1 debhelper (8.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * update french translation.
5 * Fix french misspelling.
6 * French translation update after massive man page typography
9 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
10 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
11 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
12 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
13 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
14 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
16 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
17 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
18 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
19 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
20 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
21 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
22 (Thanks, David Prévot)
23 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
24 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
25 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
26 target fails. Closes: #601037
27 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
32 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
38 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
42 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
44 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
48 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
50 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
51 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
52 introduced by the fix to #527990.
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
56 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
59 changes are planned for that mode.
60 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
61 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
62 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
63 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
64 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
65 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
66 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
67 (genesis) still uses them.
68 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
69 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
70 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
71 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
72 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
73 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
74 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
75 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
76 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
77 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
78 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
79 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
80 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
81 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
82 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
83 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
84 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
85 commands. (See #570039)
86 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
88 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
93 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
97 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
98 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
99 in control file or debhelper config files.
100 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
104 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
107 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
108 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
112 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
114 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
115 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
119 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
121 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
122 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
123 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
127 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
129 * Updated French translation.
130 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
131 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
132 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
133 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
135 * Typo. Closes: #571968
136 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
137 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
138 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
139 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
140 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
141 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
142 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
143 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
144 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
146 * dh: Improve documentation.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
150 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
152 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
153 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
154 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
158 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
160 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
161 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
165 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
168 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
172 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
175 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
176 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
177 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
178 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
179 options that they do not support.
180 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
181 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
182 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
183 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
184 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
185 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
190 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
194 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
195 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
196 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
197 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
198 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
199 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
200 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
201 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
202 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
206 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
209 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
210 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
211 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
212 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
216 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Typo. Closes: #558654
219 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
220 installed. Closes: #558782
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
224 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
227 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
228 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
229 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
230 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
231 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
235 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
237 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
238 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
239 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
240 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
244 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
247 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
248 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
252 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
254 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
258 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
260 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
261 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
262 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
263 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
264 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
265 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
266 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
267 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
268 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
269 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
270 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
271 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
272 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
273 time soon.) Closes: #554509
274 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
276 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
277 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
278 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
279 document id. Closes: #555677
280 * Typo. Closes: #555659
281 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
282 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
283 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
284 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
286 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
287 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
288 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
293 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
296 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
297 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
298 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
299 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
300 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
301 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
302 translation (#494300 part 2)
305 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
307 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
308 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
309 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
310 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
311 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
315 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
318 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
319 (It was only run once due to logging.)
320 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
321 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
322 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
323 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
324 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
325 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
326 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
327 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
328 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
329 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
333 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
336 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
337 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
340 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
341 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
345 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
348 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
349 flag with arch all/any packages.
350 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
351 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
352 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
353 situation. Closes: #540794
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
357 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
361 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
362 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
363 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
364 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
365 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
368 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
369 the default. Closes: #538201
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
374 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
378 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
379 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
380 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
381 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
382 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
384 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
385 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
386 * Above Closes: #491117
387 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
392 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
398 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
399 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
400 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
404 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
407 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
408 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
409 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
410 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
411 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
416 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
419 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
420 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
424 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
426 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
430 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
432 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
433 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
435 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
436 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
437 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
441 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
443 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
444 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
448 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
454 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
456 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
457 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
458 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
463 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
465 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
469 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
472 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
473 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
474 created by using `python' first during build and install.
476 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
481 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
483 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
487 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
489 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
490 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
494 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
496 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
500 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
502 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
506 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
508 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
509 contributed by Modestas Vainius
510 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
511 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
512 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
513 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
514 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
515 that support it. Closes: #480577
516 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
517 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
518 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
520 - Adds support for cmake.
521 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
522 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
524 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
526 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
527 that use them. The options are:
528 --sourcedir, --destdir
529 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
530 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
531 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
532 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
533 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
537 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
543 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
546 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
547 default. Closes: #537140
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
551 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
554 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
555 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
559 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
562 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
566 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
569 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
573 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
575 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
576 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
578 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
579 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
580 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
584 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
587 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
588 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
589 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
593 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
596 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
597 warning or deprecation message.
