1 debhelper (9.20120609) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_shlibdeps: Warn if -V flag is passed, to avoid it accidentially being
4 used here rather than in dh_makeshlibs. Closes: #680339
5 * dh_lintian: Source overrides doc improvement. Closes: #683941
6 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #685538
7 * Updated French man page translation. Closes: #685560
8 * dh_installmime: No longer makes maintainer scripts run update-mime and
9 update-mime-database, that is now handled by triggers. Closes: #684689
10 Thanks, Charles Plessy
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:51:07 -0600
14 debhelper (9.20120608) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh: When there's an -indep override target without -arch, or vice versa,
17 avoid acting on packages covered by the override target when running
18 the command for packages not covered by it. Closes: #676462
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:15:48 -0400
22 debhelper (9.20120528) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_installcatalogs: Turn /etc/sgml/$package.cat into conffiles
25 and introduce dependency on trigger-based sgml-base. Closes: #477751
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:26 -0400
30 debhelper (9.20120523) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #673629 Thanks, Omar Campagne
33 * Set Multi-Arch: foreign. Closes: #674193
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:48 -0400
37 debhelper (9.20120518) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
40 * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:05:03 -0400
44 debhelper (9.20120513) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Improve -v logging. Closes: #672448
47 * dh_builddeb: Build udebs with xz compression, level 1, extreme strategy.
48 This has been chosen to not need any more memory or cpu when uncompressing,
49 while yeilding the best compressions for udebs. Thanks, Philipp Kern.
50 * Depend on a new enough dpkg for above features. Backporters will need
51 to revert these changes.
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:09:42 -0400
55 debhelper (9.20120509) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh_installman: Recognize sections from mdoc .Dt entries. Closes: #670210
59 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #671598
60 * dh_install: Reorder documentation for clarity. Closes: #672109
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 May 2012 12:59:15 -0400
64 debhelper (9.20120419) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Fix compat level checking for cmake. Closes: #669181
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:35 -0400
70 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
72 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
76 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
78 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
79 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
80 package is broken by this change.
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
84 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
88 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
89 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
93 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
94 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
95 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
100 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
103 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
104 Added to interface documentation.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
109 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
115 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
118 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
119 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
120 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
122 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
123 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
124 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
125 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
126 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
131 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
134 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
135 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
136 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
137 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
138 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
139 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
143 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Typo. Closes: #653006
146 * Typo. Closes: #653339
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
150 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
153 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
154 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
155 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
156 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
157 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
161 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
164 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
165 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
166 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
167 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
168 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
169 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
170 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
174 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
180 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
183 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
184 may need to disable this.
185 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
186 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
187 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
188 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
192 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
195 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
196 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
200 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
202 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
203 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
204 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
206 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
207 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
208 to dh. Closes: #643069
209 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
210 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
214 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
217 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
218 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
219 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
220 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
222 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
223 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
224 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
226 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
227 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
228 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
229 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
230 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
231 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
232 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
233 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
234 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
235 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
236 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
237 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
238 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
239 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
240 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
244 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
251 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
254 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
256 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
262 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
265 Use override targets instead.
266 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
267 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
268 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
269 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
270 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
271 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
272 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
273 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
274 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
275 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
280 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
283 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
287 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
289 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
293 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
296 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
297 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
298 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
299 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
300 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
301 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
305 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
308 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
309 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
310 the targets. Closes: #629139
311 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
312 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
313 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
314 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
315 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
316 are already set to other values will not be changed.
318 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
319 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
320 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
321 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
322 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
327 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
333 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
336 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
337 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
341 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
344 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
345 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
346 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
347 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
348 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
349 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
350 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
355 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
359 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
360 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
362 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
363 changes may be added to that mode.
364 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
365 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
366 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
367 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
368 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
369 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
370 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
371 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
372 * Removed old example rules files.
373 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
377 * update french translation.
378 * Fix french misspelling.
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
382 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
385 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
389 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
392 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
393 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
394 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
395 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
396 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
397 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
398 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
402 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
405 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
406 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
407 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
408 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
409 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
410 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
412 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
413 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
414 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
415 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
416 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
417 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
418 (Thanks, David Prévot)
419 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
420 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
421 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
422 target fails. Closes: #601037
423 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
425 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
426 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
427 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
428 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
429 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
431 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
432 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
434 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
435 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
436 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
438 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
440 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
443 * update french translation.
444 * Fix french misspelling.
445 * French translation update after massive man page typography
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
449 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
455 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
459 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
461 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
465 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
467 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
468 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
469 introduced by the fix to #527990.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
473 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
476 changes are planned for that mode.
477 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
478 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
479 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
480 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
481 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
482 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
483 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
484 (genesis) still uses them.
485 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
486 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
487 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
488 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
489 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
490 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
491 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
492 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
493 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
494 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
495 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
496 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
497 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
498 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
499 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
500 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
501 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
502 commands. (See #570039)
503 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
505 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
510 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
514 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
515 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
516 in control file or debhelper config files.
