1 debhelper (9.20120323) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:18:58 -0400
7 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
10 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
11 Added to interface documentation.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
16 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
22 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
25 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
26 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
27 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
29 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
30 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
31 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
32 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
33 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
38 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
41 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
42 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
43 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
44 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
45 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
46 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
50 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Typo. Closes: #653006
53 * Typo. Closes: #653339
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
57 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
60 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
61 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
62 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
63 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
64 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
68 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
71 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
72 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
73 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
74 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
75 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
76 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
77 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
81 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
87 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
90 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
91 may need to disable this.
92 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
93 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
94 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
95 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
99 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
102 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
103 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
107 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
109 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
110 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
111 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
113 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
114 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
115 to dh. Closes: #643069
116 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
117 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
121 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
124 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
125 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
126 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
127 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
129 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
130 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
131 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
133 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
134 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
135 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
136 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
137 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
138 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
139 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
140 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
141 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
142 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
143 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
144 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
145 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
146 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
147 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
151 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
153 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
158 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
160 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
161 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
163 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
169 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
172 Use override targets instead.
173 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
174 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
175 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
176 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
177 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
178 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
179 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
180 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
181 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
182 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
187 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
190 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
194 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
200 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
203 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
204 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
205 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
206 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
207 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
208 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
212 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
215 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
216 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
217 the targets. Closes: #629139
218 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
219 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
220 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
221 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
222 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
223 are already set to other values will not be changed.
225 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
226 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
227 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
228 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
229 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
234 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
236 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
240 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
243 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
244 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
248 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
251 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
252 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
253 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
254 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
255 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
256 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
257 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
262 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
265 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
266 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
267 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
269 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
270 changes may be added to that mode.
271 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
272 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
273 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
274 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
275 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
276 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
277 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
278 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
279 * Removed old example rules files.
280 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
284 * update french translation.
285 * Fix french misspelling.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
289 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
292 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
296 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
299 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
300 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
301 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
302 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
303 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
304 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
305 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
309 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
312 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
313 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
314 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
315 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
316 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
317 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
319 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
320 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
321 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
322 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
323 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
324 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
325 (Thanks, David Prévot)
326 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
327 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
328 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
329 target fails. Closes: #601037
330 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
332 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
333 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
334 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
335 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
336 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
338 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
339 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
341 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
342 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
343 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
345 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
347 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
350 * update french translation.
351 * Fix french misspelling.
352 * French translation update after massive man page typography
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
356 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
362 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
366 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
368 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
372 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
374 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
375 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
376 introduced by the fix to #527990.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
380 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
383 changes are planned for that mode.
384 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
385 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
386 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
387 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
388 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
389 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
390 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
391 (genesis) still uses them.
392 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
393 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
394 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
395 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
396 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
397 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
398 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
399 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
400 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
401 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
402 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
403 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
404 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
405 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
406 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
407 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
408 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
409 commands. (See #570039)
410 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
412 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
417 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
421 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
422 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
423 in control file or debhelper config files.
424 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
428 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
431 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
432 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
436 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
439 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
443 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
446 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
447 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
451 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Updated French translation.
454 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
455 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
456 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
457 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
459 * Typo. Closes: #571968
460 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
461 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
462 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
463 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
464 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
465 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
466 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
467 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
468 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
470 * dh: Improve documentation.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
474 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
476 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
477 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
478 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
482 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
485 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
489 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
491 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
492 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
496 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
499 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
500 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
501 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
502 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
503 options that they do not support.
504 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
505 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
506 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
507 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
508 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
509 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
514 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
518 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
519 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
520 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
521 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
522 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
523 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
524 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
525 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
526 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
530 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
533 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
534 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
535 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
536 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
540 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Typo. Closes: #558654
543 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
544 installed. Closes: #558782
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
548 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
551 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
552 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
553 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
554 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
555 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
559 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
561 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
562 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
563 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
564 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
568 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
571 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
572 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
576 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
578 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
582 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
584 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
585 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
586 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
587 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
588 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
589 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
590 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
591 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
592 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
593 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
594 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
595 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
596 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
597 time soon.) Closes: #554509
598 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
600 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
601 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
602 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
603 document id. Closes: #555677
604 * Typo. Closes: #555659
605 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
606 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
607 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
608 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
610 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
611 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
612 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
617 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
620 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
621 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
622 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
623 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
624 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
625 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
626 translation (#494300 part 2)
629 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
631 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
632 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
633 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
634 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
635 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
639 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
642 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
643 (It was only run once due to logging.)
644 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
645 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
646 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
647 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
648 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
649 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
650 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
651 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
652 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
653 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
657 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
661 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
664 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
665 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
669 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
672 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
673 flag with arch all/any packages.
