1 debhelper (8.9.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
4 for the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
5 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
6 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:18:01 -0400
10 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
12 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
17 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
20 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
22 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
28 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
30 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
31 Use override targets instead.
32 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
33 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
34 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
35 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
36 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
37 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
38 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
39 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
40 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
41 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
46 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
49 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
53 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
55 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
59 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
62 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
63 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
64 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
65 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
66 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
67 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
71 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
74 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
75 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
76 the targets. Closes: #629139
78 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
79 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
80 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
81 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
82 are already set to other values will not be changed.
84 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
85 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
86 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
87 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
88 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
93 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
99 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
102 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
103 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
107 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
109 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
110 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
111 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
112 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
113 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
114 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
115 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
116 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
121 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
124 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
125 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
126 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
128 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
129 changes may be added to that mode.
130 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
131 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
132 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
133 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
134 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
135 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
136 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
137 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
138 * Removed old example rules files.
139 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
143 * update french translation.
144 * Fix french misspelling.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
148 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
150 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
151 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
155 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
158 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
159 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
160 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
161 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
162 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
163 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
164 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
168 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
171 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
172 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
173 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
174 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
175 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
176 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
178 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
179 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
180 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
181 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
182 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
183 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
184 (Thanks, David Prévot)
185 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
186 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
187 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
188 target fails. Closes: #601037
189 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
191 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
192 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
193 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
194 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
195 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
197 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
198 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
200 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
201 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
202 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
204 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
206 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
209 * update french translation.
210 * Fix french misspelling.
211 * French translation update after massive man page typography
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
215 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
218 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
221 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
225 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
227 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
231 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
233 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
234 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
235 introduced by the fix to #527990.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
239 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
242 changes are planned for that mode.
243 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
244 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
245 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
246 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
247 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
248 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
249 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
250 (genesis) still uses them.
251 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
252 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
253 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
254 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
255 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
256 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
257 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
258 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
259 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
260 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
261 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
262 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
263 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
264 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
265 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
266 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
267 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
268 commands. (See #570039)
269 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
271 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
276 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
280 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
281 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
282 in control file or debhelper config files.
283 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
287 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
290 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
291 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
295 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
298 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
302 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
305 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
306 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
310 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Updated French translation.
313 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
314 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
315 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
316 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
318 * Typo. Closes: #571968
319 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
320 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
321 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
322 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
323 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
324 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
325 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
326 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
327 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
329 * dh: Improve documentation.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
333 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
335 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
336 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
337 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
341 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
344 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
348 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
351 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
355 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
358 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
359 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
360 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
361 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
362 options that they do not support.
363 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
364 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
365 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
366 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
367 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
368 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
373 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
377 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
378 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
379 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
380 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
381 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
382 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
383 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
384 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
385 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
389 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
392 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
393 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
394 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
395 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
399 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
401 * Typo. Closes: #558654
402 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
403 installed. Closes: #558782
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
407 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
410 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
411 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
412 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
413 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
414 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
418 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
420 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
421 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
422 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
423 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
427 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
430 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
431 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
435 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
437 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
441 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
443 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
444 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
445 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
446 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
447 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
448 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
449 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
450 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
451 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
452 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
453 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
454 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
455 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
456 time soon.) Closes: #554509
457 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
459 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
460 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
461 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
462 document id. Closes: #555677
463 * Typo. Closes: #555659
464 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
465 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
466 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
467 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
469 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
470 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
471 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
476 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
479 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
480 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
481 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
482 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
483 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
484 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
485 translation (#494300 part 2)
488 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
490 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
491 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
492 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
493 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
494 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
498 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
501 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
502 (It was only run once due to logging.)
503 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
504 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
505 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
506 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
507 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
508 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
509 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
510 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
511 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
512 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
516 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
520 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
523 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
524 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
528 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
531 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
532 flag with arch all/any packages.
533 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
534 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
535 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
536 situation. Closes: #540794
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
540 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
544 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
545 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
546 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
547 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
548 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
551 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
552 the default. Closes: #538201
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
557 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
561 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
562 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
563 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
564 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
565 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
567 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
568 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
569 * Above Closes: #491117
570 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
575 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
581 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
582 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
583 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
587 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
590 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
591 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
592 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
593 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
594 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
599 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
602 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
603 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
607 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
609 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
613 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
615 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
616 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
618 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
619 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
620 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
624 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
626 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
627 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
631 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
637 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
639 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
640 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
641 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
646 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
648 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
652 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
655 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
656 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
657 created by using `python' first during build and install.