517 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
521 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
524 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
525 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
529 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
532 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
536 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
539 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
540 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
544 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Updated French translation.
547 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
548 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
549 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
550 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
552 * Typo. Closes: #571968
553 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
554 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
555 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
556 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
557 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
558 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
559 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
560 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
561 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
563 * dh: Improve documentation.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
567 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
569 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
570 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
571 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
575 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
578 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
582 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
585 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
589 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
592 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
593 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
594 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
595 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
596 options that they do not support.
597 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
598 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
599 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
600 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
601 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
602 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
607 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
611 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
612 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
613 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
614 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
615 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
616 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
617 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
618 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
619 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
623 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
626 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
627 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
628 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
629 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
633 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Typo. Closes: #558654
636 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
637 installed. Closes: #558782
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
641 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
644 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
645 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
646 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
647 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
648 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
652 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
654 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
655 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
656 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
657 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
661 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
664 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
665 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
669 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
671 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
675 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
677 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
678 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
679 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
680 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
681 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
682 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
683 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
684 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
685 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
686 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
687 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
688 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
689 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
690 time soon.) Closes: #554509
691 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
693 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
694 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
695 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
696 document id. Closes: #555677
697 * Typo. Closes: #555659
698 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
699 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
700 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
701 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
703 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
704 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
705 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
710 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
713 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
714 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
715 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
716 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
717 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
718 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
719 translation (#494300 part 2)
722 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
724 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
725 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
726 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
727 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
728 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
732 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
735 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
736 (It was only run once due to logging.)
737 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
738 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
739 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
740 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
741 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
742 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
743 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
744 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
745 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
746 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
750 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
754 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
757 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
758 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
762 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
765 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
766 flag with arch all/any packages.
767 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
768 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
769 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
770 situation. Closes: #540794
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
774 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
778 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
779 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
780 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
781 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
782 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
785 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
786 the default. Closes: #538201
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
791 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
795 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
796 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
797 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
798 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
799 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
801 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
802 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
803 * Above Closes: #491117
804 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
809 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
815 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
816 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
817 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
821 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
824 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
825 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
826 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
827 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
828 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
833 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
836 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
837 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
841 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
843 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
847 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
849 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
850 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
852 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
853 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
854 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
858 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
860 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
861 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
865 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
871 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
873 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
874 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
875 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
880 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
882 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
886 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
889 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
890 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
891 created by using `python' first during build and install.
893 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
898 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
900 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
904 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
906 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
907 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
911 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
913 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
917 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
919 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
923 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
925 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
926 contributed by Modestas Vainius
927 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
928 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
929 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
930 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
931 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
932 that support it. Closes: #480577
933 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
934 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
935 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
937 - Adds support for cmake.
938 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
939 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
941 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
943 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
944 that use them. The options are:
945 --sourcedir, --destdir
946 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
947 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
948 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
949 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
950 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
954 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
960 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
963 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
964 default. Closes: #537140
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
968 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
971 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
972 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
976 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
979 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
983 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
986 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
990 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
993 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
995 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
996 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
997 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
1001 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
1004 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
1005 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
1006 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
1010 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
1013 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
1014 warning or deprecation message.
1015 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
1016 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
1017 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
1018 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
1019 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
1020 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
1021 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
1022 Closes: #534639, #357434
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
1026 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
1032 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
1035 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
1036 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
1037 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
1038 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
1040 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
1041 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
1042 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
1046 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
1052 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
1059 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
1062 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
1066 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1070 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1071 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1073 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1074 file support. Closes: #494914
1075 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1079 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1082 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1083 parameters. Closes: #527256
1084 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1085 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1086 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1090 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1093 (Patch from #459548)
1094 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1095 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1096 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1100 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1103 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1104 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1105 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1109 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1112 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1113 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1115 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1116 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1117 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1121 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1125 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1129 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1132 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1133 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1134 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1135 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1140 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1146 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1149 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1150 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1151 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1152 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1153 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1155 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1156 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1157 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1158 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1159 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1160 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1164 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1167 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1168 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1169 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1170 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1171 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1173 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1177 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1179 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1183 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1185 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1186 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1187 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1188 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1189 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1190 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1191 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1192 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1193 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1194 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1195 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1199 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1201 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1202 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1204 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1205 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1206 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1207 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1209 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1210 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1214 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1216 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1217 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1218 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1219 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1220 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1221 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1222 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1224 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1225 that uses them. Affected options are:
1226 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1227 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1228 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1229 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1230 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1231 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1232 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1233 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1234 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1235 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1236 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1237 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1241 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1248 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1254 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1257 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1259 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1260 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1261 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1262 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1263 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1264 than the old method.
1265 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1267 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1268 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1269 rules (see bug #509756).
