1 debhelper (5.0.51) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
4 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:10:54 -0400
8 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
11 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
12 * Update urls to web page.
13 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
15 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
16 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
20 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
23 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
24 - typo in alternatives call
25 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
27 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
28 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
32 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
35 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
40 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
46 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
52 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
55 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
57 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
58 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
59 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
60 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
61 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
62 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
63 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
64 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
65 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
66 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
67 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
71 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
74 package install. Closes: #415717
75 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
76 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
77 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
78 script and then remove the python files.
79 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
80 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
81 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
82 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
83 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
84 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
85 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
86 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
87 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
88 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
89 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
90 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
91 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
95 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Correct typo in french translation
101 * Typo. Closes: #400571
102 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
104 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
106 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
107 Closes: #406921, #381940
108 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
110 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
111 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
112 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
113 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
114 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
115 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
116 specified). Closes: #381851
117 * Misc minor changes.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
121 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
128 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
129 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
133 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
136 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
139 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
140 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
143 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
144 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
146 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
147 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
148 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
149 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
153 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
156 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
159 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
163 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
169 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
175 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
176 a difficult situation.
177 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
178 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
179 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
180 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
181 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
182 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
183 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
184 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
185 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
186 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
190 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Non-maintainer upload.
193 * Update of dh_python
194 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
195 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
197 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
198 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
199 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
200 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
201 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
203 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
205 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Non-maintainer upload.
208 * Update of dh_python
209 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
210 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
211 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
212 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
213 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
214 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
215 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
216 specific python version. Closes: #373853
217 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
218 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
220 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
221 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
222 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
223 the not too-distant future).
224 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
225 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
226 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
227 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
228 thus made the build fail.
230 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
232 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Non-maintainer upload.
235 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
237 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
239 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
242 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
243 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
244 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
245 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
246 package. Closes: #301424
247 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
248 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
249 fonts). Closes: #372686
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
253 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
259 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
260 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
261 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
262 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
263 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
264 above, but already depends on that.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
268 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
271 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
272 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
273 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
274 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
275 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
279 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
285 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
291 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
292 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
296 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
299 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
303 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
307 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
308 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
309 new version (0.24.1).
310 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
311 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
314 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
315 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
316 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
317 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
318 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
319 new directory on their own.
320 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
321 * Fix broken directory removal code.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
325 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
328 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
329 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
330 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
331 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
335 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
338 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
339 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
340 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
341 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
342 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
346 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
352 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Typo. Closes: #358904
356 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
357 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
361 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
362 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
366 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
368 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
369 || exit 0 instead of the intended
371 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
372 ignored. Closes: #337664
374 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
379 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
385 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
390 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
391 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
392 the dh_installdebconf manpage
393 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
394 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
395 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
396 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
400 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
403 version. Closes: #350607
404 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
405 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
406 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
407 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
411 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
414 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
415 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
416 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
420 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
422 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
427 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Minor bug fix from last release.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
433 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
436 language guessing. Closes: #193221
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
440 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
443 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
444 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
445 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
446 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
447 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
448 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
452 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
455 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
456 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
461 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
464 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
468 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
471 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
475 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
478 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
479 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
480 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
481 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
482 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
483 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
487 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
490 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
491 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
492 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
493 link. Closes: #346405
494 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
497 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
498 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
499 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
500 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
501 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
502 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
506 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
508 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
513 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
515 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
519 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
522 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
526 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
529 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
534 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
538 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
539 installed. Closes: #342033
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
543 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
546 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
547 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
548 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
553 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
559 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
565 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
569 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
570 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
571 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
575 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
578 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
583 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
590 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
596 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
598 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
599 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
600 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
601 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
602 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
603 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
604 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
605 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
607 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
611 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
614 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
615 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
619 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
622 in standard man dirs.
623 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
627 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
633 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
636 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
641 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
648 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
655 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
658 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
659 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
663 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
665 * NMU with maintainer approval.
666 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
667 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
668 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
670 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
672 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
678 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
680 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
684 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
687 mode. Closes: #324161
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
691 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
694 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
695 behavior change. Closes: #249815
696 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
697 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
702 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
705 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
706 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
707 is necesary for sanity.
708 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
709 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
714 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
716 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
717 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
721 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
724 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
728 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
730 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
734 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
737 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
738 released, so use at your own risk.
739 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
740 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
742 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
743 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
744 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
745 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
746 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
747 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
748 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
749 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
750 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
751 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
752 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
753 including twice per config file line now..
754 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
755 and simplfy the rules file.
756 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
757 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
758 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
760 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
761 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
765 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
768 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
772 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
775 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
779 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
781 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
782 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
786 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
789 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
790 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
791 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
792 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
793 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
794 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
798 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
800 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
801 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
802 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
803 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
808 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
811 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
812 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
817 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
820 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
821 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
822 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
827 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
830 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
831 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
832 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
836 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
842 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
849 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
851 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
852 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
853 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
854 unknown. Closes: #282924
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
858 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
865 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Spanish man page updates.
868 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
873 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
879 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
882 * dh_desktop: reindent
883 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
884 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
888 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
894 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
896 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
900 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
902 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
906 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
909 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
910 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
914 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
916 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
920 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
926 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
933 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
936 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
940 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
943 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
944 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
945 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
946 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
947 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
948 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
950 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
951 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
952 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
953 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
954 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
955 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
956 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
957 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
958 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
959 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
960 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
961 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
962 in the others, and added a few new tests.
