1 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
4 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
6 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
12 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
14 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
15 Use override targets instead.
16 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
17 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
18 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
19 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
20 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
21 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
22 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
23 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
24 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
25 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
30 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
33 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
37 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
43 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
46 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
47 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
48 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
49 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
50 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
51 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
55 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
58 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
59 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
60 the targets. Closes: #629139
62 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
63 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
64 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
65 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
66 are already set to other values will not be changed.
68 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
69 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
70 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
71 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
72 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
77 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
83 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
86 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
87 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
91 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
94 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
95 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
96 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
97 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
98 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
99 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
100 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
105 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
109 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
110 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
112 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
113 changes may be added to that mode.
114 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
115 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
116 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
117 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
118 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
119 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
120 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
121 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
122 * Removed old example rules files.
123 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
127 * update french translation.
128 * Fix french misspelling.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
132 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
135 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
139 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
142 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
143 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
144 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
145 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
146 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
147 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
148 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
152 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
155 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
156 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
157 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
158 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
159 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
160 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
162 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
163 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
164 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
165 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
166 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
167 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
168 (Thanks, David Prévot)
169 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
170 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
171 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
172 target fails. Closes: #601037
173 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
175 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
176 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
177 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
178 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
179 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
181 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
182 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
184 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
185 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
186 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
188 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
190 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
193 * update french translation.
194 * Fix french misspelling.
195 * French translation update after massive man page typography
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
199 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
202 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
205 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
209 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
211 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
215 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
217 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
218 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
219 introduced by the fix to #527990.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
223 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
226 changes are planned for that mode.
227 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
228 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
229 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
230 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
231 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
232 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
233 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
234 (genesis) still uses them.
235 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
236 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
237 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
238 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
239 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
240 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
241 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
242 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
243 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
244 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
245 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
246 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
247 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
248 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
249 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
250 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
251 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
252 commands. (See #570039)
253 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
255 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
260 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
264 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
265 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
266 in control file or debhelper config files.
267 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
271 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
274 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
275 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
279 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
282 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
286 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
289 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
290 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
294 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Updated French translation.
297 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
298 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
299 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
300 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
302 * Typo. Closes: #571968
303 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
304 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
305 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
306 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
307 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
308 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
309 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
310 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
311 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
313 * dh: Improve documentation.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
317 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
319 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
320 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
321 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
325 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
328 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
332 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
334 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
335 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
339 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
342 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
343 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
344 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
345 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
346 options that they do not support.
347 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
348 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
349 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
350 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
351 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
352 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
357 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
361 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
362 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
363 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
364 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
365 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
366 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
367 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
368 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
369 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
373 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
375 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
376 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
377 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
378 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
379 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
383 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Typo. Closes: #558654
386 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
387 installed. Closes: #558782
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
391 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
394 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
395 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
396 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
397 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
398 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
402 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
404 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
405 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
406 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
407 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
411 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
414 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
415 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
419 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
421 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
425 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
427 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
428 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
429 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
430 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
431 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
432 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
433 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
434 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
435 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
436 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
437 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
438 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
439 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
440 time soon.) Closes: #554509
441 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
443 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
444 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
445 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
446 document id. Closes: #555677
447 * Typo. Closes: #555659
448 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
449 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
450 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
451 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
453 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
454 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
455 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
460 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
463 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
464 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
465 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
466 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
467 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
468 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
469 translation (#494300 part 2)
472 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
474 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
475 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
476 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
477 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
478 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
482 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
484 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
485 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
486 (It was only run once due to logging.)
487 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
488 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
489 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
490 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
491 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
492 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
493 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
494 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
495 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
496 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
500 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
504 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
507 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
508 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
512 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
515 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
516 flag with arch all/any packages.
517 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
518 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
519 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
520 situation. Closes: #540794
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
524 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
528 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
529 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
530 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
531 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
532 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
535 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
536 the default. Closes: #538201
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
541 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
545 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
546 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
547 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
548 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
549 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
551 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
552 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
553 * Above Closes: #491117
554 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
559 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
565 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
566 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
567 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
571 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
574 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
575 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
576 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
577 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
578 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
583 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
586 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
587 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
591 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
593 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
597 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
599 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
600 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
602 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
603 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
604 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
608 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
610 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
611 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
615 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
621 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
623 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
624 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
625 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
630 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
632 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
636 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
639 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
640 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
641 created by using `python' first during build and install.