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1273 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1279 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1280 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1281 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1282 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1286 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1289 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1290 empty files. Closes: #490937
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1294 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1300 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1307 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1310 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1311 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1312 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1313 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1318 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1320 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1321 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1322 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1323 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1327 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1330 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1331 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1332 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1333 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1334 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1338 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1345 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1348 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1349 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1350 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1351 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1352 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1353 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1354 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1355 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1356 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1360 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1363 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1364 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1365 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1366 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1368 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1369 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1370 breaking backwards compatibility.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1374 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1377 message in perl 5.10.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1381 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1387 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1390 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1394 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1397 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1401 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1404 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1405 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1406 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1407 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1408 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1409 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1410 logging by dh_listpackages.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1414 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1417 run and there are no packages of that type.
1418 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1419 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1420 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1421 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1423 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1424 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1428 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1431 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1432 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1436 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1439 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1440 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1442 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1443 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1444 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1445 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1446 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1447 planned but not yet implemented.)
1448 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1449 if the Makefile has such a target.
1450 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1451 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1452 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1453 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1454 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1455 but not yet implemented.)
1456 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1457 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1458 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1459 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1460 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1462 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1464 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1465 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1467 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1468 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1469 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1474 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1477 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1478 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1482 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1484 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1485 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1486 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1490 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1496 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1502 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1505 just those installed by the program.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1509 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1512 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1513 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1517 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1520 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1521 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1522 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1523 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1527 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1530 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1531 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1535 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1538 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1539 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1543 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1546 with policy. Closes: #461392
1547 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1548 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1549 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1550 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1551 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1555 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1558 Closes: #460340, #460351
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1562 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1565 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1566 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1567 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1568 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1572 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1575 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1576 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1577 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1578 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1579 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1580 package build directory won't work.
1581 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1582 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1583 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1584 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1585 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1586 mode. Closes: #459426
1587 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1592 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1595 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1599 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1603 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1604 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1605 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1606 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1607 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1608 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1612 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1615 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1616 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1617 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1618 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1622 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1625 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1626 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1627 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1628 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1629 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1633 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1636 debian/package.triggers files.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1640 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1643 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1647 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1650 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1651 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1652 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1653 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1658 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1661 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1665 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1668 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1669 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1671 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1676 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1680 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1681 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1682 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1686 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1693 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1700 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1703 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1705 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1706 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1707 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1709 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1710 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1711 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1715 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1718 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1719 * Update urls to web page.
1720 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1721 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1722 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1723 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1727 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1730 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1731 - typo in alternatives call
1732 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1734 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1735 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1739 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1742 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1747 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1753 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1759 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1762 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1764 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1765 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1766 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1767 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1768 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1769 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1770 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1771 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1772 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1773 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1774 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1778 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1781 package install. Closes: #415717
1782 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1783 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1784 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1785 script and then remove the python files.
1786 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1787 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1788 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1789 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1790 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1791 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1792 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1793 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1794 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1795 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1796 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1797 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1798 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1802 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Correct typo in french translation
1808 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1809 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1811 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1813 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1814 Closes: #406921, #381940
1815 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1817 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1818 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1819 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1820 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1821 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1822 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1823 specified). Closes: #381851
1824 * Misc minor changes.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1828 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1835 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1836 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1840 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1846 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1847 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1850 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1851 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1853 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1854 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1855 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1856 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1860 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1863 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1866 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1870 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1876 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1882 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1883 a difficult situation.
1884 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1885 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1886 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1887 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1888 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1889 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1890 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1891 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1892 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1893 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1897 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Non-maintainer upload.
1900 * Update of dh_python
1901 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1902 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1904 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1905 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1906 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1907 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1908 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1910 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1912 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Non-maintainer upload.
1915 * Update of dh_python
1916 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1917 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1918 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1919 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1920 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1921 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1922 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1923 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1924 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1925 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1927 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1928 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1929 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1930 the not too-distant future).
1931 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1932 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1933 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1934 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1935 thus made the build fail.
1937 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1939 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Non-maintainer upload.
1942 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1944 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1946 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1949 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1950 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1951 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1952 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1953 package. Closes: #301424
1954 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1955 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1956 fonts). Closes: #372686
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1960 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1966 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1967 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1968 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1969 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1970 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1971 above, but already depends on that.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1975 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1978 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1979 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1980 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1981 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1982 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1986 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1992 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1998 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1999 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
2003 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
2006 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
2010 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
2014 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
2015 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
2016 new version (0.24.1).
2017 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
2018 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
2021 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
2022 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
2023 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
2024 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
2025 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
2026 new directory on their own.
2027 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
2028 * Fix broken directory removal code.