674 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
675 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
676 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
677 situation. Closes: #540794
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
681 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
685 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
686 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
687 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
688 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
689 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
692 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
693 the default. Closes: #538201
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
698 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
702 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
703 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
704 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
705 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
706 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
708 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
709 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
710 * Above Closes: #491117
711 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
716 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
722 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
723 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
724 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
728 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
731 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
732 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
733 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
734 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
735 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
740 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
743 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
744 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
748 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
750 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
754 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
756 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
757 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
759 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
760 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
761 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
765 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
767 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
768 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
772 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
778 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
780 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
781 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
782 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
787 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
789 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
793 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
796 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
797 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
798 created by using `python' first during build and install.
800 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
805 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
807 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
811 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
813 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
814 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
818 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
820 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
824 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
826 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
830 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
832 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
833 contributed by Modestas Vainius
834 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
835 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
836 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
837 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
838 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
839 that support it. Closes: #480577
840 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
841 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
842 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
844 - Adds support for cmake.
845 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
846 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
848 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
850 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
851 that use them. The options are:
852 --sourcedir, --destdir
853 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
854 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
855 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
856 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
857 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
861 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
867 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
869 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
870 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
871 default. Closes: #537140
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
875 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
878 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
879 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
883 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
886 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
890 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
893 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
897 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
900 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
902 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
903 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
904 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
908 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
911 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
912 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
913 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
917 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
920 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
921 warning or deprecation message.
922 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
923 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
924 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
925 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
926 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
927 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
928 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
929 Closes: #534639, #357434
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
933 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
939 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
942 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
943 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
944 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
945 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
947 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
948 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
949 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
953 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
959 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
966 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
969 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
973 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
977 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
978 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
980 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
981 file support. Closes: #494914
982 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
986 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
989 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
990 parameters. Closes: #527256
991 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
992 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
993 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
997 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1000 (Patch from #459548)
1001 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1002 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1003 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1007 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1010 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1011 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1012 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1016 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1019 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1020 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1022 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1023 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1024 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1028 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1032 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1036 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1039 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1040 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1041 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1042 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1047 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1053 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1056 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1057 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1058 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1059 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1060 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1062 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1063 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1064 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1065 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1066 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1067 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1071 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1074 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1075 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1076 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1077 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1078 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1080 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1084 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1086 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1090 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1092 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1093 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1094 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1095 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1096 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1097 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1098 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1099 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1100 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1101 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1102 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1106 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1108 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1109 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1111 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1112 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1113 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1114 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1116 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1117 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1121 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1123 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1124 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1125 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1126 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1127 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1128 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1129 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1131 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1132 that uses them. Affected options are:
1133 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1134 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1135 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1136 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1137 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1138 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1139 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1140 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1141 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1142 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1143 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1144 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1148 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1155 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1161 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1164 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1166 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1167 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1168 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1169 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1170 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1171 than the old method.
1172 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1174 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1175 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1176 rules (see bug #509756).
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1180 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1186 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1187 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1188 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1189 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1193 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1196 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1197 empty files. Closes: #490937
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1201 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1207 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1214 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1217 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1218 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1219 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1220 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1225 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1227 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1228 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1229 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1230 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1234 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1237 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1238 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1239 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1240 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1241 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1245 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1252 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1255 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1256 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1257 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1258 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1259 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1260 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1261 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1262 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1263 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1267 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1270 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1271 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1272 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1273 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1275 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1276 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1277 breaking backwards compatibility.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1281 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1284 message in perl 5.10.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1288 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1294 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1297 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1301 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1304 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1308 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1311 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1312 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1313 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1314 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1315 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1316 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1317 logging by dh_listpackages.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1321 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1324 run and there are no packages of that type.
1325 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1326 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1327 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1328 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1330 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1331 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1335 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1338 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1339 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1343 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1346 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1347 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1349 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1350 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1351 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1352 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1353 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1354 planned but not yet implemented.)
1355 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1356 if the Makefile has such a target.
1357 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1358 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1359 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1360 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1361 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1362 but not yet implemented.)
1363 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1364 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1365 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1366 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1367 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1369 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1371 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1372 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1374 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1375 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1376 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1381 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1384 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1385 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1389 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1391 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1392 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1393 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1397 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1403 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1409 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1412 just those installed by the program.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1416 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1419 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1420 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1424 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1427 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1428 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1429 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1430 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1434 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1437 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1438 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1442 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1445 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1446 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1450 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1453 with policy. Closes: #461392
1454 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1455 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1456 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1457 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1458 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1462 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1465 Closes: #460340, #460351
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1469 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1472 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1473 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1474 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1475 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1479 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1482 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1483 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1484 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1485 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1486 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1487 package build directory won't work.