643 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
648 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
650 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
654 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
656 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
657 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
661 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
663 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
667 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
669 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
673 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
675 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
676 contributed by Modestas Vainius
677 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
678 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
679 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
680 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
681 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
682 that support it. Closes: #480577
683 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
684 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
685 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
687 - Adds support for cmake.
688 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
689 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
691 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
693 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
694 that use them. The options are:
695 --sourcedir, --destdir
696 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
697 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
698 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
699 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
700 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
704 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
710 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
713 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
714 default. Closes: #537140
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
718 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
721 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
722 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
726 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
729 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
733 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
736 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
740 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
743 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
745 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
746 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
747 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
751 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
754 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
755 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
756 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
760 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
763 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
764 warning or deprecation message.
765 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
766 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
767 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
768 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
769 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
770 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
771 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
772 Closes: #534639, #357434
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
776 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
782 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
784 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
785 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
786 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
787 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
788 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
790 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
791 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
792 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
796 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
802 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
809 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
812 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
816 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
820 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
821 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
823 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
824 file support. Closes: #494914
825 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
829 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
832 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
833 parameters. Closes: #527256
834 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
835 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
836 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
840 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
844 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
845 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
846 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
850 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
853 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
854 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
855 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
859 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
862 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
863 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
865 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
866 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
867 by triggers). Closes: #521181
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
871 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
875 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
879 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
882 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
883 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
884 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
885 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
890 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
896 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
899 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
900 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
901 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
902 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
903 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
905 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
906 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
907 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
908 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
909 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
910 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
914 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
917 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
918 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
919 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
920 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
921 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
923 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
927 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
929 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
933 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
935 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
936 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
937 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
938 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
939 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
940 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
941 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
942 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
943 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
944 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
945 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
949 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
951 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
952 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
954 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
955 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
956 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
957 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
959 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
960 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
964 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
966 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
967 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
968 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
969 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
970 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
971 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
972 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
974 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
975 that uses them. Affected options are:
976 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
977 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
978 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
979 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
980 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
981 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
982 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
983 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
984 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
985 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
986 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
987 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
991 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
998 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1004 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1007 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1009 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1010 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1011 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1012 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1013 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1014 than the old method.
1015 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1017 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1018 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1019 rules (see bug #509756).
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1023 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1029 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1030 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1031 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1032 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1036 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1039 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1040 empty files. Closes: #490937
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1044 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1050 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1057 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1060 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1061 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1062 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1063 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1068 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1070 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1071 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1072 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1073 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1077 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1080 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1081 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1082 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1083 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1084 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1088 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1095 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1098 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1099 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1100 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1101 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1102 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1103 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1104 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1105 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1106 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1110 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1113 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1114 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1115 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1116 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1118 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1119 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1120 breaking backwards compatibility.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1124 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1127 message in perl 5.10.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1131 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1137 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1140 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1144 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1147 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1151 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1154 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1155 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1156 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1157 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1158 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1159 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1160 logging by dh_listpackages.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1164 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1167 run and there are no packages of that type.
1168 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1169 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1170 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1171 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1173 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1174 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1178 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1181 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1182 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1186 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1189 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1190 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1192 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1193 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1194 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1195 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1196 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1197 planned but not yet implemented.)
1198 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1199 if the Makefile has such a target.
1200 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1201 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1202 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1203 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1204 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1205 but not yet implemented.)
1206 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1207 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1208 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1209 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1210 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1212 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1214 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1215 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1217 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1218 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1219 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1224 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1227 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1228 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1232 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1234 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1235 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1236 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1240 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1246 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1252 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1255 just those installed by the program.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1259 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1262 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1263 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1267 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1270 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1271 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1272 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1273 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1277 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1280 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1281 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1285 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1288 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1289 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1293 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1296 with policy. Closes: #461392
1297 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1298 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1299 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1300 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1301 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1305 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1308 Closes: #460340, #460351
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1312 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1315 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1316 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1317 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1318 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1322 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1325 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1326 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1327 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1328 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1329 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1330 package build directory won't work.
1331 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1332 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1333 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1334 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1335 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1336 mode. Closes: #459426
1337 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1342 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1345 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1349 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1353 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1354 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1355 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1356 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1357 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1358 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1362 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1365 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1366 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1367 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1368 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1372 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1375 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1376 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1377 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1378 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1379 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1383 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1386 debian/package.triggers files.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1390 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1393 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1397 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1400 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1401 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1402 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1403 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1408 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1411 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1415 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1418 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1419 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1421 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1426 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1430 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1431 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1432 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1436 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1443 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1450 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1453 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1455 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1456 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1457 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1459 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1460 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1461 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1465 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1468 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1469 * Update urls to web page.