598 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
599 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
600 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
601 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
602 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
603 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
604 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
605 Closes: #534639, #357434
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
609 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
615 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
618 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
619 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
620 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
621 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
623 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
624 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
625 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
629 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
635 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
642 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
645 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
649 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
653 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
654 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
656 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
657 file support. Closes: #494914
658 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
662 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
665 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
666 parameters. Closes: #527256
667 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
668 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
669 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
673 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
677 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
678 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
679 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
683 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
686 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
687 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
688 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
692 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
695 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
696 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
698 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
699 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
700 by triggers). Closes: #521181
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
704 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
708 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
712 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
715 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
716 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
717 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
718 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
723 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
729 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
732 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
733 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
734 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
735 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
736 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
738 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
739 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
740 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
741 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
742 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
743 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
747 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
750 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
751 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
752 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
753 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
754 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
756 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
760 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
762 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
766 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
768 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
769 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
770 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
771 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
772 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
773 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
774 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
775 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
776 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
777 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
778 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
782 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
784 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
785 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
787 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
788 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
789 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
790 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
792 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
793 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
797 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
799 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
800 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
801 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
802 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
803 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
804 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
805 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
807 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
808 that uses them. Affected options are:
809 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
810 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
811 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
812 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
813 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
814 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
815 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
816 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
817 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
818 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
819 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
820 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
824 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
831 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
837 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
839 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
840 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
842 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
843 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
844 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
845 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
846 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
848 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
850 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
851 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
852 rules (see bug #509756).
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
856 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
862 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
863 * Typo. Closes: #493062
864 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
865 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
869 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
872 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
873 empty files. Closes: #490937
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
877 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
883 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
890 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
893 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
894 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
895 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
896 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
901 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
903 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
904 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
905 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
906 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
910 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
913 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
914 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
915 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
916 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
917 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
921 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
928 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
930 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
931 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
932 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
933 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
934 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
935 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
936 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
937 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
938 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
939 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
943 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
946 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
947 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
948 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
949 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
951 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
952 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
953 breaking backwards compatibility.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
957 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
960 message in perl 5.10.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
964 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
970 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
972 * Convert copyright file to new format.
973 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
977 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
980 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
984 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
987 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
988 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
989 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
990 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
991 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
992 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
993 logging by dh_listpackages.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
997 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1000 run and there are no packages of that type.
1001 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1002 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1003 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1004 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1006 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1007 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1011 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1014 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1015 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1019 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1022 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1023 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1025 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1026 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1027 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1028 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1029 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1030 planned but not yet implemented.)
1031 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1032 if the Makefile has such a target.
1033 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1034 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1035 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1036 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1037 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1038 but not yet implemented.)
1039 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1040 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1041 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1042 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1043 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1045 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1047 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1048 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1050 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1051 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1052 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1057 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1060 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1061 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1065 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1067 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1068 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1069 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1073 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1079 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1085 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1088 just those installed by the program.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1092 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1095 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1096 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1100 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1103 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1104 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1105 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1106 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1110 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1113 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1114 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1118 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1121 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1122 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1126 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1129 with policy. Closes: #461392
1130 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1131 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1132 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1133 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1134 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1138 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1141 Closes: #460340, #460351
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1145 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1148 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1149 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1150 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1151 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1155 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1158 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1159 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1160 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1161 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1162 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1163 package build directory won't work.
1164 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1165 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1166 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1167 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1168 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1169 mode. Closes: #459426
1170 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1175 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1178 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1182 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1186 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1187 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1188 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1189 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1190 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1191 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1195 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1198 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1199 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1200 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1201 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1205 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1208 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1209 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1210 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1211 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1212 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1216 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1219 debian/package.triggers files.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1223 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1226 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1230 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1233 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1234 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1235 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1236 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1241 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1244 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1248 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1251 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1252 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1254 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1259 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1263 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1264 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1265 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1269 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1276 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1283 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1286 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1288 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1289 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1290 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1292 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1293 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1294 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1298 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1301 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1302 * Update urls to web page.
1303 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1304 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1305 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1306 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1310 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1313 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1314 - typo in alternatives call
1315 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1317 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1318 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1322 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1325 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1330 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1336 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1342 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1345 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1347 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1348 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1349 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1350 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1351 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1352 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1353 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1354 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1355 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1356 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1357 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1361 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1364 package install. Closes: #415717
1365 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1366 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1367 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1368 script and then remove the python files.