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
2032 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
2035 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
2036 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
2037 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
2038 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
2042 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
2045 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
2046 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
2047 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
2048 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
2049 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
2053 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
2059 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Typo. Closes: #358904
2063 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
2064 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
2068 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2069 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2073 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2075 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2076 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2078 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2079 ignored. Closes: #337664
2081 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2086 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2092 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2097 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2098 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2099 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2100 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2101 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2102 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2103 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2107 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2110 version. Closes: #350607
2111 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2112 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2113 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2114 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2118 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2121 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2122 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2123 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2127 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2134 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2140 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2143 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2147 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2150 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2151 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2152 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2153 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2154 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2155 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2159 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2162 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2163 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2168 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2171 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2175 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2178 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2182 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2185 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2186 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2187 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2188 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2189 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2190 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2194 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2198 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2199 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2200 link. Closes: #346405
2201 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2203 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2204 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2205 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2206 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2207 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2208 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2209 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2213 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2220 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2226 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2229 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2233 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2236 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2241 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2245 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2246 installed. Closes: #342033
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2250 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2253 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2254 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2255 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2260 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2266 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2272 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2276 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2277 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2278 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2282 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2285 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2290 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2297 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2303 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2306 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2307 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2308 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2309 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2310 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2311 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2312 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2314 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2318 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2321 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2322 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2326 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2329 in standard man dirs.
2330 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2340 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2343 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2355 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2362 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2365 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2366 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2370 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2373 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2374 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2375 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2377 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2379 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2385 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2394 mode. Closes: #324161
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2398 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2401 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2402 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2403 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2404 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2409 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2412 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2413 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2414 is necesary for sanity.
2415 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2416 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2421 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2423 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2424 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2428 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2431 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2441 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2444 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2445 released, so use at your own risk.
2446 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2447 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2449 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2450 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2451 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2452 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2453 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2454 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2455 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2456 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2457 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2458 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2459 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2460 including twice per config file line now..
2461 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2462 and simplfy the rules file.
2463 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2464 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2465 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2467 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2468 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2472 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2475 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2479 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2482 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2486 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2489 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2493 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2496 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2497 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2498 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2499 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2500 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2501 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2505 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2508 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2509 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2510 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2515 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2518 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2519 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2524 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2527 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2528 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2529 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2534 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2537 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2538 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2539 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2543 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2549 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2556 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2559 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2560 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2561 unknown. Closes: #282924
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2565 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2572 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Spanish man page updates.
2575 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2580 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2586 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2589 * dh_desktop: reindent
2590 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2591 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2595 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2601 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2603 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2607 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2609 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2613 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2616 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2617 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2621 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2627 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2633 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2640 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2643 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2647 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2650 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2651 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2652 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2653 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2654 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2655 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2657 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2658 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2659 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2660 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2661 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2662 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2663 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2664 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2665 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2666 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2667 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2668 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2669 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2670 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2671 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2672 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2676 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2683 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2686 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2690 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2693 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2697 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2700 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2704 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2707 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2711 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2717 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2723 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2729 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2732 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2733 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2734 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2738 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2741 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2745 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2748 but occasionally right and necessary.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2752 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2755 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2756 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2757 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2758 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2759 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2763 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2766 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2768 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2769 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2770 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2771 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2772 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2773 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2774 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2775 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2776 postinst scripts for udebs.
2777 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2781 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2784 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2786 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2787 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2791 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2797 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2804 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2811 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2814 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2818 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2821 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2825 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2828 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2831 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2832 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2836 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2842 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2845 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2849 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2852 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2853 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2854 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2856 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2858 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2859 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2860 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2864 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2867 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2872 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2875 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2876 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2877 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2882 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2888 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2894 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2897 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2898 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2899 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2900 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2901 associated -dbg packages.
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2905 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2908 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2912 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2915 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2919 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2922 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2926 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2929 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2934 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2937 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2941 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2944 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2949 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2952 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2956 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2960 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2961 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2962 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2963 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2964 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2965 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2966 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2967 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2968 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2969 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2973 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2976 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2981 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2984 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2985 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2989 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2992 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2993 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2998 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
3001 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
3005 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
3008 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
3012 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
3015 out section number. Closes: #204731
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
3019 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
3026 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
3032 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
3038 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Typo, Closes: #203907
3041 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
3042 removal. Closes: #204286
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
3046 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
3049 renaming. Closes: #203548
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
3053 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
3056 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
3057 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
3061 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
3067 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3073 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3079 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3082 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3083 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3084 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3088 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3091 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3092 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3096 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3102 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3109 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3112 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3117 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3120 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3124 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3127 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3129 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3130 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3134 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3137 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3142 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3145 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3149 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3155 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3157 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3161 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3164 it break hard links (see #188663).
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3168 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3171 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3175 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3181 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3185 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3186 debconf-mergetemplates
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3190 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3193 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3197 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3200 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3204 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3207 * Update debhelper(1).
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3211 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3214 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3215 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3216 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3217 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3218 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3222 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3225 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3226 the shell. Closes: #178524
3227 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3231 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3234 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3238 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3241 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3245 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3248 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3249 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3250 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3251 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3256 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3259 files from installation.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3263 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3266 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3267 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3271 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3274 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3278 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3281 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3285 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3291 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3297 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3301 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3302 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3304 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3308 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3311 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3312 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3313 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3314 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3318 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3321 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3325 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3328 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3329 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3333 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3337 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3342 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3348 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3352 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3353 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3354 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3359 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3362 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3363 practice. Closes: #163303
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3367 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3373 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3380 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3383 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3385 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3386 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3387 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3388 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3389 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3393 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3396 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3401 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3407 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3414 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3417 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3422 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3428 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3434 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3440 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3447 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3450 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3451 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3452 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3453 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3458 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3464 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3471 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3474 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3475 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3479 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3482 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3483 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3484 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3485 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3486 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3490 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3493 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3495 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3500 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3503 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3507 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3510 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3511 right thing. Closes: #150644
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3515 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Stupid, evil typo.