1488 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1489 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1490 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1491 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1492 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1493 mode. Closes: #459426
1494 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1499 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1502 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1506 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1510 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1511 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1512 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1513 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1514 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1515 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1519 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1522 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1523 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1524 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1525 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1529 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1532 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1533 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1534 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1535 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1536 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1540 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1543 debian/package.triggers files.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1547 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1550 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1554 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1557 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1558 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1559 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1560 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1565 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1568 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1572 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1575 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1576 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1578 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1583 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1587 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1588 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1589 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1593 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1600 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1607 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1610 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1612 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1613 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1614 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1616 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1617 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1618 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1622 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1625 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1626 * Update urls to web page.
1627 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1628 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1629 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1630 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1634 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1637 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1638 - typo in alternatives call
1639 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1641 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1642 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1646 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1649 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1654 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1660 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1666 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1669 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1671 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1672 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1673 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1674 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1675 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1676 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1677 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1678 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1679 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1680 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1681 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1685 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1688 package install. Closes: #415717
1689 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1690 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1691 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1692 script and then remove the python files.
1693 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1694 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1695 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1696 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1697 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1698 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1699 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1700 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1701 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1702 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1703 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1704 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1705 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1709 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Correct typo in french translation
1715 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1716 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1718 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1720 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1721 Closes: #406921, #381940
1722 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1724 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1725 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1726 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1727 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1728 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1729 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1730 specified). Closes: #381851
1731 * Misc minor changes.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1735 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1742 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1743 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1747 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1753 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1754 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1757 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1758 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1760 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1761 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1762 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1763 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1767 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1770 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1773 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1777 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1783 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1789 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1790 a difficult situation.
1791 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1792 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1793 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1794 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1795 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1796 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1797 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1798 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1799 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1800 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1804 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Non-maintainer upload.
1807 * Update of dh_python
1808 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1809 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1811 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1812 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1813 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1814 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1815 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1817 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1819 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Non-maintainer upload.
1822 * Update of dh_python
1823 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1824 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1825 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1826 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1827 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1828 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1829 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1830 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1831 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1832 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1834 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1835 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1836 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1837 the not too-distant future).
1838 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1839 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1840 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1841 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1842 thus made the build fail.
1844 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1846 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Non-maintainer upload.
1849 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1851 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1853 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1856 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1857 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1858 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1859 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1860 package. Closes: #301424
1861 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1862 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1863 fonts). Closes: #372686
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1867 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1873 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1874 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1875 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1876 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1877 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1878 above, but already depends on that.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1882 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1885 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1886 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1887 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1888 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1889 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1893 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1899 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1905 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1906 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1910 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1913 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1917 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1921 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1922 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1923 new version (0.24.1).
1924 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1925 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1928 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1929 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1930 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1931 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1932 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1933 new directory on their own.
1934 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1935 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1939 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1942 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1943 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1944 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1945 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1949 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1952 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1953 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1954 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1955 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1956 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1960 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1966 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1970 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1971 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1975 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1976 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1980 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1982 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1983 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1985 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1986 ignored. Closes: #337664
1988 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1993 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1999 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2004 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2005 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2006 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2007 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2008 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2009 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2010 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2014 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2017 version. Closes: #350607
2018 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2019 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2020 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2021 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2025 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2028 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2029 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2030 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2034 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2041 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2047 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2050 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2054 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2057 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2058 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2059 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2060 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2061 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2062 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2066 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2069 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2070 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2075 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2078 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2082 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2085 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2089 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2092 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2093 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2094 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2095 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2096 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2097 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2101 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2105 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2106 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2107 link. Closes: #346405
2108 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2110 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2111 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2112 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2113 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2114 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2115 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2116 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2120 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2127 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2133 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2136 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2140 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2143 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2148 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2152 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2153 installed. Closes: #342033
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2157 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2160 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2161 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2162 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2167 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2173 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2179 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2183 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2184 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2185 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2189 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2192 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2197 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2204 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2210 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2213 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2214 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2215 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2216 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2217 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2218 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2219 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2221 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2225 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2228 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2229 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2233 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2236 in standard man dirs.
2237 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2241 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2247 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2250 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2255 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2262 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2269 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2272 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2273 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2277 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2280 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2281 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2282 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2284 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2286 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2292 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2298 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2301 mode. Closes: #324161
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2305 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2308 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2309 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2310 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2311 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2316 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2319 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2320 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2321 is necesary for sanity.
2322 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2323 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2328 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2330 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2331 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2335 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2338 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2351 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2352 released, so use at your own risk.
