4057 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4058 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4059 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4060 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4064 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4070 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4077 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4080 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4084 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4086 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4087 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4088 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4092 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4094 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4095 they were previously ignored.
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4099 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4101 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4102 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4106 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4108 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4109 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4110 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4114 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4116 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4120 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4122 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4123 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4127 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4129 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4130 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4131 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4132 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4133 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4134 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4135 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4136 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4137 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4138 it is an obsolete program.
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4142 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4144 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4148 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4152 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4154 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4158 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4160 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4162 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4164 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4168 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4174 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * typo: Closes, #78567
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4180 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4186 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4192 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4195 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4196 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4197 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4198 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4199 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4203 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4206 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4211 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4214 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4215 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4216 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4217 backwards-compatibility.
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4221 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4224 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4225 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4226 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4227 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4228 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4229 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4231 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4232 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4233 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4235 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4237 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4238 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4239 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4240 should now be raised to severity important..
4241 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4242 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4246 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4249 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4254 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4260 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4266 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4272 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4279 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4282 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4283 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4284 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4285 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4289 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4295 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4298 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4299 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4300 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4301 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4302 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4303 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4308 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4311 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4315 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4321 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4324 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4329 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4332 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4333 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4334 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4335 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4339 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4343 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4346 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4349 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4350 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4353 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4355 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4356 the TODO entry about it.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4360 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4367 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4370 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4371 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4375 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4377 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4378 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4379 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4380 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4381 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4385 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4391 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4398 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4401 (this appears to be logal).
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4405 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4408 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4409 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4410 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4411 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4415 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4421 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4424 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4425 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4426 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4427 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4431 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4437 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4440 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4444 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4451 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4454 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4455 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4456 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4461 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4468 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4474 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4477 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4478 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4479 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4480 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4481 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4482 notice until v2 is complete.
4483 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4484 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4485 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4486 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4487 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4488 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4490 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4491 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4492 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4493 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4497 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4503 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4510 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4513 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4517 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4524 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4527 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4528 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4529 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4530 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4535 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4538 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4539 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4540 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4545 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4548 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4549 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4553 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4556 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4560 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4563 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4567 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4577 depend on the build and install targets.
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4581 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4584 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4588 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4595 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4601 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4607 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4610 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4611 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4612 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4613 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4614 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4615 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4617 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4618 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4619 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4620 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4621 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4622 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4623 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4627 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4633 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4639 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4642 right place. Closes: #55065
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4646 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4653 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4656 * Copyright date updates.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4660 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4663 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4668 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4674 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4681 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4687 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4693 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4699 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4702 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4703 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4704 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4705 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4706 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4707 bits until all files have been registered.
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4711 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * dh_installmanpages:
4714 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4715 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4716 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4717 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4718 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4719 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4720 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4721 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4722 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4723 otherwise change the result at all.
4725 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4726 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4727 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4728 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4729 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4734 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4740 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4743 act on files that don't exist.
4744 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4745 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4746 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4748 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4749 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4750 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4751 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4755 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4761 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4767 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4770 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4774 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4777 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4779 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4780 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4781 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4785 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4788 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4789 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4790 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4791 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4792 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4793 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4794 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4796 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4798 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4802 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4809 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4815 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4821 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4824 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4828 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4834 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4840 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4843 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4844 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4845 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4846 I made some changes, though:
4847 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4848 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4849 that is a clear violation of policy.
4850 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4851 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4852 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4853 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4854 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4855 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4856 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4857 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4858 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4860 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4864 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4870 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4873 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4877 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4880 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4881 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4886 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4892 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4899 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4902 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4903 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4904 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4905 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4906 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4907 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4908 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4912 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4914 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4918 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4922 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4923 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4927 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4933 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4936 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4940 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4943 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4944 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4948 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4950 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4955 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4959 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4963 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4966 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4967 for the dependancies to be generated.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4971 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4974 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4978 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4980 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4981 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4982 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4983 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4988 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4991 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4992 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4996 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5002 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5008 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5011 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5015 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5021 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5024 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5025 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5026 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5027 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5028 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5029 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5030 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5031 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5032 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5033 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5034 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5035 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5039 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5042 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5043 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5045 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5046 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5047 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5048 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5049 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5050 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5052 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5053 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5057 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5060 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5064 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5071 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5074 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5079 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5082 for building debhelper.
5083 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5087 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5094 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5097 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5101 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5104 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5105 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5106 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5107 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5108 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5109 it's always available.
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5113 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5116 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5117 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5118 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5122 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5125 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5126 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5130 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5136 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5139 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5143 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5149 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5152 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5153 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5154 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5158 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5161 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5166 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5169 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5170 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5172 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5173 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5177 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5183 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5189 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5192 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5196 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5199 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5200 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5202 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5206 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5209 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5210 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5211 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5215 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5218 things if CDPATH is set.
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5222 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5228 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5230 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5231 seems to make sense for the transition.