1369 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1370 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1371 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1372 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1373 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1374 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1375 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1376 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1377 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1378 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1379 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1380 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1381 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1385 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Correct typo in french translation
1391 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1392 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1394 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1396 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1397 Closes: #406921, #381940
1398 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1400 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1401 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1402 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1403 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1404 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1405 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1406 specified). Closes: #381851
1407 * Misc minor changes.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1411 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1418 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1419 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1423 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1429 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1430 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1433 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1434 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1436 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1437 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1438 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1439 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1443 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1446 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1449 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1453 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1459 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1465 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1466 a difficult situation.
1467 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1468 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1469 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1470 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1471 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1472 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1473 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1474 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1475 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1476 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1480 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Non-maintainer upload.
1483 * Update of dh_python
1484 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1485 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1487 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1488 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1489 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1490 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1491 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1493 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1495 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Non-maintainer upload.
1498 * Update of dh_python
1499 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1500 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1501 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1502 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1503 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1504 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1505 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1506 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1507 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1508 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1510 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1511 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1512 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1513 the not too-distant future).
1514 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1515 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1516 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1517 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1518 thus made the build fail.
1520 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1522 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Non-maintainer upload.
1525 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1527 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1529 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1532 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1533 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1534 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1535 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1536 package. Closes: #301424
1537 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1538 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1539 fonts). Closes: #372686
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1543 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1549 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1550 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1551 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1552 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1553 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1554 above, but already depends on that.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1558 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1561 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1562 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1563 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1564 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1565 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1569 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1575 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1581 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1582 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1586 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1589 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1593 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1597 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1598 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1599 new version (0.24.1).
1600 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1601 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1604 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1605 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1606 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1607 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1608 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1609 new directory on their own.
1610 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1611 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1615 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1618 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1619 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1620 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1621 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1625 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1628 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1629 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1630 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1631 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1632 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1636 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1642 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1646 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1647 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1651 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1652 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1656 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1658 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1659 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1661 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1662 ignored. Closes: #337664
1664 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1669 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1675 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1680 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1681 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1682 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1683 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1684 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1685 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1686 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1690 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1693 version. Closes: #350607
1694 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1695 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1696 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1697 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1701 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1704 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1705 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1706 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1710 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1717 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1723 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1726 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1730 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1733 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1734 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1735 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1736 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1737 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1738 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1742 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1745 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1746 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1751 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1754 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1758 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1761 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1765 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1768 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1769 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1770 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1771 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1772 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1773 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1777 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1781 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1782 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1783 link. Closes: #346405
1784 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1786 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1787 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1788 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1789 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1790 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1791 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1792 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1796 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1803 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1809 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1812 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1816 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1819 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1824 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1828 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1829 installed. Closes: #342033
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1833 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1836 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1837 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1838 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1843 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1849 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1855 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1859 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1860 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1861 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1865 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1868 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1873 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1880 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1886 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1889 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1890 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1891 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1892 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1893 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1894 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1895 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1897 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1901 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1904 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1905 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1909 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1912 in standard man dirs.
1913 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1917 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1923 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1926 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1931 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1938 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1945 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1948 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1949 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1953 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1956 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1957 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1958 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1960 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1962 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1968 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1974 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1977 mode. Closes: #324161
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1981 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1984 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1985 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1986 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1987 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1995 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1996 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1997 is necesary for sanity.
1998 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1999 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2004 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2006 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2007 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2011 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2014 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2018 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2024 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2027 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2028 released, so use at your own risk.
2029 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2030 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2032 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2033 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2034 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2035 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2036 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2037 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2038 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2039 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2040 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2041 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2042 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2043 including twice per config file line now..
2044 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2045 and simplfy the rules file.
2046 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2047 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2048 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2050 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2051 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2055 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2058 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2062 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2065 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2069 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2072 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2076 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2079 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2080 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2081 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2082 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2083 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2084 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2088 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2091 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2092 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2093 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2098 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2101 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2102 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2107 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2110 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2111 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2112 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2117 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2120 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2121 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2122 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2126 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2132 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2139 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2142 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2143 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2144 unknown. Closes: #282924
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2148 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2155 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * Spanish man page updates.
2158 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2163 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2169 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2172 * dh_desktop: reindent
2173 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2174 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2178 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2184 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2186 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2190 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2192 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2196 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2199 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2200 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2204 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2210 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2216 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2223 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2226 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2230 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2233 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2234 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2235 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2236 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2237 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2238 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2240 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2241 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2242 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2243 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2244 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2245 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2246 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2247 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2248 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2249 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2250 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2251 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2252 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2253 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2254 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2255 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2259 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2266 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2269 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2273 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2276 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2280 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2283 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2287 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2290 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2300 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2306 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2312 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2315 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2316 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2317 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2321 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2324 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2328 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2331 but occasionally right and necessary.