2353 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2354 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2356 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2357 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2358 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2359 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2360 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2361 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2362 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2363 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2364 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2365 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2366 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2367 including twice per config file line now..
2368 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2369 and simplfy the rules file.
2370 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2371 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2372 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2374 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2375 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2379 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2382 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2386 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2389 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2393 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2396 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2400 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2403 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2404 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2405 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2406 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2407 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2408 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2412 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2415 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2416 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2417 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2422 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2425 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2426 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2431 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2434 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2435 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2436 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2441 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2444 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2445 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2446 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2450 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2456 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2463 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2466 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2467 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2468 unknown. Closes: #282924
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2472 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2479 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Spanish man page updates.
2482 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2487 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2493 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2496 * dh_desktop: reindent
2497 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2498 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2508 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2510 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2514 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2516 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2520 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2523 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2524 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2528 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2534 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2540 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2547 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2550 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2554 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2557 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2558 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2559 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2560 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2561 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2562 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2564 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2565 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2566 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2567 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2568 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2569 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2570 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2571 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2572 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2573 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2574 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2575 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2576 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2577 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2578 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2579 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2583 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2590 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2593 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2597 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2600 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2604 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2607 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2611 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2614 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2618 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2624 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2630 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2636 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2639 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2640 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2641 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2645 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2648 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2652 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2655 but occasionally right and necessary.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2659 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2662 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2663 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2664 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2665 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2666 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2670 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2673 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2675 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2676 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2677 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2678 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2679 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2680 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2681 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2682 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2683 postinst scripts for udebs.
2684 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2688 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2691 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2693 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2694 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2698 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2704 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2711 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2718 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2721 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2725 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2728 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2732 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2735 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2738 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2739 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2743 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2749 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2752 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2756 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2759 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2760 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2761 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2763 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2765 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2766 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2767 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2771 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2774 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2779 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2782 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2783 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2784 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2789 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2795 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2801 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2804 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2805 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2806 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2807 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2808 associated -dbg packages.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2812 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2815 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2819 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2822 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2826 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2829 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2833 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2836 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2841 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2844 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2848 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2851 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2856 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2859 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2863 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2867 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2868 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2869 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2870 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2871 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2872 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2873 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2874 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2875 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2876 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2880 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2883 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2888 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2891 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2892 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2896 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2899 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2900 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2905 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2908 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2912 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2915 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2919 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2922 out section number. Closes: #204731
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2926 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2933 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2939 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2945 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2948 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2949 removal. Closes: #204286
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2953 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2956 renaming. Closes: #203548
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2960 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2963 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2964 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2968 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2974 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2980 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2986 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2989 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2990 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2991 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2995 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2998 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2999 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3003 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3009 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3016 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3019 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3024 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3027 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3031 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3034 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3036 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3037 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3041 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3044 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3049 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3052 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3056 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3062 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3064 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3068 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3071 it break hard links (see #188663).
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3075 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3078 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3082 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3088 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3092 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3093 debconf-mergetemplates
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3097 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3100 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3104 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3107 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3111 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3114 * Update debhelper(1).
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3118 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3121 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3122 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3123 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3124 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3125 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3129 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3132 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3133 the shell. Closes: #178524
3134 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3138 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3141 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3145 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3148 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3152 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3155 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3156 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3157 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3158 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3163 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3166 files from installation.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3170 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3173 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3174 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3178 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3181 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3185 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3188 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3192 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3198 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3204 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3208 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3209 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3211 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3215 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3218 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3219 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3220 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3221 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3225 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3228 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3232 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3235 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3236 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3240 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3244 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3249 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3255 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3259 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3260 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3261 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3266 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3269 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3270 practice. Closes: #163303
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3274 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3280 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3287 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3290 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3292 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3293 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3294 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3295 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3296 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3300 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3303 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3308 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3314 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3321 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3324 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3329 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3335 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3341 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3347 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3354 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3357 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3358 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3359 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3360 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3365 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3371 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3378 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3381 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3382 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3386 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3389 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3390 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3391 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3392 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3393 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3397 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3400 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3402 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3407 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3410 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3414 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3417 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3418 right thing. Closes: #150644
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3422 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * Stupid, evil typo.
3425 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3429 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3436 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3439 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3440 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3445 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3451 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3454 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3458 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3461 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3462 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3467 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3470 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3474 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3480 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3483 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3484 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3488 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3494 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Removing perl warning message.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3500 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3503 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3504 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3505 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3506 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3507 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3508 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3509 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3510 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3514 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3520 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3527 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3530 debconf-mergetemplate.
3531 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3532 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3536 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3539 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3540 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3541 dh_install, which ...