659 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
664 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
666 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
670 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
672 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
673 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
677 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
679 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
683 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
685 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
689 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
691 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
692 contributed by Modestas Vainius
693 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
694 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
695 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
696 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
697 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
698 that support it. Closes: #480577
699 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
700 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
701 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
703 - Adds support for cmake.
704 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
705 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
707 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
709 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
710 that use them. The options are:
711 --sourcedir, --destdir
712 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
713 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
714 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
715 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
716 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
720 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
726 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
729 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
730 default. Closes: #537140
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
734 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
736 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
737 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
738 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
742 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
745 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
749 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
752 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
756 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
759 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
761 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
762 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
763 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
767 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
769 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
770 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
771 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
772 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
776 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
779 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
780 warning or deprecation message.
781 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
782 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
783 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
784 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
785 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
786 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
787 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
788 Closes: #534639, #357434
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
792 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
798 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
801 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
802 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
803 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
804 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
806 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
807 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
808 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
812 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
818 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
825 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
828 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
832 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
834 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
836 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
837 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
839 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
840 file support. Closes: #494914
841 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
845 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
848 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
849 parameters. Closes: #527256
850 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
851 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
852 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
856 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
858 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
860 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
861 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
862 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
866 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
869 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
870 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
871 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
875 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
878 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
879 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
881 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
882 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
883 by triggers). Closes: #521181
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
887 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
889 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
891 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
895 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
897 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
898 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
899 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
900 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
901 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
906 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
912 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
915 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
916 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
917 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
918 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
919 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
921 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
922 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
923 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
924 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
925 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
926 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
930 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
933 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
934 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
935 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
936 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
937 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
939 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
943 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
945 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
949 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
951 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
952 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
953 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
954 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
955 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
956 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
957 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
958 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
959 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
960 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
961 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
965 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
967 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
968 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
970 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
971 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
972 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
973 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
975 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
976 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
980 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
982 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
983 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
984 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
985 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
986 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
987 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
988 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
990 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
991 that uses them. Affected options are:
992 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
993 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
994 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
995 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
996 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
997 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
998 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
999 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1000 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1001 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1002 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1003 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1007 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1014 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1020 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1023 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1025 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1026 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1027 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1028 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1029 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1030 than the old method.
1031 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1033 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1034 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1035 rules (see bug #509756).
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1039 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1045 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1046 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1047 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1048 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1052 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1055 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1056 empty files. Closes: #490937
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1060 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1066 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1073 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1076 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1077 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1078 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1079 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1084 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1086 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1087 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1088 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1089 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1093 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1096 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1097 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1098 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1099 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1100 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1104 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1111 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1114 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1115 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1116 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1117 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1118 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1119 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1120 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1121 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1122 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1126 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1129 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1130 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1131 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1132 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1134 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1135 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1136 breaking backwards compatibility.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1140 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1143 message in perl 5.10.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1147 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1153 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1156 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1160 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1163 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1167 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1170 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1171 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1172 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1173 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1174 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1175 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1176 logging by dh_listpackages.
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1180 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1183 run and there are no packages of that type.
1184 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1185 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1186 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1187 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1189 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1190 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1194 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1197 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1198 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1202 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1205 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1206 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1208 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1209 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1210 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1211 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1212 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1213 planned but not yet implemented.)
1214 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1215 if the Makefile has such a target.
1216 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1217 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1218 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1219 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1220 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1221 but not yet implemented.)
1222 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1223 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1224 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1225 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1226 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1228 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1230 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1231 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1233 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1234 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1235 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1240 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1243 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1244 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1248 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1250 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1251 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1252 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1256 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1262 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1268 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1271 just those installed by the program.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1275 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1278 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1279 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1283 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1286 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1287 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1288 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1289 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1293 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1296 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1297 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1301 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1304 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1305 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1309 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1312 with policy. Closes: #461392
1313 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1314 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1315 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1316 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1317 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1321 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1324 Closes: #460340, #460351
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1328 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1331 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1332 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1333 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1334 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1338 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1341 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1342 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1343 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1344 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1345 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1346 package build directory won't work.
1347 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1348 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1349 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1350 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1351 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1352 mode. Closes: #459426
1353 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1358 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1361 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1365 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1369 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1370 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1371 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1372 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1373 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1374 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1378 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1381 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1382 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1383 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1384 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1388 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1391 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1392 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1393 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1394 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1395 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1399 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1402 debian/package.triggers files.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1406 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1409 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1413 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1416 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1417 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1418 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1419 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1424 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1427 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1431 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1434 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1435 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1437 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1442 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1446 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1447 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1448 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1452 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1459 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1466 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1469 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1471 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1472 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1473 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1475 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1476 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1477 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1481 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1484 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1485 * Update urls to web page.