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2335 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2338 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2339 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2340 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2341 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2342 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2346 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2349 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2351 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2352 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2353 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2354 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2355 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2356 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2357 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2358 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2359 postinst scripts for udebs.
2360 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2364 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2367 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2369 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2370 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2374 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2380 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2387 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2394 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2397 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2401 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2404 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2408 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2411 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2414 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2415 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2419 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2425 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2428 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2432 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2435 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2436 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2437 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2439 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2441 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2442 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2443 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2447 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2450 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2455 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2458 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2459 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2460 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2465 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2471 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2477 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2480 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2481 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2482 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2483 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2484 associated -dbg packages.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2491 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2495 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2498 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2505 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2509 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2512 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2517 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2520 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2524 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2527 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2532 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2535 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2539 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2543 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2544 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2545 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2546 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2547 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2548 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2549 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2550 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2551 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2552 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2556 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2559 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2564 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2567 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2568 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2572 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2575 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2576 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2581 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2584 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2588 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2591 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2595 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2598 out section number. Closes: #204731
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2602 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2609 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2621 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2624 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2625 removal. Closes: #204286
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2629 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2632 renaming. Closes: #203548
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2636 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2639 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2640 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2644 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2650 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2656 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2662 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2665 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2666 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2667 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2671 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2674 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2675 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2679 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2685 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2692 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2695 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2700 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2703 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2707 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2710 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2712 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2713 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2717 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2720 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2725 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2728 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2732 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2738 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2740 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2744 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2747 it break hard links (see #188663).
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2751 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2754 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2758 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2764 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2768 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2769 debconf-mergetemplates
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2773 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2776 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2780 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2783 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2787 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2790 * Update debhelper(1).
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2794 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2797 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2798 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2799 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2800 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2801 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2805 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2808 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2809 the shell. Closes: #178524
2810 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2814 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2817 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2821 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2824 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2828 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2831 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2832 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2833 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2834 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2839 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2842 files from installation.
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2846 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2849 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2850 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2854 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2857 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2861 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2864 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2868 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2874 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2880 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2884 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2885 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2887 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2891 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2894 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2895 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2896 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2897 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2901 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2904 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2908 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2911 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2912 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2916 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2920 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2925 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2931 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2935 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2936 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2937 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2942 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2945 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2946 practice. Closes: #163303
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2950 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2956 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2963 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2966 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2968 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2969 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2970 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2971 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2972 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2976 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2979 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2984 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2990 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2997 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3000 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3005 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3011 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3017 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3023 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3030 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3033 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3034 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3035 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3036 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3041 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3047 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3054 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3057 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3058 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3062 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3065 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3066 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3067 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3068 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3069 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3073 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3076 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3078 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3083 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3086 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3090 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3093 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3094 right thing. Closes: #150644
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3098 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Stupid, evil typo.
3101 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3105 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3112 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3115 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3116 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3121 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3127 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3130 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3134 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3137 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3138 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3143 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3146 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3150 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3156 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3159 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3160 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3164 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3170 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * Removing perl warning message.
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3176 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3179 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3180 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3181 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3182 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3183 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3184 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3185 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3186 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3190 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3196 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3203 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3206 debconf-mergetemplate.
3207 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3208 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3212 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3215 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3216 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3217 dh_install, which ...
3218 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3219 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3220 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3221 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3222 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3223 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3224 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3225 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3226 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3227 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3228 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3229 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3230 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3231 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3232 other minor changes.
3233 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3234 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3235 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3236 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3237 course there's -X ..)
3238 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3239 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3240 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3242 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3243 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3244 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3245 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3246 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3251 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3257 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3260 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3264 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3270 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3276 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3282 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3288 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3291 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3292 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3293 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3294 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3296 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3297 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3301 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3307 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3310 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3314 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3317 upset. Closes: #131322
3319 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3321 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3324 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3325 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3326 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3327 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3328 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3329 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3330 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3331 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3332 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3333 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3334 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3335 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3336 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3337 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3338 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3340 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3344 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3347 - Better indenting of generated code.