3542 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3543 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3544 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3545 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3546 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3547 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3548 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3549 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3550 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3551 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3552 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3553 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3554 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3555 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3556 other minor changes.
3557 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3558 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3559 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3560 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3561 course there's -X ..)
3562 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3563 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3564 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3566 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3567 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3568 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3569 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3570 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3575 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3581 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3584 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3588 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3594 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3600 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3606 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3612 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3615 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3616 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3617 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3618 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3620 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3621 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3625 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3631 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3634 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3638 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3641 upset. Closes: #131322
3643 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3645 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3648 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3649 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3650 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3651 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3652 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3653 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3654 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3655 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3656 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3657 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3658 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3659 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3660 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3661 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3662 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3664 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3668 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3671 - Better indenting of generated code.
3672 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3676 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3680 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3681 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3682 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3683 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3684 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3685 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3686 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3690 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3693 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3697 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3700 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3701 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3702 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3703 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3704 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3705 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3706 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3707 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3708 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3709 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3710 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3711 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3712 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3713 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3714 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3719 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3725 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3728 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3729 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3733 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3736 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3737 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3741 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3747 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3750 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3751 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3752 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3753 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3754 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3759 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3765 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3768 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3772 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3775 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3780 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3786 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3789 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3793 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3799 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3803 Also some indentation fixes.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3807 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3810 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3811 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3812 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3813 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3814 Closes: #106514, #85520
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3818 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3824 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3830 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3836 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3842 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3848 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3851 change it in debhelper v4..
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3855 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3861 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3864 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3868 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3871 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3875 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3881 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3884 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3885 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3886 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3887 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3888 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3889 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3890 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3891 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3892 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3893 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3894 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3895 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3899 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3902 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3906 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3913 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3916 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3917 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3918 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3919 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3920 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3921 program those options go to. So, for example,
3922 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3923 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3924 something complex. Closes: #89311
3925 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3929 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3932 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3933 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3934 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3938 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3941 through loop. Closes: #98598
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3945 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * Missing semi-colon.
3948 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3949 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3953 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3956 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3957 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3958 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3962 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3965 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3966 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3970 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3973 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3977 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3980 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3981 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3985 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3988 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3989 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3990 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3994 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3997 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3998 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3999 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4003 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4006 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4010 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4016 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4022 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4028 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4034 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4037 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4041 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4044 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4045 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4046 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4047 followed. Closes: #85483
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4051 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4053 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4054 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4055 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4059 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4062 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4063 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4064 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4065 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4066 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4067 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4068 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4069 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4070 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4071 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4072 Closes: #88464, #77743
4073 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4074 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4075 us to deal with that gracefully.
4076 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4078 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4079 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4080 a while, Closes: #51225
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4084 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4090 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4093 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4097 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4101 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4106 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4109 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4110 don't make packlist files.
4111 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4112 debhelper coding standards.
4113 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4114 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4118 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4121 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4125 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4128 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4129 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4130 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4131 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4132 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4133 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4134 but is mildly deprecated.
4135 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4136 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4137 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4138 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4139 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4140 switching to statoverrides..
4141 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4142 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4143 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4144 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4145 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4146 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4148 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4149 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4150 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4151 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4152 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4153 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4154 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4155 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4156 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4158 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4159 variable names, pod man pages).
4160 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4161 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4162 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4163 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4164 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4165 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4166 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4170 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4176 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4183 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4186 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4190 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4192 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4193 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4194 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4198 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4200 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4201 they were previously ignored.
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4205 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4207 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4208 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4212 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4214 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4215 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4216 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4220 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4222 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4226 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4228 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4229 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4233 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4235 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4236 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4237 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4238 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4239 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4240 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4241 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4242 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4243 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4244 it is an obsolete program.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4248 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4250 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4254 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4258 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4260 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4264 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4266 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4268 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4270 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4274 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4280 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * typo: Closes, #78567
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4286 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4292 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4298 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4301 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4302 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4303 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4304 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4305 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4309 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4312 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4317 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4320 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4321 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4322 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4323 backwards-compatibility.
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4327 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4330 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4331 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4332 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4333 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4334 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4335 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4337 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4338 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4339 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4341 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4343 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4344 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4345 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4346 should now be raised to severity important..
4347 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4348 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4352 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4355 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4360 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4366 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4372 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4378 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4385 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4388 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4389 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4390 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4391 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4395 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4401 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4404 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4405 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4406 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4407 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4408 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4409 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4414 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4417 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4421 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4427 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4430 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4435 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4438 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4439 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4440 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4441 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4445 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4449 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4452 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4455 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4456 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4459 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4461 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4462 the TODO entry about it.