1470 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1471 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1472 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1473 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1477 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1480 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1481 - typo in alternatives call
1482 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1484 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1485 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1489 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1492 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1497 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1503 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1509 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1512 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1514 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1515 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1516 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1517 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1518 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1519 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1520 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1521 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1522 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1523 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1524 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1528 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1531 package install. Closes: #415717
1532 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1533 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1534 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1535 script and then remove the python files.
1536 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1537 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1538 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1539 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1540 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1541 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1542 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1543 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1544 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1545 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1546 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1547 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1548 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1552 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Correct typo in french translation
1558 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1559 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1561 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1563 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1564 Closes: #406921, #381940
1565 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1567 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1568 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1569 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1570 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1571 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1572 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1573 specified). Closes: #381851
1574 * Misc minor changes.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1578 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1585 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1586 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1590 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1596 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1597 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1600 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1601 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1603 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1604 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1605 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1606 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1610 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1613 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1616 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1620 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1626 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1632 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1633 a difficult situation.
1634 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1635 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1636 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1637 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1638 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1639 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1640 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1641 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1642 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1643 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1647 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Non-maintainer upload.
1650 * Update of dh_python
1651 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1652 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1654 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1655 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1656 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1657 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1658 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1660 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1662 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Non-maintainer upload.
1665 * Update of dh_python
1666 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1667 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1668 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1669 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1670 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1671 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1672 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1673 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1674 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1675 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1677 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1678 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1679 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1680 the not too-distant future).
1681 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1682 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1683 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1684 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1685 thus made the build fail.
1687 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1689 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Non-maintainer upload.
1692 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1694 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1696 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1699 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1700 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1701 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1702 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1703 package. Closes: #301424
1704 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1705 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1706 fonts). Closes: #372686
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1710 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1716 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1717 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1718 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1719 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1720 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1721 above, but already depends on that.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1725 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1728 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1729 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1730 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1731 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1732 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1736 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1742 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1748 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1749 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1753 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1756 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1760 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1764 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1765 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1766 new version (0.24.1).
1767 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1768 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1771 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1772 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1773 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1774 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1775 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1776 new directory on their own.
1777 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1778 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1782 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1785 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1786 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1787 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1788 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1792 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1795 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1796 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1797 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1798 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1799 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1803 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1809 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1813 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1814 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1818 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1819 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1823 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1825 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1826 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1828 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1829 ignored. Closes: #337664
1831 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1836 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1842 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1847 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1848 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1849 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1850 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1851 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1852 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1853 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1857 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1860 version. Closes: #350607
1861 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1862 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1863 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1864 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1868 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1871 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1872 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1873 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1877 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1884 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1890 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1893 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1897 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1900 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1901 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1902 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1903 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1904 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1905 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1909 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1912 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1913 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1918 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1921 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1925 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1928 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1932 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1935 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1936 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1937 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1938 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1939 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1940 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1944 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1948 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1949 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1950 link. Closes: #346405
1951 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1953 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1954 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1955 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1956 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1957 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1958 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1959 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1963 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1970 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1976 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1979 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1983 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1986 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1991 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1995 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1996 installed. Closes: #342033
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2000 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2003 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2004 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2005 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2010 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2016 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2022 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2026 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2027 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2028 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2032 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2035 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2040 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2047 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2053 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2056 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2057 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2058 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2059 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2060 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2061 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2062 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2064 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2068 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2071 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2072 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2076 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2079 in standard man dirs.
2080 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2084 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2090 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2093 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2098 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2105 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2112 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2115 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2116 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2120 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2123 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2124 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2125 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2127 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2129 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2135 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2141 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2144 mode. Closes: #324161
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2148 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2151 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2152 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2153 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2154 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2159 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2162 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2163 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2164 is necesary for sanity.
2165 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2166 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2171 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2173 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2174 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2178 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2181 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2185 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2191 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2194 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2195 released, so use at your own risk.
2196 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2197 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2199 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2200 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2201 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2202 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2203 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2204 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2205 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2206 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2207 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2208 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2209 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2210 including twice per config file line now..
2211 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2212 and simplfy the rules file.
2213 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2214 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2215 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2217 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2218 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2222 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2225 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2229 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2232 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2236 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2239 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2243 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2246 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2247 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2248 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2249 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2250 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2251 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2255 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2258 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2259 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2260 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2265 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2268 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2269 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2274 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2277 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2278 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2279 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2284 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2287 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2288 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2289 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2293 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2299 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2306 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2309 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2310 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2311 unknown. Closes: #282924
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2315 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2322 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Spanish man page updates.