3518 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3522 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3529 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3532 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3533 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3538 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3544 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3547 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3551 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3554 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3555 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3560 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3563 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3567 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3573 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3576 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3577 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3581 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3587 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * Removing perl warning message.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3593 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3596 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3597 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3598 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3599 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3600 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3601 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3602 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3603 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3607 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3613 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3620 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3623 debconf-mergetemplate.
3624 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3625 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3629 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3632 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3633 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3634 dh_install, which ...
3635 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3636 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3637 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3638 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3639 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3640 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3641 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3642 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3643 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3644 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3645 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3646 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3647 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3648 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3649 other minor changes.
3650 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3651 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3652 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3653 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3654 course there's -X ..)
3655 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3656 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3657 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3659 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3660 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3661 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3662 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3663 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3668 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3674 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3677 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3681 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3687 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3693 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3699 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3705 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3708 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3709 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3710 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3711 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3713 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3714 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3718 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3724 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3727 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3731 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3734 upset. Closes: #131322
3736 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3738 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3741 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3742 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3743 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3744 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3745 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3746 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3747 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3748 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3749 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3750 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3751 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3752 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3753 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3754 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3755 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3757 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3761 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3764 - Better indenting of generated code.
3765 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3769 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3773 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3774 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3775 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3776 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3777 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3778 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3779 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3783 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3786 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3790 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3793 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3794 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3795 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3796 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3797 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3798 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3799 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3800 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3801 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3802 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3803 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3804 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3805 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3806 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3807 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3812 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3818 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3821 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3822 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3826 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3829 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3830 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3834 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3840 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3843 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3844 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3845 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3846 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3847 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3852 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3858 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3861 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3865 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3868 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3873 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3879 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3882 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3886 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3892 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3896 Also some indentation fixes.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3900 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3903 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3904 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3905 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3906 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3907 Closes: #106514, #85520
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3911 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3917 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3923 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3929 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3935 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3941 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3944 change it in debhelper v4..
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3948 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3954 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3957 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3961 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3964 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3968 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3974 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3977 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3978 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3979 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3980 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3981 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3982 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3983 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3984 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3985 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3986 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3987 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3988 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3992 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3995 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3999 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
4006 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
4009 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
4010 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
4011 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
4012 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
4013 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
4014 program those options go to. So, for example,
4015 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
4016 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
4017 something complex. Closes: #89311
4018 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
4022 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
4025 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
4026 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
4027 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
4031 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
4034 through loop. Closes: #98598
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
4038 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * Missing semi-colon.
4041 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
4042 this (dh_* should be called, really).
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
4046 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
4049 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
4050 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
4051 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
4055 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4058 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
4059 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
4063 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
4066 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4070 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4073 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4074 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4078 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4081 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4082 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4083 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4087 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4090 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4091 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4092 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4096 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4099 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4103 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4109 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4115 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4121 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4127 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4130 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4134 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4137 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4138 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4139 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4140 followed. Closes: #85483
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4144 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4146 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4147 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4148 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4152 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4155 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4156 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4157 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4158 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4159 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4160 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4161 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4162 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4163 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4164 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4165 Closes: #88464, #77743
4166 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4167 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4168 us to deal with that gracefully.
4169 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4171 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4172 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4173 a while, Closes: #51225
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4177 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4183 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4186 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4190 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4194 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4199 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4202 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4203 don't make packlist files.
4204 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4205 debhelper coding standards.
4206 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4207 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4211 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4214 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4218 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4221 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4222 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4223 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4224 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4225 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4226 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4227 but is mildly deprecated.
4228 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4229 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4230 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4231 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4232 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4233 switching to statoverrides..
4234 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4235 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4236 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4237 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4238 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4239 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4241 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4242 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4243 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4244 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4245 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4246 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4247 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4248 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4249 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4251 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4252 variable names, pod man pages).
4253 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4254 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4255 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4256 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4257 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4258 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4259 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4263 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4269 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4276 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4279 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4283 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4285 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4286 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4287 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4291 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4293 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4294 they were previously ignored.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4298 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4300 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4301 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4305 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4307 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4308 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4309 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4313 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4315 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4319 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4321 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4322 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4326 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4328 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4329 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4330 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4331 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4332 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4333 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4334 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4335 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4336 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4337 it is an obsolete program.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4341 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4343 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4347 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4351 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4353 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4357 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4359 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4361 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4363 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4367 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4373 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * typo: Closes, #78567
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4379 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4385 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4391 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4394 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4395 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4396 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4397 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4398 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4402 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4405 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4410 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4413 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4414 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4415 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4416 backwards-compatibility.