3348 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3352 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3356 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3357 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3358 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3359 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3360 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3361 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3362 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3366 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3369 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3373 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3376 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3377 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3378 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3379 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3380 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3381 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3382 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3383 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3384 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3385 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3386 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3387 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3388 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3389 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3390 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3395 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3401 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3404 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3405 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3409 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3412 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3413 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3417 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3423 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3426 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3427 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3428 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3429 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3430 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3435 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3441 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3444 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3448 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3451 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3456 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3462 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3465 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3469 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3475 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3479 Also some indentation fixes.
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3483 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3486 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3487 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3488 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3489 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3490 Closes: #106514, #85520
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3494 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3500 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3506 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3512 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3518 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3524 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3527 change it in debhelper v4..
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3531 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3537 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3540 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3544 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3547 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3551 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3557 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3560 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3561 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3562 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3563 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3564 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3565 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3566 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3567 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3568 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3569 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3570 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3571 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3575 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3578 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3582 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3589 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3592 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3593 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3594 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3595 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3596 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3597 program those options go to. So, for example,
3598 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3599 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3600 something complex. Closes: #89311
3601 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3605 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3608 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3609 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3610 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3614 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3617 through loop. Closes: #98598
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3621 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * Missing semi-colon.
3624 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3625 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3629 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3632 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3633 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3634 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3638 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3641 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3642 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3646 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3649 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3653 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3656 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3657 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3661 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3664 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3665 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3666 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3670 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3673 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3674 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3675 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3679 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3682 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3686 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3692 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3698 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3704 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3710 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3713 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3717 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3720 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3721 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3722 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3723 followed. Closes: #85483
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3727 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3729 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3730 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3731 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3735 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3738 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3739 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3740 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3741 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3742 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3743 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3744 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3745 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3746 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3747 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3748 Closes: #88464, #77743
3749 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3750 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3751 us to deal with that gracefully.
3752 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3754 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3755 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3756 a while, Closes: #51225
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3760 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3766 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3769 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3773 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3777 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3782 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3785 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3786 don't make packlist files.
3787 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3788 debhelper coding standards.
3789 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3790 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3794 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3797 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3801 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3804 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3805 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3806 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3807 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3808 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3809 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3810 but is mildly deprecated.
3811 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3812 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3813 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3814 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3815 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3816 switching to statoverrides..
3817 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3818 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3819 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3820 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3821 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3822 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3824 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3825 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3826 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3827 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3828 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3829 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3830 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3831 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3832 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3834 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3835 variable names, pod man pages).
3836 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3837 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3838 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3839 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3840 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3841 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3842 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3846 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3852 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3859 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3862 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3866 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3868 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3869 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3870 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3874 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3876 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3877 they were previously ignored.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3881 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3883 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3884 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3888 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3890 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3891 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3892 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3896 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3898 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3902 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3904 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3905 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3909 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3911 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3912 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3913 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3914 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3915 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3916 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3917 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3918 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3919 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3920 it is an obsolete program.
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3924 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3926 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3930 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3934 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3936 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3940 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3942 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3944 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3946 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3950 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3956 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * typo: Closes, #78567
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3962 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3968 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3974 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3977 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3978 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3979 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3980 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3981 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3985 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3988 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3993 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3996 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3997 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3998 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3999 backwards-compatibility.
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4003 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4006 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4007 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4008 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4009 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4010 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4011 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4013 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4014 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4015 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4017 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4019 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4020 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4021 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4022 should now be raised to severity important..
4023 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4024 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4028 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4031 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4036 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4042 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4048 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4054 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4061 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4064 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4065 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4066 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4067 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4071 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4077 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4080 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4081 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4082 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4083 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4084 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4085 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4090 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4093 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4097 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4103 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4106 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4111 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4114 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4115 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4116 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4117 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4121 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4125 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4128 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4131 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4132 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4135 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4137 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4138 the TODO entry about it.
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4142 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4149 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4152 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4153 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4157 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4160 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4161 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4162 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4163 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4167 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4180 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4183 (this appears to be logal).
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4190 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4191 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4192 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4193 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4203 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4206 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4207 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4208 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4209 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4213 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4222 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4226 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4233 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4236 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4237 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4238 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4243 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4250 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4256 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4259 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4260 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4261 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4262 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4263 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4264 notice until v2 is complete.