2325 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2330 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2336 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2339 * dh_desktop: reindent
2340 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2341 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2345 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2351 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2353 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2357 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2359 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2363 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2366 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2367 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2371 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2377 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2383 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2390 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2393 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2397 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2400 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2401 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2402 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2403 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2404 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2405 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2407 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2408 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2409 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2410 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2411 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2412 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2413 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2414 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2415 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2416 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2417 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2418 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2419 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2420 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2421 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2422 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2426 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2433 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2436 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2440 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2443 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2447 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2450 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2454 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2457 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2461 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2467 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2473 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2479 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2482 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2483 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2484 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2488 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2491 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2495 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2498 but occasionally right and necessary.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2502 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2505 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2506 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2507 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2508 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2509 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2513 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2516 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2518 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2519 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2520 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2521 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2522 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2523 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2524 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2525 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2526 postinst scripts for udebs.
2527 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2531 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2534 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2536 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2537 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2541 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2547 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2554 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2561 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2564 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2568 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2571 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2575 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2578 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2581 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2582 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2586 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2592 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2595 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2599 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2602 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2603 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2604 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2606 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2608 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2609 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2610 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2614 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2617 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2622 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2625 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2626 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2627 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2632 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2638 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2644 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2647 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2648 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2649 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2650 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2651 associated -dbg packages.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2655 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2658 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2662 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2665 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2669 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2672 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2676 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2679 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2684 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2687 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2691 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2694 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2699 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2702 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2706 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2710 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2711 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2712 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2713 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2714 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2715 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2716 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2717 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2718 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2719 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2723 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2726 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2731 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2734 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2735 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2739 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2742 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2743 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2748 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2751 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2755 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2758 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2762 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2765 out section number. Closes: #204731
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2769 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2776 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2782 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2788 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2791 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2792 removal. Closes: #204286
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2796 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2799 renaming. Closes: #203548
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2803 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2806 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2807 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2811 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2817 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2823 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2829 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2832 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2833 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2834 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2838 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2841 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2842 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2846 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2852 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2859 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2862 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2867 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2870 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2874 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2877 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2879 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2880 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2884 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2887 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2892 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2895 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2899 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2905 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2907 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2911 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2914 it break hard links (see #188663).
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2918 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2921 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2925 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2931 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2935 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2936 debconf-mergetemplates
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2940 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2943 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2947 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2950 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2954 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2957 * Update debhelper(1).
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2961 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2964 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2965 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2966 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2967 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2968 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2972 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2975 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2976 the shell. Closes: #178524
2977 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2981 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2984 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2988 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2991 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2995 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2998 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2999 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3000 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3001 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3006 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3009 files from installation.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3013 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3016 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3017 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3021 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3024 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3028 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3031 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3035 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3041 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3047 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3051 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3052 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3054 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3058 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3061 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3062 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3063 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3064 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3068 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3071 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3075 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3078 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3079 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3083 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3087 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3092 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3098 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3102 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3103 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3104 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3109 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3112 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3113 practice. Closes: #163303
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3117 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3123 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3130 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3133 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3135 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3136 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3137 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3138 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3139 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3143 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3146 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3151 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3157 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3164 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3167 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3172 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3178 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3184 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3190 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3197 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3200 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3201 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3202 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3203 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3208 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3214 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3221 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3224 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3225 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3229 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3232 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3233 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3234 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3235 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3236 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3240 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3243 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3245 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3250 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3253 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3257 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3260 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3261 right thing. Closes: #150644
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3265 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Stupid, evil typo.
3268 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3272 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3279 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3282 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3283 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3288 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3294 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3297 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3301 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3304 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3305 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3310 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3313 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3317 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3323 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3326 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3327 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3331 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3337 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Removing perl warning message.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3343 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3346 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3347 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3348 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3349 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3350 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3351 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3352 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3353 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3357 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3363 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3370 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3373 debconf-mergetemplate.
3374 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3375 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3379 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3382 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3383 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3384 dh_install, which ...
3385 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3386 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3387 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3388 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3389 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3390 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3391 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3392 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3393 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3394 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3395 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3396 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3397 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3398 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3399 other minor changes.
3400 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3401 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3402 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3403 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3404 course there's -X ..)