1486 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1487 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1488 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1489 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1493 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1496 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1497 - typo in alternatives call
1498 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1500 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1501 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1505 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1508 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1513 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1519 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1525 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1528 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1530 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1531 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1532 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1533 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1534 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1535 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1536 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1537 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1538 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1539 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1540 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1544 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1547 package install. Closes: #415717
1548 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1549 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1550 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1551 script and then remove the python files.
1552 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1553 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1554 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1555 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1556 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1557 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1558 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1559 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1560 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1561 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1562 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1563 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1564 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1568 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Correct typo in french translation
1574 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1575 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1577 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1579 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1580 Closes: #406921, #381940
1581 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1583 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1584 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1585 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1586 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1587 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1588 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1589 specified). Closes: #381851
1590 * Misc minor changes.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1594 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1601 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1602 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1606 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1612 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1613 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1616 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1617 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1619 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1620 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1621 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1622 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1626 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1629 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1632 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1636 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1642 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1648 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1649 a difficult situation.
1650 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1651 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1652 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1653 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1654 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1655 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1656 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1657 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1658 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1659 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1663 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Non-maintainer upload.
1666 * Update of dh_python
1667 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1668 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1670 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1671 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1672 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1673 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1674 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1676 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1678 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Non-maintainer upload.
1681 * Update of dh_python
1682 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1683 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1684 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1685 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1686 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1687 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1688 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1689 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1690 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1691 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1693 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1694 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1695 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1696 the not too-distant future).
1697 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1698 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1699 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1700 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1701 thus made the build fail.
1703 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1705 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Non-maintainer upload.
1708 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1710 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1712 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1715 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1716 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1717 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1718 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1719 package. Closes: #301424
1720 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1721 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1722 fonts). Closes: #372686
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1726 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1732 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1733 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1734 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1735 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1736 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1737 above, but already depends on that.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1741 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1744 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1745 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1746 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1747 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1748 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1752 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1758 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1764 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1765 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1769 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1772 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1776 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1780 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1781 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1782 new version (0.24.1).
1783 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1784 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1787 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1788 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1789 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1790 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1791 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1792 new directory on their own.
1793 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1794 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1798 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1801 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1802 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1803 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1804 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1808 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1811 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1812 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1813 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1814 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1815 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1819 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1825 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1829 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1830 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1834 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1835 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1839 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1841 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1842 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1844 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1845 ignored. Closes: #337664
1847 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1852 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1858 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1863 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1864 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1865 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1866 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1867 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1868 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1869 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1873 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1876 version. Closes: #350607
1877 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1878 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1879 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1880 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1884 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1887 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1888 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1889 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1893 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1900 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1906 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1909 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1913 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1916 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1917 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1918 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1919 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1920 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1921 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1925 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1928 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1929 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1934 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1937 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1941 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1944 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1948 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1951 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1952 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1953 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1954 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1955 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1956 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1960 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1964 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1965 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1966 link. Closes: #346405
1967 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1969 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1970 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1971 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1972 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1973 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1974 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1975 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1979 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1986 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1992 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1995 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1999 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2002 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2007 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2011 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2012 installed. Closes: #342033
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2016 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2019 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2020 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2021 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2026 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2032 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2038 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2042 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2043 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2044 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2048 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2051 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2056 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2063 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2069 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2072 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2073 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2074 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2075 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2076 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2077 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2078 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2080 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2084 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2087 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2088 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2092 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2095 in standard man dirs.
2096 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2100 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2106 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2109 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2114 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2121 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2128 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2131 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2132 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2136 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2139 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2140 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2141 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2143 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2145 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2151 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2157 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2160 mode. Closes: #324161
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2164 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2167 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2168 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2169 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2170 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2178 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2179 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2180 is necesary for sanity.
2181 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2182 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2187 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2189 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2190 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2194 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2197 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2201 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2207 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2210 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2211 released, so use at your own risk.
2212 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2213 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2215 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2216 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2217 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2218 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2219 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2220 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2221 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2222 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2223 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2224 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2225 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2226 including twice per config file line now..
2227 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2228 and simplfy the rules file.
2229 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2230 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2231 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2233 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2234 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2238 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2241 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2245 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2248 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2252 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2255 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2259 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2262 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2263 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2264 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2265 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2266 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2267 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2271 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2274 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2275 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2276 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2281 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2284 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2285 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2290 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2293 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2294 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2295 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2300 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2303 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2304 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2305 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2309 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2315 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2322 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2325 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2326 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2327 unknown. Closes: #282924
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2331 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2338 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * Spanish man page updates.