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4420 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4423 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4424 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4425 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4426 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4427 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4428 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4430 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4431 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4432 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4434 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4436 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4437 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4438 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4439 should now be raised to severity important..
4440 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4441 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4445 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4448 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4453 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4459 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4465 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4471 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4478 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4481 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4482 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4483 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4484 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4488 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4494 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4497 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4498 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4499 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4500 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4501 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4502 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4507 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4509 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4510 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4514 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4516 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4520 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4523 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4528 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4531 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4532 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4533 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4534 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4538 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4542 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4545 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4548 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4549 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4552 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4554 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4555 the TODO entry about it.
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4559 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4566 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4569 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4570 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4577 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4578 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4579 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4580 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4584 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4586 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4590 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4597 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4600 (this appears to be logal).
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4607 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4608 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4609 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4610 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4614 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4620 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4623 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4624 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4625 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4626 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4630 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4636 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4639 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4643 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4650 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4653 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4654 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4655 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4660 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4667 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4673 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4676 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4677 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4678 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4679 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4680 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4681 notice until v2 is complete.
4682 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4683 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4684 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4685 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4686 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4687 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4689 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4690 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4691 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4692 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4696 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4702 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4709 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4712 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4716 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4723 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4726 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4727 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4728 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4729 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4734 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4737 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4738 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4739 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4744 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4747 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4748 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4752 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4755 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4759 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4762 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4766 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4773 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4776 depend on the build and install targets.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4780 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4783 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4787 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4794 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4800 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4806 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4809 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4810 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4811 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4812 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4813 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4814 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4816 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4817 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4818 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4819 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4820 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4821 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4822 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4826 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4828 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4832 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4838 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4841 right place. Closes: #55065
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4845 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4852 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4855 * Copyright date updates.
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4859 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4862 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4867 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4873 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4880 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4886 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4892 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4898 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4901 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4902 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4903 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4904 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4905 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4906 bits until all files have been registered.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4910 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * dh_installmanpages:
4913 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4914 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4915 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4916 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4917 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4918 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4919 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4920 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4921 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4922 otherwise change the result at all.
4924 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4925 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4926 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4927 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4928 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4933 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4939 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4942 act on files that don't exist.
4943 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4944 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4945 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4947 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4948 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4949 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4950 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4954 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4960 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4966 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4968 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4969 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4973 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4975 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4976 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4978 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4979 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4980 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4984 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4987 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4988 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4989 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4990 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4991 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4992 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4993 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4995 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4997 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
5001 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
5008 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
5014 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
5020 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
5023 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
5027 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
5033 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
5039 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
5042 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
5043 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
5044 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
5045 I made some changes, though:
5046 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
5047 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
5048 that is a clear violation of policy.
5049 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
5050 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
5051 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
5052 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
5053 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
5054 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
5055 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
5056 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
5057 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
5059 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
5063 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5069 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5072 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5076 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5079 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5080 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5085 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5091 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5098 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5101 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5102 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5103 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5104 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5105 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5106 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5107 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5111 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5117 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5121 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5122 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5126 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5132 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5135 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5139 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5142 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5143 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5147 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5149 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5154 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5158 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5162 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5165 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5166 for the dependancies to be generated.
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5170 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5173 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5177 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5180 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5181 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5182 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5187 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5190 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5191 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5195 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5201 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5207 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5210 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5214 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5220 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5223 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5224 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5225 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5226 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5227 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5228 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5229 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5230 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5231 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5232 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5233 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5234 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5238 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5241 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5242 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5244 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5245 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5246 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5247 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5248 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5249 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5251 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5252 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5256 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5259 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5263 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5270 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5273 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5278 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5281 for building debhelper.
5282 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5286 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5293 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5296 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5300 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5303 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5304 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5305 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5306 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5307 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5308 it's always available.
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5312 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5315 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5316 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5317 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5321 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5324 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5325 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5329 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5335 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5338 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5342 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5348 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5351 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5352 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5353 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5357 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5360 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5365 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5368 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5369 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5371 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5372 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5376 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5382 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5388 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5391 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5395 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5398 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5399 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5401 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5405 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5408 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5409 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5410 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5414 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5417 things if CDPATH is set.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5421 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5427 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5430 seems to make sense for the transition.
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5434 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5437 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5442 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5445 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5446 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5450 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5453 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5457 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5460 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5461 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5462 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5463 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5467 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5473 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5476 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5477 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5478 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5479 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5480 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5481 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5482 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5483 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5484 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5485 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5490 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5493 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5494 * README: mention doc/v2
5495 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5496 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5500 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5502 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5503 be using this script RSN.
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5507 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5510 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5511 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5512 more than 1 init script.
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5516 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5519 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5523 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * Changed perl version detection.
5526 * Changed call to find.
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5530 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5533 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5535 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5540 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * Really include dh_installpam.
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5546 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5549 * Wrote man page for same.
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5553 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5556 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5557 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5562 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5569 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5572 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5573 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5574 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5575 x bit was being set!