3405 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3406 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3407 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3409 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3410 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3411 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3412 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3413 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3418 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3424 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3427 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3431 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3437 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3443 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3449 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3455 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3458 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3459 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3460 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3461 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3463 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3464 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3468 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3474 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3477 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3481 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3484 upset. Closes: #131322
3486 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3488 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3491 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3492 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3493 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3494 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3495 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3496 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3497 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3498 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3499 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3500 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3501 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3502 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3503 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3504 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3505 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3507 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3511 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3514 - Better indenting of generated code.
3515 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3519 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3523 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3524 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3525 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3526 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3527 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3528 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3529 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3533 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3536 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3540 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3543 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3544 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3545 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3546 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3547 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3548 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3549 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3550 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3551 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3552 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3553 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3554 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3555 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3556 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3557 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3562 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3568 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3571 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3572 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3576 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3579 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3580 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3584 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3590 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3593 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3594 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3595 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3596 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3597 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3602 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3608 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3611 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3615 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3618 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3623 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3629 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3632 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3636 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3642 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3646 Also some indentation fixes.
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3650 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3653 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3654 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3655 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3656 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3657 Closes: #106514, #85520
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3661 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3667 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3673 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3679 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3685 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3691 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3694 change it in debhelper v4..
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3698 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3704 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3707 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3711 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3714 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3718 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3724 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3727 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3728 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3729 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3730 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3731 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3732 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3733 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3734 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3735 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3736 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3737 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3738 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3742 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3745 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3749 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3756 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3759 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3760 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3761 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3762 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3763 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3764 program those options go to. So, for example,
3765 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3766 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3767 something complex. Closes: #89311
3768 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3772 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3775 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3776 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3777 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3781 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3784 through loop. Closes: #98598
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3788 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * Missing semi-colon.
3791 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3792 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3796 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3799 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3800 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3801 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3805 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3808 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3809 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3813 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3816 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3820 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3823 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3824 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3828 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3831 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3832 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3833 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3837 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3840 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3841 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3842 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3846 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3849 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3853 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3859 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3865 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3871 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3877 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3880 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3884 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3887 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3888 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3889 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3890 followed. Closes: #85483
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3894 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3896 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3897 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3898 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3902 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3905 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3906 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3907 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3908 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3909 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3910 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3911 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3912 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3913 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3914 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3915 Closes: #88464, #77743
3916 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3917 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3918 us to deal with that gracefully.
3919 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3921 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3922 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3923 a while, Closes: #51225
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3927 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3933 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3936 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3940 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3944 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3949 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3952 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3953 don't make packlist files.
3954 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3955 debhelper coding standards.
3956 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3957 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3961 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3964 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3968 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3971 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3972 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3973 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3974 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3975 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3976 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3977 but is mildly deprecated.
3978 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3979 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3980 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3981 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3982 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3983 switching to statoverrides..
3984 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3985 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3986 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3987 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3988 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3989 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3991 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3992 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3993 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3994 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3995 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3996 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3997 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3998 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3999 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4001 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4002 variable names, pod man pages).
4003 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4004 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4005 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4006 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4007 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4008 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4009 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4013 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4019 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4026 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4029 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4033 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4035 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4036 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4037 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4041 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4043 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4044 they were previously ignored.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4048 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4050 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4051 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4055 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4057 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4058 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4059 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4063 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4065 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4069 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4071 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4072 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4076 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4078 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4079 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4080 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4081 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4082 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4083 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4084 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4085 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4086 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4087 it is an obsolete program.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4091 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4093 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4097 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4101 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4103 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4107 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4109 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4111 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4113 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4117 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4123 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * typo: Closes, #78567
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4129 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4135 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4141 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4144 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4145 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4146 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4147 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4148 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4152 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4155 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4160 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4163 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4164 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4165 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4166 backwards-compatibility.
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4170 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4173 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4174 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4175 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4176 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4177 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4178 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4180 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4181 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4182 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4184 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4186 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4187 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4188 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4189 should now be raised to severity important..
4190 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4191 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4195 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4198 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4203 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4209 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4215 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4221 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4228 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4231 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4232 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4233 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4234 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4238 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4244 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4247 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4248 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4249 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4250 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4251 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4252 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4257 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4260 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4264 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4270 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4273 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4278 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4281 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4282 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4283 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4284 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4288 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4292 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4295 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4298 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4299 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4302 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4304 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4305 the TODO entry about it.
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4309 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4316 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4319 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4320 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4324 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4327 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4328 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4329 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4330 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4334 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4340 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4347 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4350 (this appears to be logal).