2341 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2346 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2352 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2355 * dh_desktop: reindent
2356 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2357 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2361 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2367 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2369 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2373 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2375 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2379 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2382 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2383 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2387 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2393 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2399 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2409 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2413 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2416 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2417 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2418 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2419 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2420 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2421 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2423 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2424 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2425 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2426 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2427 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2428 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2429 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2430 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2431 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2432 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2433 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2434 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2435 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2436 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2437 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2438 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2442 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2449 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2452 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2456 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2459 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2463 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2466 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2470 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2473 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2477 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2483 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2489 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2495 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2498 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2499 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2500 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2504 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2507 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2511 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2514 but occasionally right and necessary.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2518 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2521 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2522 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2523 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2524 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2525 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2529 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2532 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2534 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2535 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2536 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2537 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2538 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2539 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2540 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2541 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2542 postinst scripts for udebs.
2543 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2547 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2550 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2552 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2553 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2557 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2563 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2570 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2577 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2580 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2584 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2587 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2591 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2594 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2597 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2598 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2602 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2608 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2611 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2615 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2618 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2619 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2620 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2622 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2624 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2625 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2626 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2630 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2633 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2638 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2641 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2642 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2643 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2648 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2654 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2660 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2663 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2664 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2665 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2666 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2667 associated -dbg packages.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2671 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2674 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2678 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2681 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2685 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2688 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2692 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2695 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2700 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2703 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2707 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2710 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2715 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2718 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2722 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2726 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2727 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2728 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2729 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2730 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2731 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2732 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2733 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2734 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2735 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2739 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2742 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2747 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2750 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2751 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2755 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2758 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2759 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2764 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2767 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2771 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2774 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2778 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2781 out section number. Closes: #204731
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2785 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2792 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2798 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2804 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2807 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2808 removal. Closes: #204286
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2812 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2815 renaming. Closes: #203548
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2819 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2822 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2823 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2827 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2833 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2839 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2845 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2848 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2849 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2850 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2854 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2857 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2858 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2862 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2868 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2875 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2878 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2883 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2886 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2890 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2893 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2895 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2896 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2900 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2903 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2908 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2911 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2915 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2921 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2923 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2927 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2930 it break hard links (see #188663).
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2934 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2937 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2941 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2947 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2951 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2952 debconf-mergetemplates
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2956 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2959 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2963 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2966 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2970 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2973 * Update debhelper(1).
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2977 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2980 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2981 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2982 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2983 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2984 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2988 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2991 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2992 the shell. Closes: #178524
2993 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2997 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3000 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3004 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3007 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3011 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3014 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3015 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3016 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3017 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3022 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3025 files from installation.
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3029 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3032 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3033 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3037 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3040 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3044 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3047 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3051 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3057 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3063 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3067 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3068 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3070 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3074 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3077 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3078 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3079 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3080 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3084 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3087 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3091 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3094 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3095 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3099 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3103 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3108 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3114 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3118 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3119 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3120 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3125 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3128 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3129 practice. Closes: #163303
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3133 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3139 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3146 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3149 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3151 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3152 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3153 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3154 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3155 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3159 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3162 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3167 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3173 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3180 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3183 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3188 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3194 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3200 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3206 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3213 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3216 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3217 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3218 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3219 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3224 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3230 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3237 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3240 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3241 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3245 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3248 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3249 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3250 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3251 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3252 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3256 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3259 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3261 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3266 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3269 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3273 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3276 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3277 right thing. Closes: #150644
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3281 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * Stupid, evil typo.
3284 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3288 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3295 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3298 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3299 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3304 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3310 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3313 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3317 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3320 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3321 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3326 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3329 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3333 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3339 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3342 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3343 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3347 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3353 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * Removing perl warning message.
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3359 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3362 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3363 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3364 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3365 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3366 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3367 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3368 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3369 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3373 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3379 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3386 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3389 debconf-mergetemplate.
3390 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3391 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3395 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3398 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3399 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3400 dh_install, which ...
3401 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3402 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3403 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3404 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3405 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3406 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3407 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3408 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3409 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3410 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3411 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3412 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3413 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3414 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3415 other minor changes.
3416 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3417 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3418 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3419 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3420 course there's -X ..)