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5579 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5582 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5583 well. (Closes: 38900)
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5587 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5590 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5591 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5595 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5601 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5608 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5610 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5614 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5617 help from Julian Gilbey.
5618 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5619 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5620 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5621 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5622 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5623 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5624 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5629 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5635 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5642 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5648 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5650 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5654 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5657 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5661 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5664 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5668 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5670 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5671 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5675 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5677 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5681 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5684 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5688 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5690 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5694 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5700 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5703 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5704 may be deleted. (#35845)
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5708 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * Various man page enhancements.
5711 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5716 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5719 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5720 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5724 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5727 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5728 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5729 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5731 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5732 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5737 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5743 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5745 * Another very minor typo fix.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5749 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * Very minor typo fix.
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5755 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5758 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5759 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5763 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5765 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5769 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5772 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5773 variables properly (#34850).
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5777 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5783 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5786 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5787 (automatically generated by build process).
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5791 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5793 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5797 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5800 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5801 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5803 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5807 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5809 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5810 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5814 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * README: minor typo fix.
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5820 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5823 leave it at that. :-)
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5827 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5833 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5839 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5841 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5842 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5843 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5844 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5848 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5850 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5851 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5855 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5858 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5862 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5865 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5866 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5867 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5868 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5872 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5875 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5876 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5877 Craig Small for spotting this.
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5881 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5884 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5885 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5889 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5891 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5895 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5897 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5898 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5902 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5904 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5905 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5906 working on the last version of debhelper.
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5910 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5912 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5913 being made. (#23255)
5915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5917 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5919 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5923 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5925 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5926 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5930 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5932 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5933 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5934 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5935 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5936 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5940 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5943 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5944 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5945 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5946 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5948 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5949 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5951 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5956 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5962 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5968 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5971 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5972 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5973 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5974 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5975 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5976 suidregister actually supports it.
5977 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5978 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5982 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5984 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5989 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5992 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5993 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5994 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5995 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5996 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5997 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5998 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
6002 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
6004 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
6005 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
6009 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
6012 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
6013 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
6014 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
6015 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
6017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
6019 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
6021 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
6022 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
6024 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
6025 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
6026 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
6027 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
6028 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
6029 effect, either. (#30118)
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
6033 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
6039 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
6042 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
6043 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
6045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
6047 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
6049 * Spelling and typo fixes.
6051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
6053 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
6055 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
6056 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
6057 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
6058 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
6059 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
6061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
6063 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
6065 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
6066 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
6067 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6071 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6073 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6077 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6079 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6080 packages, painlessly.
6082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6084 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6086 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6090 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6092 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6096 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6098 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6102 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * The perl conversion is complete.
6106 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6108 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6109 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6110 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6115 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6117 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6118 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6119 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6120 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6124 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6127 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6129 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6131 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6132 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6136 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6138 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6139 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6140 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6144 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6146 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6150 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6153 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6154 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6155 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6156 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6157 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6161 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6163 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6164 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6165 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6166 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6167 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6171 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6173 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6174 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6178 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6181 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6182 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6183 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6184 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6185 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6186 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6187 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6188 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6192 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6194 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6198 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6201 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6202 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6203 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6208 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6210 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6211 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6215 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6217 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6218 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6222 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6225 sections of shared libraries.
6226 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6227 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6228 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6229 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6230 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6231 things you don't want them to.
6232 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6233 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6237 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6239 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6240 shared libraries. (#26414)
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6244 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6246 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6247 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6248 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6249 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6253 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6255 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6257 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6259 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6260 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6261 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6262 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6263 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6267 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6269 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6270 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6274 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6276 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6277 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6278 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6283 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6285 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6286 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6290 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6293 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6294 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6295 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6296 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6297 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6299 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6300 remove debian/files properly.
6301 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6302 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6303 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6304 * Removed bogus menu file.
6306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6308 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6310 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6311 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6315 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6318 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6319 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6320 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6321 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6322 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6323 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6327 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6329 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6330 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6331 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6332 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6333 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6337 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6339 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6344 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6346 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6347 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6348 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6350 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6351 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6352 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6353 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6354 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6355 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6359 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6361 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6362 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6363 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6364 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6365 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6366 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6367 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6368 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6369 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6370 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6371 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6372 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6373 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6374 passed any switches.
6375 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6379 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6381 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6382 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6383 at all for a long while.
6384 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6385 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6386 large chunks in the process.
6387 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6388 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6389 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6394 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6396 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6397 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6399 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6404 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6406 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6407 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6408 that don't always have the same files in them.
6409 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6410 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6411 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6415 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6417 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6419 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6420 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6421 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6422 updating 27 man pages.
6423 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6424 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6425 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6426 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6427 programs act on. (#25247)
6429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6431 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6435 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6436 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6437 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6438 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6439 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6440 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6445 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6447 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6452 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6454 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6459 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6461 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6462 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6466 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6468 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6472 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6474 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6475 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6476 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6477 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6478 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6479 package by accident.
6480 * Is version 1.0 next?