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4357 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4358 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4359 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4360 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4364 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4370 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4373 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4374 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4375 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4376 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4380 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4386 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4389 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4400 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4403 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4404 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4405 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4410 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4417 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4423 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4426 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4427 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4428 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4429 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4430 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4431 notice until v2 is complete.
4432 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4433 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4434 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4435 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4436 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4437 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4439 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4440 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4441 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4442 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4446 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4452 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4459 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4462 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4466 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4473 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4476 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4477 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4478 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4479 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4484 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4487 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4488 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4489 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4494 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4497 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4498 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4502 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4505 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4509 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4512 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4516 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4523 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4526 depend on the build and install targets.
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4530 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4533 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4537 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4544 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4550 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4556 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4559 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4560 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4561 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4562 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4563 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4564 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4566 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4567 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4568 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4569 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4570 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4571 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4572 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4576 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4582 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4588 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4591 right place. Closes: #55065
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4595 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4602 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4605 * Copyright date updates.
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4609 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4612 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4617 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4623 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4630 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4636 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4642 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4648 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4650 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4651 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4652 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4653 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4654 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4655 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4656 bits until all files have been registered.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4660 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * dh_installmanpages:
4663 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4664 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4665 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4666 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4667 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4668 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4669 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4670 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4671 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4672 otherwise change the result at all.
4674 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4675 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4676 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4677 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4678 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4683 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4689 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4692 act on files that don't exist.
4693 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4694 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4695 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4697 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4698 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4699 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4700 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4704 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4710 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4716 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4719 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4723 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4726 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4728 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4729 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4730 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4734 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4737 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4738 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4739 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4740 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4741 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4742 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4743 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4745 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4747 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4751 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4758 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4764 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4770 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4773 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4777 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4783 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4789 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4792 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4793 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4794 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4795 I made some changes, though:
4796 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4797 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4798 that is a clear violation of policy.
4799 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4800 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4801 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4802 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4803 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4804 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4805 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4806 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4807 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4809 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4813 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4819 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4822 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4826 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4828 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4829 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4830 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4835 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4841 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4848 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4851 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4852 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4853 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4854 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4855 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4856 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4857 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4861 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4867 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4871 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4872 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4876 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4882 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4885 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4889 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4892 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4893 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4897 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4899 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4904 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4908 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4912 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4914 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4915 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4916 for the dependancies to be generated.
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4920 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4923 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4927 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4930 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4931 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4932 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4937 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4940 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4941 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4945 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4951 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4957 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4960 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4964 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4970 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4973 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4974 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4975 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4976 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4977 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4978 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4979 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4980 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4981 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4982 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4983 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4984 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4988 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4991 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4992 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4994 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4995 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4996 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4997 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4998 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4999 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5001 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5002 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5006 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5009 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5013 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5020 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5023 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5028 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5031 for building debhelper.
5032 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5036 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5043 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5046 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5050 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5053 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5054 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5055 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5056 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5057 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5058 it's always available.
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5062 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5065 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5066 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5067 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5071 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5074 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5075 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5079 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5085 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5088 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5092 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5098 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5101 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5102 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5103 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5107 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5110 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5115 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5118 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5119 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5121 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5122 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5126 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5132 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5138 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5141 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5145 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5148 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5149 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5151 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5155 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5158 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5159 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5160 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5164 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5167 things if CDPATH is set.
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5171 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5177 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5180 seems to make sense for the transition.
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5184 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5187 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5192 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5195 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5196 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5200 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5203 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5207 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5210 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5211 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5212 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5213 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5217 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5223 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5226 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5227 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5228 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5229 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5230 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5231 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5232 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5233 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5234 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5235 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5240 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5243 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5244 * README: mention doc/v2
5245 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5246 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5250 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5252 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5253 be using this script RSN.
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5257 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5260 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5261 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5262 more than 1 init script.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5266 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5269 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5273 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * Changed perl version detection.
5276 * Changed call to find.
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5280 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5283 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5285 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5290 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * Really include dh_installpam.
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5296 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5299 * Wrote man page for same.
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5303 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5306 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5307 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5312 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5319 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5322 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5323 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5324 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5325 x bit was being set!
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5329 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5332 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5333 well. (Closes: 38900)
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5337 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5340 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5341 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5345 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5351 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5358 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5364 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5367 help from Julian Gilbey.
5368 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5369 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5370 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5371 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5372 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5373 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5374 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5379 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5385 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5392 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5398 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5404 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5407 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5411 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5414 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5418 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5421 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5425 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5431 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5434 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5438 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5444 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5450 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5453 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5454 may be deleted. (#35845)
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5458 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * Various man page enhancements.