3421 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3422 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3423 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3425 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3426 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3427 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3428 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3429 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3434 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3440 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3443 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3447 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3453 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3459 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3465 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3471 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3474 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3475 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3476 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3477 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3479 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3480 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3484 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3490 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3493 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3497 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3500 upset. Closes: #131322
3502 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3504 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3507 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3508 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3509 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3510 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3511 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3512 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3513 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3514 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3515 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3516 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3517 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3518 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3519 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3520 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3521 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3523 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3527 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3530 - Better indenting of generated code.
3531 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3535 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3539 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3540 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3541 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3542 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3543 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3544 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3545 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3549 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3552 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3556 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3559 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3560 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3561 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3562 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3563 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3564 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3565 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3566 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3567 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3568 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3569 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3570 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3571 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3572 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3573 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3578 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3584 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3587 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3588 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3592 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3595 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3596 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3600 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3606 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3609 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3610 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3611 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3612 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3613 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3618 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3624 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3627 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3631 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3634 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3639 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3645 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3648 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3652 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3658 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3662 Also some indentation fixes.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3666 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3669 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3670 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3671 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3672 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3673 Closes: #106514, #85520
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3677 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3683 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3689 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3695 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3701 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3707 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3710 change it in debhelper v4..
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3714 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3720 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3723 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3727 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3730 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3734 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3740 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3743 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3744 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3745 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3746 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3747 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3748 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3749 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3750 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3751 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3752 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3753 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3754 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3758 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3761 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3765 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3772 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3775 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3776 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3777 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3778 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3779 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3780 program those options go to. So, for example,
3781 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3782 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3783 something complex. Closes: #89311
3784 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3788 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3791 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3792 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3793 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3797 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3800 through loop. Closes: #98598
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3804 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * Missing semi-colon.
3807 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3808 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3812 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3815 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3816 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3817 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3821 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3824 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3825 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3829 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3832 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3836 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3839 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3840 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3844 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3847 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3848 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3849 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3853 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3856 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3857 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3858 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3862 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3865 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3869 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3875 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3881 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3887 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3893 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3896 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3900 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3903 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3904 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3905 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3906 followed. Closes: #85483
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3910 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3912 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3913 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3914 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3918 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3921 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3922 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3923 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3924 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3925 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3926 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3927 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3928 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3929 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3930 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3931 Closes: #88464, #77743
3932 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3933 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3934 us to deal with that gracefully.
3935 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3937 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3938 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3939 a while, Closes: #51225
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3943 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3949 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3952 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3956 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3960 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3965 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3968 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3969 don't make packlist files.
3970 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3971 debhelper coding standards.
3972 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3973 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3977 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3980 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3984 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3987 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3988 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3989 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3990 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3991 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3992 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3993 but is mildly deprecated.
3994 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3995 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3996 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3997 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3998 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3999 switching to statoverrides..
4000 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4001 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4002 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4003 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4004 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4005 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4007 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4008 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4009 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4010 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4011 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4012 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4013 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4014 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4015 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4017 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4018 variable names, pod man pages).
4019 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4020 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4021 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4022 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4023 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4024 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4025 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4029 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4035 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4042 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4045 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4049 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4051 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4052 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4053 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4057 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4059 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4060 they were previously ignored.
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4064 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4066 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4067 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4071 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4073 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4074 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4075 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4079 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4081 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4085 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4087 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4088 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4092 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4094 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4095 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4096 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4097 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4098 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4099 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4100 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4101 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4102 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4103 it is an obsolete program.
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4107 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4109 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4113 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4117 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4119 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4123 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4125 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4127 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4129 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4133 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4139 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * typo: Closes, #78567
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4145 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4151 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4157 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4160 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4161 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4162 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4163 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4164 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4168 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4171 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4176 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4179 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4180 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4181 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4182 backwards-compatibility.
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4186 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4189 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4190 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4191 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4192 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4193 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4194 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4196 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4197 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4198 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4200 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4202 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4203 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4204 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4205 should now be raised to severity important..
4206 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4207 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4211 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4214 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4219 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4225 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4231 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4237 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4244 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4247 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4248 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4249 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4250 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4254 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4260 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4263 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4264 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4265 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4266 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4267 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4268 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4273 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4276 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4280 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4286 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4289 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4294 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4297 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4298 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4299 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4300 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4304 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4308 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4311 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4314 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4315 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4318 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4320 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4321 the TODO entry about it.
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4325 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4332 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4335 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4336 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4340 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4343 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4344 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4345 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4346 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4350 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4356 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4363 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4366 (this appears to be logal).