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4466 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4473 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4476 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4477 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4481 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4484 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4485 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4486 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4487 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4491 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4497 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4504 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4507 (this appears to be logal).
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4511 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4514 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4515 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4516 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4517 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4521 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4527 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4530 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4531 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4532 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4533 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4537 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4543 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4546 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4550 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4557 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4560 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4561 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4562 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4567 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4583 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4584 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4585 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4586 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4587 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4588 notice until v2 is complete.
4589 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4590 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4591 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4592 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4593 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4594 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4596 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4597 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4598 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4599 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4603 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4609 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4616 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4619 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4623 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4630 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4633 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4634 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4635 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4636 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4641 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4644 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4645 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4646 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4651 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4654 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4655 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4659 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4662 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4666 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4669 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4673 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4683 depend on the build and install targets.
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4687 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4690 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4694 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4701 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4707 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4713 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4716 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4717 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4718 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4719 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4720 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4721 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4723 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4724 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4725 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4726 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4727 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4728 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4729 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4733 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4739 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4745 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4748 right place. Closes: #55065
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4752 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4759 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4762 * Copyright date updates.
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4766 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4769 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4774 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4780 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4787 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4793 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4799 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4805 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4808 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4809 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4810 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4811 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4812 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4813 bits until all files have been registered.
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4817 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * dh_installmanpages:
4820 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4821 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4822 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4823 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4824 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4825 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4826 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4827 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4828 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4829 otherwise change the result at all.
4831 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4832 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4833 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4834 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4835 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4840 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4846 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4849 act on files that don't exist.
4850 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4851 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4852 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4854 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4855 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4856 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4857 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4861 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4867 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4873 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4876 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4880 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4883 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4885 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4886 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4887 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4891 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4894 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4895 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4896 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4897 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4898 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4899 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4900 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4902 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4904 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4908 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4915 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4921 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4927 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4930 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4934 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4940 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4946 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4949 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4950 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4951 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4952 I made some changes, though:
4953 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4954 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4955 that is a clear violation of policy.
4956 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4957 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4958 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4959 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4960 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4961 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4962 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4963 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4964 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4966 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4970 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4976 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4979 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4983 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4986 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4987 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4992 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4994 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4998 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5005 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5008 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5009 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5010 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5011 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5012 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5013 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5014 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5018 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5020 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5024 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5028 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5029 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5033 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5039 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5042 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5046 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5049 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5050 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5054 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5056 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5061 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5065 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5069 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5072 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5073 for the dependancies to be generated.
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5077 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5080 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5084 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5086 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5087 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5088 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5089 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5094 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5097 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5098 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5102 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5108 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5114 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5117 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5121 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5127 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5130 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5131 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5132 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5133 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5134 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5135 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5136 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5137 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5138 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5139 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5140 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5141 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5145 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5148 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5149 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5151 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5152 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5153 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5154 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5155 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5156 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5158 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5159 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5163 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5166 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5170 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5177 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5180 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5185 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5187 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5188 for building debhelper.
5189 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5193 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5200 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5203 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5207 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5210 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5211 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5212 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5213 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5214 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5215 it's always available.
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5219 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5222 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5223 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5224 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5228 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5230 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5231 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5232 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5236 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5242 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5245 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5249 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5255 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5258 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5259 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5260 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5264 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5267 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5272 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5275 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5276 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5278 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5279 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5283 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5289 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5295 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5298 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5302 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5305 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5306 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5308 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5312 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5315 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5316 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5317 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5321 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5324 things if CDPATH is set.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5328 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5334 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5337 seems to make sense for the transition.
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5341 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5344 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5349 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5352 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5353 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5357 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5360 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5364 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5367 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5368 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5369 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5370 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5374 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5380 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5383 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5384 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5385 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5386 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5387 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5388 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5389 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5390 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5391 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5392 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5397 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5400 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5401 * README: mention doc/v2
5402 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5403 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5407 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5409 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5410 be using this script RSN.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5414 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5417 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5418 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5419 more than 1 init script.
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5423 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5426 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5430 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * Changed perl version detection.
5433 * Changed call to find.
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5437 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5440 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5442 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5447 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * Really include dh_installpam.
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5453 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5456 * Wrote man page for same.
5458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5460 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5462 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5463 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5464 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5469 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5476 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5479 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5480 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5481 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5482 x bit was being set!
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5486 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5489 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5490 well. (Closes: 38900)
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5494 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5497 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5498 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5502 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5508 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5510 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5515 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5517 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5521 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5523 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5524 help from Julian Gilbey.
5525 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5526 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5527 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5528 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5529 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5530 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5531 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5536 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5542 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5549 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5555 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5561 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5564 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5568 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5571 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5575 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5578 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5582 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5584 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5588 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5590 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5591 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5595 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5601 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5607 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5610 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5611 may be deleted. (#35845)
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5615 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * Various man page enhancements.