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5235 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5238 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5243 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5246 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5247 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5251 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5254 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5258 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5261 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5262 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5263 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5264 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5268 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5270 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5274 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5277 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5278 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5279 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5280 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5281 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5282 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5283 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5284 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5285 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5286 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5291 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5294 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5295 * README: mention doc/v2
5296 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5297 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5301 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5303 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5304 be using this script RSN.
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5308 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5311 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5312 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5313 more than 1 init script.
5315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5317 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5319 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5320 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5324 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * Changed perl version detection.
5327 * Changed call to find.
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5331 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5333 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5334 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5336 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5341 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * Really include dh_installpam.
5345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5347 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5349 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5350 * Wrote man page for same.
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5354 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5357 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5358 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5363 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5370 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5373 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5374 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5375 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5376 x bit was being set!
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5380 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5383 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5384 well. (Closes: 38900)
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5388 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5391 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5392 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5396 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5402 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5404 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5409 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5415 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5418 help from Julian Gilbey.
5419 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5420 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5421 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5422 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5423 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5424 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5425 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5430 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5436 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5443 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5449 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5455 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5458 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5462 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5465 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5469 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5472 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5476 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5482 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5485 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5489 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5495 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5501 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5504 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5505 may be deleted. (#35845)
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5509 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * Various man page enhancements.
5512 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5517 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5520 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5521 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5525 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5528 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5529 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5530 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5532 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5533 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5538 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5540 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5544 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * Another very minor typo fix.
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5550 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * Very minor typo fix.
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5556 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5559 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5560 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5564 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5570 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5573 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5574 variables properly (#34850).
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5578 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5584 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5587 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5588 (automatically generated by build process).
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5592 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5594 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5598 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5601 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5602 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5604 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5608 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5610 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5611 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5615 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * README: minor typo fix.
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5621 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5624 leave it at that. :-)
5626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5628 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5630 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5634 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5640 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5643 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5644 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5645 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5649 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5652 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5656 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5659 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5663 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5666 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5667 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5668 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5669 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5673 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5676 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5677 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5678 Craig Small for spotting this.
5680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5682 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5684 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5685 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5686 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5690 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5696 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5699 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5703 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5705 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5706 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5707 working on the last version of debhelper.
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5711 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5714 being made. (#23255)
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5718 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5724 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5727 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5731 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5734 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5735 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5736 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5737 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5741 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5744 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5745 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5746 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5747 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5749 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5750 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5752 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5757 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5763 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5765 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5769 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5772 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5773 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5774 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5775 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5776 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5777 suidregister actually supports it.
5778 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5779 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5783 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5790 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5793 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5794 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5795 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5796 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5797 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5798 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5799 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5803 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5805 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5806 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5810 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5813 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5814 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5815 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5816 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5820 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5823 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5825 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5826 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5827 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5828 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5829 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5830 effect, either. (#30118)
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5834 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5840 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5843 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5844 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5848 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5850 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5854 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5857 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5858 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5859 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5860 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5864 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5867 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5868 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5872 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5878 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5880 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5881 packages, painlessly.
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5885 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5891 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5893 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5897 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5903 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5905 * The perl conversion is complete.
5907 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5909 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5910 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5911 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5916 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5918 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5919 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5920 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5921 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5925 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5927 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5928 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5930 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5932 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5933 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5937 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5939 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5940 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5941 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5945 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5947 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5951 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5953 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5954 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5955 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5956 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5957 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5958 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5962 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5965 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5966 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5967 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5968 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5972 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5975 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5979 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5982 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5983 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5984 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5985 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5986 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5987 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5988 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5989 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5993 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5999 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6002 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6003 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6004 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6009 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6012 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6016 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6018 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6019 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6023 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6026 sections of shared libraries.
6027 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6028 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6029 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6030 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6031 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6032 things you don't want them to.
6033 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6034 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6038 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6040 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6041 shared libraries. (#26414)
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6045 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6047 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6048 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6049 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6050 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6054 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6058 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6060 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6061 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6062 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6063 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6064 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6068 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6071 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6075 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6078 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6079 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6084 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6086 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6087 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6091 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6094 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6095 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6096 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6097 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6098 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6100 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6101 remove debian/files properly.
6102 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6103 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6104 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6105 * Removed bogus menu file.
6107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6109 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6111 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6112 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6116 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6118 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6119 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6120 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6121 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6122 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6123 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6124 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6128 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6131 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6132 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6133 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6134 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6138 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6140 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6145 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6147 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6148 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6149 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6151 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6152 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6153 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6154 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6155 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6156 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6160 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6162 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6163 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6164 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6165 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6166 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6167 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6168 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6169 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6170 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6171 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6172 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6173 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6174 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6175 passed any switches.
6176 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6180 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6182 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6183 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6184 at all for a long while.
6185 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6186 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6187 large chunks in the process.
6188 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6189 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6190 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6195 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6197 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6198 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6200 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6205 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6207 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6208 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6209 that don't always have the same files in them.
6210 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6211 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6212 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6216 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6220 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6221 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6222 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6223 updating 27 man pages.