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4370 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4373 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4374 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4375 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4376 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4380 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4386 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4389 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4390 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4391 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4392 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4396 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4402 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4405 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4409 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4416 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4419 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4420 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4421 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4426 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4433 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4439 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4442 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4443 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4444 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4445 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4446 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4447 notice until v2 is complete.
4448 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4449 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4450 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4451 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4452 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4453 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4455 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4456 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4457 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4458 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4462 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4468 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4475 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4478 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4482 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4489 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4492 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4493 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4494 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4495 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4500 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4503 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4504 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4505 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4510 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4513 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4514 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4518 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4521 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4525 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4528 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4532 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4539 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4542 depend on the build and install targets.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4546 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4549 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4553 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4560 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4566 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4572 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4575 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4576 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4577 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4578 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4579 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4580 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4582 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4583 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4584 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4585 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4586 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4587 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4588 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4592 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4598 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4604 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4607 right place. Closes: #55065
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4611 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4618 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4621 * Copyright date updates.
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4625 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4628 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4633 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4639 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4646 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4652 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4658 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4664 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4667 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4668 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4669 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4670 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4671 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4672 bits until all files have been registered.
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4676 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * dh_installmanpages:
4679 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4680 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4681 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4682 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4683 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4684 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4685 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4686 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4687 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4688 otherwise change the result at all.
4690 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4691 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4692 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4693 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4694 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4699 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4705 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4708 act on files that don't exist.
4709 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4710 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4711 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4713 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4714 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4715 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4716 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4720 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4726 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4732 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4735 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4739 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4742 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4744 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4745 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4746 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4750 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4753 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4754 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4755 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4756 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4757 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4758 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4759 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4761 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4763 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4767 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4774 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4780 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4786 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4789 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4793 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4799 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4805 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4808 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4809 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4810 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4811 I made some changes, though:
4812 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4813 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4814 that is a clear violation of policy.
4815 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4816 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4817 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4818 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4819 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4820 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4821 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4822 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4823 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4825 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4829 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4835 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4838 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4842 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4845 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4846 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4851 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4857 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4864 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4867 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4868 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4869 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4870 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4871 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4872 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4873 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4877 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4883 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4887 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4888 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4892 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4898 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4901 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4905 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4908 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4909 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4913 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4915 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4920 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4924 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4928 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4931 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4932 for the dependancies to be generated.
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4936 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4939 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4943 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4946 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4947 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4948 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4953 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4956 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4957 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4961 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4967 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4973 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4975 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4976 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4980 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4986 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4988 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4989 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4990 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4991 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4992 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4993 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4994 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4995 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4996 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4997 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4998 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4999 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5000 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5004 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5007 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5008 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5010 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5011 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5012 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5013 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5014 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5015 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5017 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5018 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5022 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5025 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5029 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5036 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5039 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5044 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5047 for building debhelper.
5048 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5052 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5054 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5059 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5062 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5066 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5069 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5070 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5071 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5072 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5073 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5074 it's always available.
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5078 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5081 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5082 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5083 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5087 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5090 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5091 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5095 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5101 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5104 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5108 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5114 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5117 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5118 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5119 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5123 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5126 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5131 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5134 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5135 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5137 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5138 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5142 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5148 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5154 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5157 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5161 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5164 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5165 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5167 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5171 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5174 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5175 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5176 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5180 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5183 things if CDPATH is set.
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5187 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5193 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5196 seems to make sense for the transition.
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5200 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5203 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5208 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5211 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5212 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5216 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5219 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5223 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5226 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5227 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5228 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5229 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5233 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5239 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5242 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5243 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5244 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5245 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5246 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5247 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5248 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5249 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5250 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5251 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5256 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5259 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5260 * README: mention doc/v2
5261 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5262 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5266 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5268 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5269 be using this script RSN.
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5273 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5276 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5277 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5278 more than 1 init script.
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5282 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5285 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5289 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * Changed perl version detection.
5292 * Changed call to find.
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5296 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5299 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5301 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5306 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * Really include dh_installpam.
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5312 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5315 * Wrote man page for same.
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5319 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5322 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5323 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5328 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5335 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5338 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5339 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5340 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5341 x bit was being set!
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5345 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5348 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5349 well. (Closes: 38900)
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5353 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5356 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5357 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5361 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5363 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5367 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5374 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5380 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5383 help from Julian Gilbey.
5384 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5385 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5386 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5387 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5388 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5389 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5390 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5395 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5401 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5408 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5414 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5420 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5423 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5427 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5430 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5434 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5437 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5441 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5447 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5450 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5454 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5460 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5462 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5466 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5469 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5470 may be deleted. (#35845)
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5474 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * Various man page enhancements.