4265 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4266 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4267 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4268 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4269 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4270 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4272 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4273 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4274 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4275 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4279 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4285 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4292 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4295 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4299 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4306 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4309 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4310 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4311 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4312 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4317 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4320 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4321 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4322 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4327 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4330 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4331 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4335 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4338 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4342 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4345 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4349 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4356 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4359 depend on the build and install targets.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4363 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4366 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4370 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4377 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4383 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4389 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4392 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4393 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4394 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4395 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4396 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4397 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4399 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4400 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4401 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4402 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4403 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4404 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4405 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4409 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4415 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4421 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4424 right place. Closes: #55065
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4428 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4435 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4438 * Copyright date updates.
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4442 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4445 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4450 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4456 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4463 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4469 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4475 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4481 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4484 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4485 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4486 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4487 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4488 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4489 bits until all files have been registered.
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4493 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * dh_installmanpages:
4496 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4497 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4498 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4499 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4500 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4501 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4502 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4503 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4504 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4505 otherwise change the result at all.
4507 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4508 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4509 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4510 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4511 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4516 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4522 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4525 act on files that don't exist.
4526 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4527 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4528 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4530 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4531 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4532 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4533 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4537 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4543 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4549 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4552 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4556 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4559 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4561 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4562 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4563 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4567 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4570 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4571 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4572 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4573 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4574 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4575 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4576 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4578 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4580 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4584 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4586 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4591 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4597 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4603 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4606 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4610 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4616 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4622 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4625 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4626 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4627 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4628 I made some changes, though:
4629 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4630 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4631 that is a clear violation of policy.
4632 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4633 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4634 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4635 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4636 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4637 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4638 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4639 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4640 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4642 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4646 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4652 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4655 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4659 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4662 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4663 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4668 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4674 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4681 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4684 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4685 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4686 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4687 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4688 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4689 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4690 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4694 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4700 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4704 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4705 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4709 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4715 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4718 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4722 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4725 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4726 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4730 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4732 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4737 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4741 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4745 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4748 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4749 for the dependancies to be generated.
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4753 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4755 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4756 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4760 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4763 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4764 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4765 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4770 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4773 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4774 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4778 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4784 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4790 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4793 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4797 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4803 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4806 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4807 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4808 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4809 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4810 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4811 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4812 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4813 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4814 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4815 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4816 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4817 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4821 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4824 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4825 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4827 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4828 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4829 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4830 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4831 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4832 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4834 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4835 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4839 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4842 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4846 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4853 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4855 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4856 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4861 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4864 for building debhelper.
4865 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4869 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4876 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4879 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4883 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4886 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4887 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4888 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4889 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4890 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4891 it's always available.
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4895 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4898 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4899 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4900 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4904 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4907 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4908 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4912 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4914 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4918 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4921 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4925 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4931 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4933 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4934 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4935 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4936 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4940 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4943 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4948 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4951 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4952 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4954 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4955 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4959 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4961 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4965 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4971 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4974 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4978 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4980 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4981 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4982 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4984 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4988 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4991 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4992 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4993 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4997 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5000 things if CDPATH is set.
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5004 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5010 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5013 seems to make sense for the transition.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5017 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5020 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5025 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5028 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5029 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5033 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5036 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5040 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5043 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5044 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5045 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5046 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5050 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5056 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5059 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5060 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5061 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5062 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5063 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5064 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5065 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5066 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5067 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5068 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5073 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5075 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5076 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5077 * README: mention doc/v2
5078 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5079 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5083 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5085 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5086 be using this script RSN.
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5090 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5093 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5094 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5095 more than 1 init script.
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5099 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5102 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5106 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * Changed perl version detection.
5109 * Changed call to find.
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5113 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5116 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5118 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5123 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * Really include dh_installpam.
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5129 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5132 * Wrote man page for same.
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5136 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5139 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5140 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5145 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5152 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5155 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5156 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5157 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5158 x bit was being set!
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5162 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5165 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5166 well. (Closes: 38900)
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5170 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5173 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5174 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5178 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5184 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5191 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5197 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5200 help from Julian Gilbey.
5201 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5202 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5203 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5204 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5205 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5206 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5207 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5212 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5218 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5225 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5231 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5237 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5240 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5244 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5247 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5251 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5254 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5258 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5264 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5267 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5271 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5273 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5277 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5283 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5286 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5287 may be deleted. (#35845)
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5291 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * Various man page enhancements.