6224 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6225 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6226 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6227 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6228 programs act on. (#25247)
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6232 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6236 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6237 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6238 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6239 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6240 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6241 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6246 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6248 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6253 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6255 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6260 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6262 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6263 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6267 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6269 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6273 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6275 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6276 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6277 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6278 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6279 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6280 package by accident.
6281 * Is version 1.0 next?
6283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6285 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6287 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6288 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6289 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6293 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6296 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6297 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6298 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6299 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6300 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6302 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6307 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6309 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6310 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6311 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6315 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6318 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6322 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6324 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6325 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6326 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6331 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6333 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6337 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6339 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6340 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6341 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6346 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6348 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6352 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6354 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6355 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6356 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6357 past week. Thanks, guys!
6359 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6360 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6361 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6362 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6363 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6364 would do in the same situation.
6365 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6366 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6368 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6370 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6371 permissions changed.
6372 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6373 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6374 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6375 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6376 files are treated identically.
6377 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6378 * Minor man page fixes.
6379 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6380 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6381 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6385 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6387 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6388 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6389 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6390 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6391 use -X multiple times, too.
6392 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6393 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6397 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6399 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6400 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6401 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6405 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6407 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6408 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6412 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6414 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6415 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6416 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6417 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6418 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6419 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6420 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6421 shape if you're starting a new package.
6423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6425 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6427 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6428 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6432 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6434 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6435 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6436 because of missing symlinks.
6438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6440 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6442 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6446 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6448 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6449 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6450 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6451 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6452 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6453 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6455 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6456 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6460 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6462 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6463 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6464 to be changed after the fact :-)
6465 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6469 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6471 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6472 no version string after the -V.
6474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6476 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6478 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6479 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6484 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6486 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6487 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6491 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6493 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6494 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6495 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6496 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6497 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6498 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6499 I always welcome corrections!
6501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6503 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6505 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6509 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6512 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6513 * Documented this new switch.
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6517 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6519 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6520 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6521 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6522 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6523 no packages use the old behavior.
6525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6527 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6529 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6530 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6531 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6535 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6537 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6538 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6542 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6544 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6548 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6550 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6551 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6555 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6557 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6558 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6559 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6560 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6564 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6566 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6570 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6572 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6573 into the source package by accident.
6575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6577 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6579 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6580 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6581 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6582 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6583 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6584 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6585 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6590 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6592 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6594 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6595 inspired to implement some of it.
6596 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6600 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6602 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6603 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6607 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6609 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6610 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6611 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6615 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6617 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6618 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6619 have done.) (#17598)
6621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6623 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6625 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6629 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6631 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6635 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6637 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6638 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6642 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6644 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6645 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6646 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6650 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6652 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6653 argument processor in perl.
6654 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6655 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6656 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6657 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6661 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6663 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6664 type directories. (#16933)
6665 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6666 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6667 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6668 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6669 are supported. (#16935)
6670 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6675 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6677 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6678 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6682 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6684 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6686 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6687 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6688 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6689 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6690 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6691 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6695 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6697 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6698 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6699 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6701 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6702 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6703 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6704 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6705 a given package, or -i or -a.
6706 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6707 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6708 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6709 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6710 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6711 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6712 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6713 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6714 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6716 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6717 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6718 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6722 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6724 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6725 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6726 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6731 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6733 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6734 does not have a section.
6736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6738 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6740 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6741 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6742 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6743 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6747 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6749 * Fixed typo #16215.
6751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6753 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6755 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6756 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6757 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6758 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6759 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6760 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6765 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6767 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6768 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6769 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6770 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6775 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6777 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6781 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6783 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6787 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6789 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6790 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6791 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6792 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6793 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6794 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6795 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6799 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6801 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6805 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6807 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6808 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6812 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6814 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6815 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6816 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6817 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6821 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6823 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6824 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6828 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6830 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6834 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6836 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6837 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6841 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6843 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6844 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6848 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6850 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6854 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6856 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6857 postinst, postrm, etc.
6859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6861 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6863 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6867 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6869 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6870 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6871 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6872 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6873 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6874 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6878 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6880 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6881 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6882 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6886 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6888 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6889 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6893 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6895 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6896 installing package files into.
6897 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6902 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6904 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6906 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6910 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6912 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6916 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6918 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6919 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6923 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6925 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6926 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6927 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6928 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6929 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6933 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6935 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6936 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6937 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6938 multiple binary packages.
6939 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6940 should rebuild them with this version.
6941 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6945 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6947 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6948 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6952 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6954 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6955 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6959 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6961 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6962 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6963 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6964 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6965 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6966 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6967 debian/README.debian.
6968 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6969 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6970 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6971 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6972 in a few situations.)
6974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6976 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6978 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6982 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6984 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6988 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6990 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6991 * Fixed several man pages.
6993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6995 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6997 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6998 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6999 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7003 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7005 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7006 is ready for general use.
7007 * Added man pages for all commands.
7008 * Multiple binary package support.
7009 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7010 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7011 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7013 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7014 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7015 auto-installed as parameters.
7016 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7018 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7021 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7022 the package build directory it is to act on.
7023 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7024 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7025 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7029 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7031 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7032 ready to replace debstd.
7034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400