6482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6484 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6486 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6487 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6488 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6492 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6494 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6495 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6496 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6497 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6498 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6499 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6501 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6506 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6508 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6509 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6510 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6514 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6516 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6517 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6521 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6523 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6524 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6525 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6530 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6532 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6536 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6538 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6539 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6540 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6545 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6547 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6551 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6553 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6554 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6555 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6556 past week. Thanks, guys!
6558 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6559 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6560 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6561 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6562 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6563 would do in the same situation.
6564 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6565 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6567 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6569 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6570 permissions changed.
6571 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6572 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6573 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6574 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6575 files are treated identically.
6576 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6577 * Minor man page fixes.
6578 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6579 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6580 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6584 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6586 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6587 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6588 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6589 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6590 use -X multiple times, too.
6591 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6592 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6596 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6598 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6599 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6600 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6604 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6606 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6607 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6611 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6613 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6614 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6615 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6616 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6617 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6618 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6619 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6620 shape if you're starting a new package.
6622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6624 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6626 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6627 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6631 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6633 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6634 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6635 because of missing symlinks.
6637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6639 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6641 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6645 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6647 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6648 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6649 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6650 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6651 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6652 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6654 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6655 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6659 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6661 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6662 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6663 to be changed after the fact :-)
6664 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6668 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6670 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6671 no version string after the -V.
6673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6675 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6677 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6678 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6683 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6685 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6686 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6690 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6692 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6693 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6694 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6695 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6696 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6697 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6698 I always welcome corrections!
6700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6702 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6704 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6708 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6710 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6711 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6712 * Documented this new switch.
6714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6716 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6718 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6719 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6720 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6721 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6722 no packages use the old behavior.
6724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6726 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6728 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6729 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6730 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6734 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6736 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6737 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6741 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6743 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6747 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6749 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6750 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6754 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6756 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6757 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6758 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6759 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6763 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6765 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6769 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6771 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6772 into the source package by accident.
6774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6776 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6778 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6779 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6780 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6781 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6782 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6783 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6784 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6789 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6791 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6793 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6794 inspired to implement some of it.
6795 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6799 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6801 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6802 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6806 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6808 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6809 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6810 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6814 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6816 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6817 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6818 have done.) (#17598)
6820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6822 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6824 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6828 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6830 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6834 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6836 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6837 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6841 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6843 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6844 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6845 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6849 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6851 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6852 argument processor in perl.
6853 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6854 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6855 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6856 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6860 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6862 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6863 type directories. (#16933)
6864 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6865 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6866 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6867 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6868 are supported. (#16935)
6869 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6874 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6876 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6877 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6881 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6883 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6885 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6886 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6887 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6888 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6889 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6890 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6894 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6896 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6897 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6898 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6900 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6901 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6902 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6903 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6904 a given package, or -i or -a.
6905 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6906 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6907 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6908 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6909 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6910 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6911 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6912 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6913 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6915 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6916 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6917 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6921 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6923 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6924 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6925 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6930 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6932 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6933 does not have a section.
6935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6937 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6939 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6940 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6941 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6942 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6946 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6948 * Fixed typo #16215.
6950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6952 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6954 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6955 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6956 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6957 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6958 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6959 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6964 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6966 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6967 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6968 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6969 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6974 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6976 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6980 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6982 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6986 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6988 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6989 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6990 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6991 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6992 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6993 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6994 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6998 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
7000 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
7002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
7004 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
7006 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
7007 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
7009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
7011 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
7013 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
7014 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
7015 the dh_* programs (#15497).
7016 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
7018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
7020 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
7022 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
7023 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
7025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
7027 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
7029 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
7031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
7033 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
7035 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
7036 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
7038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
7040 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
7042 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
7043 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
7045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
7047 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
7049 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
7051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
7053 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
7055 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
7056 postinst, postrm, etc.
7058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
7060 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
7062 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
7064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
7066 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
7068 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7069 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7070 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7071 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7072 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7073 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7077 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7079 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7080 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7081 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7085 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7087 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7088 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7092 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7094 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7095 installing package files into.
7096 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7101 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7103 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7105 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7109 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7111 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7115 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7117 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7118 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7122 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7124 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7125 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7126 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7127 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7128 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7132 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7134 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7135 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7136 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7137 multiple binary packages.
7138 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7139 should rebuild them with this version.
7140 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7144 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7146 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7147 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7151 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7153 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7154 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7158 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7160 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7161 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7162 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7163 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7164 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7165 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7166 debian/README.debian.
7167 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7168 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7169 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7170 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7171 in a few situations.)
7173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7175 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7177 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7181 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7183 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7187 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7189 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7190 * Fixed several man pages.
7192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7194 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7196 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7197 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7198 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7202 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7204 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7205 is ready for general use.
7206 * Added man pages for all commands.
7207 * Multiple binary package support.
7208 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7209 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7210 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7212 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7213 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7214 auto-installed as parameters.
7215 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7217 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7220 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7221 the package build directory it is to act on.
7222 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7223 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7224 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7228 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7230 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7231 ready to replace debstd.
7233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400