5618 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5623 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5625 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5626 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5627 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5631 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5634 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5635 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5636 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5638 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5639 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5644 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5646 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5650 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * Another very minor typo fix.
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5656 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * Very minor typo fix.
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5662 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5665 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5666 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5670 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5676 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5679 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5680 variables properly (#34850).
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5684 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5690 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5693 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5694 (automatically generated by build process).
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5698 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5700 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5704 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5706 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5707 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5708 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5710 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5714 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5716 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5717 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5721 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * README: minor typo fix.
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5727 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5730 leave it at that. :-)
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5734 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5740 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5746 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5749 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5750 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5751 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5755 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5758 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5762 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5764 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5765 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5769 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5772 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5773 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5774 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5775 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5779 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5781 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5782 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5783 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5784 Craig Small for spotting this.
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5788 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5791 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5792 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5796 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5802 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5805 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5809 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5811 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5812 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5813 working on the last version of debhelper.
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5817 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5820 being made. (#23255)
5822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5824 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5826 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5830 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5833 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5837 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5840 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5841 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5842 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5843 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5847 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5850 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5851 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5852 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5853 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5855 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5856 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5858 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5863 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5865 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5869 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5875 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5878 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5879 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5880 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5881 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5882 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5883 suidregister actually supports it.
5884 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5885 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5889 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5891 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5896 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5899 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5900 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5901 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5902 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5903 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5904 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5905 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5909 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5911 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5912 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5916 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5918 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5919 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5920 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5921 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5922 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5926 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5929 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5931 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5932 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5933 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5934 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5935 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5936 effect, either. (#30118)
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5940 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5946 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5949 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5950 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5954 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5956 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5960 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5962 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5963 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5964 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5965 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5966 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5970 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5973 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5974 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5978 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5980 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5984 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5987 packages, painlessly.
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5991 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5993 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5997 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5999 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6003 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6005 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6009 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * The perl conversion is complete.
6013 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6015 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6016 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6017 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6022 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6025 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6026 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6027 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6031 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6033 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6034 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6036 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6038 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6039 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6043 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6045 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6046 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6047 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6051 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6057 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6059 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6060 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6061 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6062 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6063 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6064 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6068 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6071 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6072 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6073 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6074 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6078 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6080 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6081 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6085 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6087 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6088 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6089 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6090 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6091 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6092 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6093 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6094 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6095 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6099 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6105 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6107 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6108 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6109 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6110 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6115 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6117 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6118 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6122 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6124 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6125 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6129 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6131 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6132 sections of shared libraries.
6133 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6134 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6135 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6136 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6137 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6138 things you don't want them to.
6139 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6140 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6144 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6146 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6147 shared libraries. (#26414)
6149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6151 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6153 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6154 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6155 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6156 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6160 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6162 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6164 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6166 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6167 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6168 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6169 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6170 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6174 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6176 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6177 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6181 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6184 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6185 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6190 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6192 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6193 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6197 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6199 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6200 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6201 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6202 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6203 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6204 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6206 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6207 remove debian/files properly.
6208 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6209 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6210 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6211 * Removed bogus menu file.
6213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6215 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6217 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6218 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6222 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6225 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6226 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6227 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6228 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6229 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6230 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6234 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6236 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6237 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6238 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6239 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6240 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6244 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6246 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6251 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6253 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6254 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6255 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6257 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6258 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6259 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6260 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6261 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6262 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6266 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6268 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6269 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6270 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6271 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6272 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6273 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6274 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6275 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6276 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6277 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6278 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6279 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6280 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6281 passed any switches.
6282 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6286 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6289 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6290 at all for a long while.
6291 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6292 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6293 large chunks in the process.
6294 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6295 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6296 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6301 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6303 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6304 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6306 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6311 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6313 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6314 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6315 that don't always have the same files in them.
6316 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6317 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6318 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6322 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6324 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6326 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6327 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6328 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6329 updating 27 man pages.
6330 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6331 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6332 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6333 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6334 programs act on. (#25247)
6336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6338 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6342 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6343 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6344 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6345 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6346 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6347 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6352 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6354 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6359 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6361 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6366 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6368 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6369 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6373 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6375 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6379 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6381 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6382 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6383 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6384 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6385 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6386 package by accident.
6387 * Is version 1.0 next?
6389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6391 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6393 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6394 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6395 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6399 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6401 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6402 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6403 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6404 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6405 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6406 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6408 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6413 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6415 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6416 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6417 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6421 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6424 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6428 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6430 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6431 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6432 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6437 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6443 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6445 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6446 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6447 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6452 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6454 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6458 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6460 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6461 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6462 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6463 past week. Thanks, guys!