5294 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5299 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5302 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5303 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5307 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5310 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5311 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5312 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5314 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5315 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5320 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5326 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * Another very minor typo fix.
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5332 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * Very minor typo fix.
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5338 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5341 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5342 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5346 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5352 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5355 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5356 variables properly (#34850).
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5360 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5362 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5366 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5369 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5370 (automatically generated by build process).
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5374 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5376 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5380 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5383 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5384 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5386 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5390 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5393 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5397 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * README: minor typo fix.
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5403 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5406 leave it at that. :-)
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5410 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5416 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5422 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5425 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5426 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5427 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5431 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5434 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5438 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5441 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5445 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5448 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5449 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5450 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5451 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5455 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5458 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5459 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5460 Craig Small for spotting this.
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5464 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5467 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5468 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5472 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5478 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5480 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5481 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5485 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5487 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5488 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5489 working on the last version of debhelper.
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5493 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5495 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5496 being made. (#23255)
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5500 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5506 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5509 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5513 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5516 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5517 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5518 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5519 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5523 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5526 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5527 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5528 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5529 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5531 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5532 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5534 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5539 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5545 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5551 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5554 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5555 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5556 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5557 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5558 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5559 suidregister actually supports it.
5560 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5561 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5565 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5572 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5575 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5576 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5577 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5578 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5579 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5580 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5581 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5585 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5587 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5588 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5592 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5595 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5596 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5597 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5598 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5602 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5605 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5607 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5608 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5609 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5610 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5611 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5612 effect, either. (#30118)
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5616 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5622 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5625 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5626 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5630 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5632 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5636 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5638 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5639 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5640 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5641 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5642 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5646 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5649 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5650 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5654 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5660 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5663 packages, painlessly.
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5667 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5673 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5679 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5685 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * The perl conversion is complete.
5689 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5691 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5692 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5693 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5698 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5701 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5702 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5703 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5707 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5710 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5712 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5714 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5715 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5719 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5721 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5722 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5723 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5727 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5733 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5736 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5737 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5738 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5739 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5740 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5744 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5747 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5748 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5749 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5750 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5754 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5757 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5761 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5764 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5765 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5766 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5767 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5768 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5769 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5770 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5771 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5775 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5781 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5784 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5785 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5786 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5791 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5794 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5798 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5801 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5805 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5808 sections of shared libraries.
5809 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5810 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5811 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5812 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5813 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5814 things you don't want them to.
5815 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5816 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5820 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5823 shared libraries. (#26414)
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5827 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5829 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5830 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5831 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5832 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5836 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5840 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5842 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5843 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5844 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5845 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5846 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5850 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5853 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5857 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5860 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5861 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5866 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5869 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5873 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5875 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5876 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5877 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5878 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5879 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5880 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5882 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5883 remove debian/files properly.
5884 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5885 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5886 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5887 * Removed bogus menu file.
5889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5891 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5893 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5894 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5898 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5900 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5901 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5902 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5903 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5904 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5905 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5906 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5910 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5912 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5913 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5914 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5915 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5916 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5920 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5922 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5927 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5930 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5931 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5933 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5934 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5935 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5936 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5937 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5938 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5942 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5944 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5945 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5946 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5947 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5948 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5949 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5950 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5951 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5952 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5953 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5954 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5955 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5956 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5957 passed any switches.
5958 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5962 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5965 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5966 at all for a long while.
5967 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5968 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5969 large chunks in the process.
5970 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5971 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5972 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5977 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5980 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5982 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5987 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5989 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5990 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5991 that don't always have the same files in them.
5992 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5993 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5994 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5998 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6002 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6003 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6004 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6005 updating 27 man pages.
6006 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6007 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6008 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6009 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6010 programs act on. (#25247)
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6014 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6018 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6019 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6020 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6021 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6022 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6023 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6028 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6030 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6035 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6037 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6042 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6045 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6049 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6055 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6058 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6059 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6060 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6061 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6062 package by accident.
6063 * Is version 1.0 next?
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6067 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6070 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6071 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6075 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6078 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6079 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6080 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6081 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6082 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6084 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6089 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6091 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6092 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6093 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6097 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6099 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6100 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6104 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6106 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6107 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6108 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6113 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6119 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6121 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6122 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6123 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6128 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6134 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6137 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6138 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6139 past week. Thanks, guys!
6141 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6142 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6143 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6144 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6145 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6146 would do in the same situation.