5477 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5482 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5485 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5486 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5490 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5493 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5494 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5495 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5497 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5498 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5503 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5509 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * Another very minor typo fix.
5513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5515 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5517 * Very minor typo fix.
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5521 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5523 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5524 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5525 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5529 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5535 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5537 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5538 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5539 variables properly (#34850).
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5543 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5545 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5549 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5552 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5553 (automatically generated by build process).
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5557 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5559 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5563 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5566 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5567 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5569 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5573 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5576 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5580 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * README: minor typo fix.
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5586 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5589 leave it at that. :-)
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5593 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5599 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5605 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5608 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5609 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5610 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5614 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5617 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5621 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5624 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5628 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5630 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5631 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5632 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5633 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5634 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5638 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5641 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5642 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5643 Craig Small for spotting this.
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5647 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5650 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5651 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5655 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5657 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5661 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5664 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5668 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5670 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5671 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5672 working on the last version of debhelper.
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5676 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5679 being made. (#23255)
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5683 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5689 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5692 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5696 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5699 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5700 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5701 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5702 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5706 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5709 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5710 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5711 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5712 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5714 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5715 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5717 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5722 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5728 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5734 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5737 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5738 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5739 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5740 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5741 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5742 suidregister actually supports it.
5743 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5744 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5748 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5755 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5758 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5759 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5760 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5761 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5762 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5763 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5764 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5768 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5770 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5771 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5775 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5778 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5779 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5780 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5781 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5785 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5788 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5790 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5791 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5792 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5793 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5794 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5795 effect, either. (#30118)
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5799 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5805 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5808 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5809 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5813 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5815 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5819 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5821 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5822 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5823 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5824 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5825 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5829 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5832 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5833 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5837 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5843 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5846 packages, painlessly.
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5850 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5856 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5862 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5868 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5870 * The perl conversion is complete.
5872 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5874 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5875 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5876 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5881 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5884 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5885 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5886 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5890 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5893 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5895 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5897 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5898 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5902 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5905 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5906 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5910 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5912 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5916 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5918 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5919 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5920 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5921 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5922 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5923 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5927 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5930 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5931 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5932 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5933 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5937 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5939 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5940 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5944 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5946 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5947 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5948 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5949 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5950 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5951 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5952 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5953 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5954 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5958 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5960 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5964 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5967 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5968 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5969 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5974 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5976 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5977 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5981 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5983 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5984 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5988 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5990 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5991 sections of shared libraries.
5992 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5993 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5994 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5995 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5996 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5997 things you don't want them to.
5998 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5999 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6003 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6005 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6006 shared libraries. (#26414)
6008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6010 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6012 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6013 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6014 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6015 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6019 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6021 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6023 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6025 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6026 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6027 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6028 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6029 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6033 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6036 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6040 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6042 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6043 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6044 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6049 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6052 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6056 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6058 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6059 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6060 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6061 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6062 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6063 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6065 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6066 remove debian/files properly.
6067 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6068 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6069 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6070 * Removed bogus menu file.
6072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6074 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6076 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6077 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6081 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6084 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6085 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6086 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6087 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6088 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6089 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6093 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6096 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6097 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6098 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6099 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6103 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6105 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6110 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6113 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6114 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6116 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6117 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6118 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6119 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6120 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6121 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6125 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6127 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6128 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6129 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6130 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6131 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6132 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6133 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6134 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6135 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6136 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6137 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6138 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6139 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6140 passed any switches.
6141 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6145 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6147 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6148 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6149 at all for a long while.
6150 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6151 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6152 large chunks in the process.
6153 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6154 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6155 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6160 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6162 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6163 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6165 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6170 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6172 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6173 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6174 that don't always have the same files in them.
6175 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6176 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6177 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6181 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6185 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6186 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6187 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6188 updating 27 man pages.
6189 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6190 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6191 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6192 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6193 programs act on. (#25247)
6195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6197 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6201 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6202 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6203 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6204 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6205 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6206 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6211 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6218 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6220 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6225 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6228 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6232 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6238 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6240 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6241 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6242 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6243 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6244 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6245 package by accident.
6246 * Is version 1.0 next?
6248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6250 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6252 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6253 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6254 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6258 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6260 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6261 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6262 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6263 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6264 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6265 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6267 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6272 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6274 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6275 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6276 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6280 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6282 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6283 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6287 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6289 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6290 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6291 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6296 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6298 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6302 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6304 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6305 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6306 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6311 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6313 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6317 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6319 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6320 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6321 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6322 past week. Thanks, guys!