6465 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6466 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6467 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6468 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6469 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6470 would do in the same situation.
6471 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6472 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6474 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6476 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6477 permissions changed.
6478 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6479 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6480 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6481 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6482 files are treated identically.
6483 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6484 * Minor man page fixes.
6485 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6486 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6487 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6491 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6493 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6494 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6495 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6496 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6497 use -X multiple times, too.
6498 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6499 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6503 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6505 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6506 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6507 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6511 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6513 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6514 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6518 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6520 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6521 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6522 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6523 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6524 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6525 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6526 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6527 shape if you're starting a new package.
6529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6531 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6533 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6534 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6538 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6540 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6541 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6542 because of missing symlinks.
6544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6546 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6548 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6552 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6554 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6555 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6556 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6557 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6558 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6559 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6561 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6562 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6566 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6568 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6569 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6570 to be changed after the fact :-)
6571 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6575 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6577 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6578 no version string after the -V.
6580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6582 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6584 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6585 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6590 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6592 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6593 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6597 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6599 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6600 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6601 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6602 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6603 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6604 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6605 I always welcome corrections!
6607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6609 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6611 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6615 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6617 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6618 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6619 * Documented this new switch.
6621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6623 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6625 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6626 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6627 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6628 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6629 no packages use the old behavior.
6631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6633 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6635 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6636 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6637 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6641 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6643 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6644 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6648 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6650 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6654 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6656 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6657 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6661 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6663 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6664 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6665 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6666 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6670 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6672 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6676 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6678 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6679 into the source package by accident.
6681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6683 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6685 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6686 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6687 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6688 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6689 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6690 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6691 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6696 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6698 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6700 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6701 inspired to implement some of it.
6702 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6706 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6708 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6709 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6713 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6715 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6716 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6717 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6721 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6723 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6724 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6725 have done.) (#17598)
6727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6729 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6731 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6735 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6737 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6741 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6743 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6744 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6748 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6750 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6751 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6752 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6756 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6758 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6759 argument processor in perl.
6760 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6761 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6762 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6763 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6767 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6769 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6770 type directories. (#16933)
6771 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6772 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6773 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6774 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6775 are supported. (#16935)
6776 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6781 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6783 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6784 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6788 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6790 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6792 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6793 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6794 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6795 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6796 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6797 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6801 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6803 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6804 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6805 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6807 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6808 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6809 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6810 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6811 a given package, or -i or -a.
6812 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6813 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6814 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6815 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6816 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6817 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6818 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6819 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6820 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6822 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6823 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6824 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6828 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6830 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6831 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6832 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6837 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6839 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6840 does not have a section.
6842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6844 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6846 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6847 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6848 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6849 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6853 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6855 * Fixed typo #16215.
6857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6859 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6861 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6862 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6863 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6864 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6865 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6866 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6871 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6873 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6874 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6875 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6876 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6881 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6883 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6887 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6889 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6893 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6895 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6896 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6897 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6898 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6899 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6900 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6901 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6905 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6907 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6911 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6913 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6914 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6918 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6920 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6921 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6922 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6923 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6927 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6929 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6930 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6934 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6936 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6940 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6942 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6943 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6947 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6949 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6950 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6954 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6956 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6960 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6962 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6963 postinst, postrm, etc.
6965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6967 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6969 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6973 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6975 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6976 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6977 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6978 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6979 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6980 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6984 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6986 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6987 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6988 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6992 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6994 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6995 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6999 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7001 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7002 installing package files into.
7003 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7008 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7010 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7012 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7016 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7018 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7022 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7024 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7025 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7029 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7031 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7032 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7033 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7034 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7035 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7039 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7041 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7042 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7043 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7044 multiple binary packages.
7045 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7046 should rebuild them with this version.
7047 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7051 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7053 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7054 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7058 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7060 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7061 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7065 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7067 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7068 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7069 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7070 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7071 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7072 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7073 debian/README.debian.
7074 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7075 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7076 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7077 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7078 in a few situations.)
7080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7082 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7084 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7088 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7090 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7094 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7096 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7097 * Fixed several man pages.
7099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7101 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7103 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7104 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7105 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7109 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7111 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7112 is ready for general use.
7113 * Added man pages for all commands.
7114 * Multiple binary package support.
7115 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7116 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7117 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7119 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7120 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7121 auto-installed as parameters.
7122 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7124 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7127 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7128 the package build directory it is to act on.
7129 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7130 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7131 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7135 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7137 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7138 ready to replace debstd.
7140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400