5461 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5466 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5469 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5470 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5474 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5477 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5478 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5479 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5481 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5482 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5487 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5493 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5495 * Another very minor typo fix.
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5499 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * Very minor typo fix.
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5505 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5507 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5508 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5509 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5513 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5519 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5522 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5523 variables properly (#34850).
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5527 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5533 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5536 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5537 (automatically generated by build process).
5539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5541 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5543 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5547 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5550 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5551 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5553 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5557 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5559 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5560 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5564 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * README: minor typo fix.
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5570 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5573 leave it at that. :-)
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5577 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5583 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5589 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5592 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5593 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5594 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5598 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5601 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5605 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5608 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5612 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5615 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5616 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5617 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5618 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5622 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5625 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5626 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5627 Craig Small for spotting this.
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5631 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5634 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5635 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5639 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5645 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5648 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5652 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5654 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5655 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5656 working on the last version of debhelper.
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5660 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5663 being made. (#23255)
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5667 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5673 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5676 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5680 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5683 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5684 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5685 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5686 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5690 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5693 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5694 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5695 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5696 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5698 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5699 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5701 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5706 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5712 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5718 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5721 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5722 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5723 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5724 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5725 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5726 suidregister actually supports it.
5727 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5728 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5732 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5739 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5742 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5743 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5744 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5745 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5746 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5747 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5748 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5752 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5754 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5755 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5759 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5761 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5762 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5763 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5764 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5765 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5769 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5772 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5774 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5775 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5776 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5777 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5778 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5779 effect, either. (#30118)
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5783 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5789 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5791 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5792 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5793 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5797 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5803 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5806 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5807 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5808 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5809 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5813 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5815 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5816 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5817 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5821 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5823 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5827 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5830 packages, painlessly.
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5834 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5840 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5846 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5848 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5852 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * The perl conversion is complete.
5856 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5858 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5859 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5860 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5865 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5867 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5868 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5869 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5870 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5874 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5877 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5879 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5881 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5882 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5886 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5888 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5889 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5890 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5894 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5896 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5900 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5902 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5903 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5904 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5905 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5906 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5907 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5911 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5914 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5915 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5916 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5917 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5921 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5924 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5928 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5930 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5931 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5932 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5933 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5934 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5935 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5936 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5937 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5938 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5942 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5944 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5948 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5951 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5952 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5953 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5958 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5960 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5961 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5965 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5968 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5972 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5975 sections of shared libraries.
5976 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5977 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5978 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5979 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5980 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5981 things you don't want them to.
5982 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5983 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5987 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5989 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5990 shared libraries. (#26414)
5992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5994 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5996 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5997 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5998 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5999 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6003 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6005 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6007 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6009 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6010 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6011 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6012 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6013 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6017 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6019 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6020 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6024 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6027 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6028 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6033 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6036 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6040 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6042 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6043 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6044 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6045 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6046 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6047 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6049 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6050 remove debian/files properly.
6051 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6052 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6053 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6054 * Removed bogus menu file.
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6058 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6061 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6065 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6067 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6068 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6069 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6070 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6071 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6072 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6073 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6077 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6079 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6080 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6081 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6082 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6083 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6087 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6094 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6097 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6098 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6100 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6101 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6102 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6103 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6104 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6105 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6109 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6111 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6112 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6113 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6114 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6115 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6116 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6117 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6118 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6119 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6120 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6121 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6122 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6123 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6124 passed any switches.
6125 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6129 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6131 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6132 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6133 at all for a long while.
6134 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6135 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6136 large chunks in the process.
6137 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6138 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6139 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6144 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6146 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6147 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6149 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6154 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6156 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6157 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6158 that don't always have the same files in them.
6159 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6160 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6161 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6165 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6167 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6169 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6170 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6171 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6172 updating 27 man pages.
6173 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6174 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6175 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6176 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6177 programs act on. (#25247)
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6181 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6185 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6186 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6187 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6188 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6189 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6190 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6195 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6197 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6202 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6204 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6209 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6211 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6212 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6216 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6222 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6225 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6226 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6227 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6228 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6229 package by accident.
6230 * Is version 1.0 next?
6232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6234 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6236 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6237 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6238 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6242 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6244 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6245 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6246 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6247 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6248 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6249 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6251 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6256 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6258 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6259 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6260 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6264 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6266 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6267 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6271 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6273 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6274 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6275 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6280 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6282 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6286 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6289 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6290 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6295 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6297 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6301 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6303 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6304 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6305 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6306 past week. Thanks, guys!