6324 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6325 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6326 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6327 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6328 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6329 would do in the same situation.
6330 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6331 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6333 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6335 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6336 permissions changed.
6337 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6338 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6339 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6340 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6341 files are treated identically.
6342 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6343 * Minor man page fixes.
6344 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6345 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6346 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6350 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6352 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6353 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6354 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6355 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6356 use -X multiple times, too.
6357 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6358 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6362 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6364 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6365 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6366 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6370 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6372 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6373 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6377 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6379 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6380 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6381 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6382 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6383 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6384 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6385 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6386 shape if you're starting a new package.
6388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6390 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6392 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6393 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6397 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6399 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6400 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6401 because of missing symlinks.
6403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6405 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6407 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6411 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6413 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6414 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6415 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6416 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6417 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6418 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6420 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6421 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6425 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6427 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6428 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6429 to be changed after the fact :-)
6430 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6434 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6436 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6437 no version string after the -V.
6439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6441 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6443 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6444 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6449 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6451 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6452 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6456 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6458 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6459 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6460 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6461 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6462 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6463 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6464 I always welcome corrections!
6466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6468 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6470 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6474 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6476 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6477 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6478 * Documented this new switch.
6480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6482 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6484 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6485 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6486 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6487 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6488 no packages use the old behavior.
6490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6492 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6494 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6495 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6496 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6500 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6502 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6503 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6507 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6509 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6513 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6515 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6516 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6520 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6522 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6523 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6524 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6525 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6529 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6531 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6535 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6537 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6538 into the source package by accident.
6540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6542 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6544 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6545 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6546 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6547 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6548 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6549 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6550 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6555 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6557 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6559 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6560 inspired to implement some of it.
6561 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6565 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6567 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6568 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6572 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6574 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6575 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6576 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6580 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6582 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6583 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6584 have done.) (#17598)
6586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6588 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6590 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6594 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6596 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6600 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6602 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6603 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6607 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6609 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6610 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6611 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6615 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6617 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6618 argument processor in perl.
6619 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6620 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6621 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6622 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6626 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6628 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6629 type directories. (#16933)
6630 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6631 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6632 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6633 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6634 are supported. (#16935)
6635 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6640 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6642 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6643 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6647 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6649 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6651 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6652 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6653 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6654 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6655 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6656 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6660 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6662 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6663 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6664 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6666 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6667 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6668 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6669 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6670 a given package, or -i or -a.
6671 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6672 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6673 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6674 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6675 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6676 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6677 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6678 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6679 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6681 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6682 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6683 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6687 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6689 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6690 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6691 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6696 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6698 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6699 does not have a section.
6701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6703 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6705 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6706 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6707 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6708 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6712 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6714 * Fixed typo #16215.
6716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6718 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6720 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6721 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6722 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6723 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6724 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6725 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6730 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6732 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6733 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6734 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6735 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6740 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6742 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6746 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6748 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6752 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6754 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6755 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6756 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6757 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6758 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6759 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6760 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6764 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6766 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6770 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6772 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6773 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6777 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6779 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6780 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6781 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6782 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6786 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6788 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6789 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6793 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6795 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6799 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6801 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6802 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6806 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6808 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6809 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6813 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6815 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6819 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6821 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6822 postinst, postrm, etc.
6824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6826 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6828 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6832 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6834 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6835 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6836 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6837 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6838 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6839 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6843 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6845 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6846 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6847 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6851 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6853 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6854 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6858 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6860 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6861 installing package files into.
6862 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6867 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6869 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6871 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6875 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6877 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6881 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6883 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6884 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6888 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6890 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6891 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6892 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6893 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6894 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6898 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6900 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6901 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6902 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6903 multiple binary packages.
6904 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6905 should rebuild them with this version.
6906 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6910 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6912 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6913 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6917 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6919 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6920 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6924 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6926 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6927 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6928 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6929 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6930 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6931 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6932 debian/README.debian.
6933 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6934 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6935 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6936 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6937 in a few situations.)
6939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6941 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6943 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6947 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6949 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6953 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6955 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6956 * Fixed several man pages.
6958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6960 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6962 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6963 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6964 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6968 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6970 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6971 is ready for general use.
6972 * Added man pages for all commands.
6973 * Multiple binary package support.
6974 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6975 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6976 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6978 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6979 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6980 auto-installed as parameters.
6981 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6983 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6986 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6987 the package build directory it is to act on.
6988 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6989 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6990 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6994 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6996 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6997 ready to replace debstd.
6999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400