6147 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6148 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6150 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6152 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6153 permissions changed.
6154 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6155 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6156 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6157 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6158 files are treated identically.
6159 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6160 * Minor man page fixes.
6161 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6162 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6163 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6167 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6169 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6170 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6171 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6172 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6173 use -X multiple times, too.
6174 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6175 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6179 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6181 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6182 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6183 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6187 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6189 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6190 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6194 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6196 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6197 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6198 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6199 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6200 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6201 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6202 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6203 shape if you're starting a new package.
6205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6207 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6209 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6210 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6214 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6216 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6217 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6218 because of missing symlinks.
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6222 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6228 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6231 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6232 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6233 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6234 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6235 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6237 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6238 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6242 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6244 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6245 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6246 to be changed after the fact :-)
6247 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6251 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6253 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6254 no version string after the -V.
6256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6258 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6260 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6261 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6266 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6268 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6269 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6273 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6275 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6276 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6277 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6278 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6279 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6280 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6281 I always welcome corrections!
6283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6285 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6287 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6291 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6293 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6294 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6295 * Documented this new switch.
6297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6299 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6301 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6302 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6303 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6304 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6305 no packages use the old behavior.
6307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6309 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6311 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6312 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6313 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6317 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6319 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6320 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6324 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6330 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6333 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6337 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6339 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6340 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6341 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6342 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6346 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6348 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6352 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6354 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6355 into the source package by accident.
6357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6359 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6361 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6362 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6363 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6364 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6365 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6366 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6367 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6372 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6374 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6376 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6377 inspired to implement some of it.
6378 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6382 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6384 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6385 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6389 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6391 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6392 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6393 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6397 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6399 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6400 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6401 have done.) (#17598)
6403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6405 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6407 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6411 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6413 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6417 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6419 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6420 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6424 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6426 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6427 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6428 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6432 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6434 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6435 argument processor in perl.
6436 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6437 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6438 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6439 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6443 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6445 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6446 type directories. (#16933)
6447 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6448 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6449 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6450 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6451 are supported. (#16935)
6452 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6457 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6459 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6460 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6464 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6466 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6468 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6469 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6470 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6471 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6472 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6473 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6477 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6479 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6480 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6481 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6483 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6484 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6485 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6486 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6487 a given package, or -i or -a.
6488 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6489 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6490 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6491 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6492 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6493 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6494 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6495 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6496 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6498 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6499 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6500 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6504 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6506 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6507 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6508 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6513 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6515 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6516 does not have a section.
6518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6520 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6522 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6523 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6524 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6525 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6529 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6531 * Fixed typo #16215.
6533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6535 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6537 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6538 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6539 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6540 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6541 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6542 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6547 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6549 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6550 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6551 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6552 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6557 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6559 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6563 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6565 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6569 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6571 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6572 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6573 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6574 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6575 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6576 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6577 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6581 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6587 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6589 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6590 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6594 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6596 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6597 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6598 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6599 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6603 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6605 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6606 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6610 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6612 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6616 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6618 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6619 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6623 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6625 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6626 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6630 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6632 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6636 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6638 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6639 postinst, postrm, etc.
6641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6643 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6645 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6649 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6651 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6652 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6653 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6654 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6655 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6656 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6660 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6662 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6663 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6664 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6668 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6670 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6671 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6675 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6677 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6678 installing package files into.
6679 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6684 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6686 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6688 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6692 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6694 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6698 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6700 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6701 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6705 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6707 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6708 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6709 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6710 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6711 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6715 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6717 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6718 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6719 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6720 multiple binary packages.
6721 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6722 should rebuild them with this version.
6723 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6727 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6729 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6730 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6734 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6736 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6737 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6741 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6743 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6744 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6745 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6746 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6747 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6748 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6749 debian/README.debian.
6750 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6751 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6752 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6753 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6754 in a few situations.)
6756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6758 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6760 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6764 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6766 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6770 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6772 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6773 * Fixed several man pages.
6775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6777 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6779 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6780 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6781 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6785 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6787 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6788 is ready for general use.
6789 * Added man pages for all commands.
6790 * Multiple binary package support.
6791 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6792 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6793 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6795 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6796 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6797 auto-installed as parameters.
6798 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6800 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6803 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6804 the package build directory it is to act on.
6805 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6806 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6807 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6811 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6813 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6814 ready to replace debstd.
6816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400