6308 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6309 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6310 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6311 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6312 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6313 would do in the same situation.
6314 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6315 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6317 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6319 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6320 permissions changed.
6321 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6322 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6323 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6324 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6325 files are treated identically.
6326 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6327 * Minor man page fixes.
6328 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6329 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6330 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6334 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6336 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6337 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6338 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6339 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6340 use -X multiple times, too.
6341 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6342 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6346 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6348 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6349 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6350 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6354 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6356 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6357 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6361 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6363 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6364 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6365 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6366 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6367 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6368 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6369 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6370 shape if you're starting a new package.
6372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6374 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6376 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6377 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6381 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6383 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6384 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6385 because of missing symlinks.
6387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6389 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6391 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6395 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6397 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6398 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6399 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6400 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6401 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6402 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6404 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6405 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6409 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6411 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6412 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6413 to be changed after the fact :-)
6414 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6418 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6420 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6421 no version string after the -V.
6423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6425 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6427 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6428 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6433 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6435 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6436 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6440 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6442 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6443 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6444 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6445 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6446 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6447 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6448 I always welcome corrections!
6450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6452 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6454 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6458 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6460 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6461 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6462 * Documented this new switch.
6464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6466 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6468 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6469 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6470 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6471 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6472 no packages use the old behavior.
6474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6476 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6478 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6479 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6480 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6484 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6486 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6487 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6491 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6493 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6497 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6499 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6500 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6504 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6506 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6507 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6508 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6509 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6513 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6515 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6519 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6521 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6522 into the source package by accident.
6524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6526 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6528 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6529 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6530 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6531 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6532 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6533 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6534 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6539 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6541 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6543 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6544 inspired to implement some of it.
6545 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6549 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6551 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6552 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6556 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6558 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6559 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6560 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6564 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6566 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6567 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6568 have done.) (#17598)
6570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6572 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6574 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6578 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6580 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6584 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6586 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6587 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6591 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6593 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6594 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6595 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6599 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6601 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6602 argument processor in perl.
6603 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6604 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6605 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6606 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6610 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6612 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6613 type directories. (#16933)
6614 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6615 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6616 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6617 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6618 are supported. (#16935)
6619 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6624 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6626 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6627 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6631 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6633 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6635 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6636 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6637 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6638 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6639 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6640 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6644 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6646 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6647 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6648 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6650 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6651 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6652 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6653 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6654 a given package, or -i or -a.
6655 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6656 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6657 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6658 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6659 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6660 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6661 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6662 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6663 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6665 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6666 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6667 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6671 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6673 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6674 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6675 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6680 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6682 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6683 does not have a section.
6685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6687 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6689 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6690 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6691 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6692 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6696 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6698 * Fixed typo #16215.
6700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6702 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6704 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6705 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6706 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6707 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6708 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6709 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6714 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6716 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6717 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6718 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6719 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6724 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6726 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6730 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6732 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6736 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6738 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6739 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6740 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6741 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6742 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6743 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6744 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6748 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6750 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6754 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6756 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6757 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6761 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6763 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6764 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6765 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6766 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6770 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6772 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6773 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6777 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6779 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6783 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6785 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6786 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6790 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6792 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6793 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6797 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6799 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6803 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6805 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6806 postinst, postrm, etc.
6808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6810 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6812 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6816 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6818 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6819 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6820 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6821 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6822 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6823 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6827 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6829 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6830 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6831 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6835 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6837 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6838 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6842 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6844 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6845 installing package files into.
6846 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6851 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6853 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6855 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6859 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6861 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6865 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6867 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6868 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6872 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6874 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6875 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6876 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6877 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6878 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6882 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6884 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6885 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6886 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6887 multiple binary packages.
6888 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6889 should rebuild them with this version.
6890 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6894 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6896 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6897 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6901 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6903 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6904 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6908 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6910 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6911 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6912 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6913 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6914 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6915 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6916 debian/README.debian.
6917 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6918 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6919 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6920 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6921 in a few situations.)
6923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6925 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6927 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6931 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6933 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6937 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6939 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6940 * Fixed several man pages.
6942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6944 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6946 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6947 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6948 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6952 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6954 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6955 is ready for general use.
6956 * Added man pages for all commands.
6957 * Multiple binary package support.
6958 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6959 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6960 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6962 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6963 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6964 auto-installed as parameters.
6965 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6967 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6970 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6971 the package build directory it is to act on.
6972 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6973 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6974 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6978 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6980 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6981 ready to replace debstd.
6983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400