963 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
964 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
965 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
969 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
971 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
976 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
978 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
979 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
983 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
986 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
990 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
993 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
997 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1000 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1004 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1010 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1016 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1022 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1025 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1026 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1027 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1031 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1034 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1038 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1041 but occasionally right and necessary.
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1045 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1048 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1049 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1050 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1051 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1052 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1056 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1059 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1061 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1062 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1063 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1064 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1065 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1066 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1067 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1068 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1069 postinst scripts for udebs.
1070 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1074 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1077 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1079 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1080 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1084 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1090 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1097 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1104 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1107 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1111 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1114 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1118 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1121 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1124 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1125 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1129 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1135 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1138 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1142 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1145 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1146 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1147 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1149 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1151 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1152 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1153 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1157 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1160 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1165 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1168 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1169 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1170 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1175 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1181 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1187 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1190 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1191 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1192 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1193 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1194 associated -dbg packages.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1198 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1201 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1205 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1208 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1212 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1215 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1219 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1222 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1227 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1230 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1234 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1237 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1242 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1245 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1249 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1253 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1254 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1255 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1256 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1257 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1258 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1259 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1260 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1261 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1262 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1266 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1269 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1274 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1277 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1278 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1282 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1285 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1286 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1291 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1294 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1298 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1301 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1305 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1308 out section number. Closes: #204731
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1312 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1319 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1325 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1331 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1334 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1335 removal. Closes: #204286
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1339 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1342 renaming. Closes: #203548
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1346 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1349 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1350 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1354 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1360 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1366 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1372 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1375 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1376 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1377 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1381 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1384 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1385 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1389 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1395 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1402 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1405 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1410 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1413 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1417 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1420 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1422 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1423 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1427 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1430 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1435 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1438 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1442 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1448 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1450 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1454 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1457 it break hard links (see #188663).
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1461 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1464 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1468 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1474 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1478 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1479 debconf-mergetemplates
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1483 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1486 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1490 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1493 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1497 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1500 * Update debhelper(1).
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1504 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1507 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1508 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1509 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1510 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1511 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1515 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1518 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1519 the shell. Closes: #178524
1520 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1524 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1527 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1531 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1534 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1538 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1541 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1542 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1543 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1544 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1549 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1552 files from installation.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1556 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1559 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1560 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1564 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1567 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1571 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1574 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1578 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1584 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1590 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1594 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1595 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1597 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1601 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1604 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1605 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1606 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1607 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1611 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1614 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1618 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1621 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1622 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1626 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1630 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1635 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1641 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1645 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1646 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1647 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1652 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1655 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1656 practice. Closes: #163303
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1660 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1666 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1673 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1676 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1678 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1679 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1680 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1681 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1682 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1686 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1689 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1694 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1700 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1707 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1710 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1715 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1721 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1727 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1733 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1740 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1743 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1744 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1745 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1746 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1751 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1757 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1764 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1767 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1768 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1772 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1775 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1776 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1777 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1778 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1779 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1783 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1786 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1788 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1793 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1796 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1800 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1803 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1804 right thing. Closes: #150644
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1808 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Stupid, evil typo.
1811 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1815 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1822 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1825 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1826 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1831 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1837 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1840 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1844 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1847 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1848 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1853 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1856 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1860 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1866 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1869 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1870 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1874 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1880 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Removing perl warning message.
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1886 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1889 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1890 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1891 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1892 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1893 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1894 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1895 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1896 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1900 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1906 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1913 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1916 debconf-mergetemplate.
1917 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1918 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1925 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1926 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1927 dh_install, which ...
1928 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1929 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1930 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1931 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1932 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1933 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1934 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1935 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1936 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1937 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1938 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1939 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1940 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1941 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1942 other minor changes.
1943 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1944 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1945 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1946 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1947 course there's -X ..)
1948 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1949 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1950 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1952 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1953 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1954 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1955 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1956 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1961 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1967 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1970 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1974 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1980 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1986 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1992 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1998 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2001 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2002 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2003 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2004 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2006 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2007 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2011 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2017 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2020 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2024 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2027 upset. Closes: #131322
2029 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2031 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2034 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2035 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2036 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2037 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2038 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2039 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2040 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2041 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2042 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2043 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2044 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2045 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2046 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2047 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2048 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2050 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2054 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2057 - Better indenting of generated code.
2058 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2062 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2066 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2067 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2068 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2069 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2070 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2071 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2072 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2076 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2079 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2083 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2086 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2087 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2088 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2089 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2090 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2091 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2092 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2093 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2094 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2095 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2096 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2097 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2098 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2099 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2100 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2105 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2111 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2114 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2115 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2119 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2122 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2123 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2127 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2133 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2136 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2137 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2138 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2139 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2140 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2145 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2151 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2154 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2158 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2161 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2166 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2172 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2175 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2179 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2185 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2189 Also some indentation fixes.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2193 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2196 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2197 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2198 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2199 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2200 Closes: #106514, #85520
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2204 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2210 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2216 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2222 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2228 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2234 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2237 change it in debhelper v4..
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2241 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2247 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2250 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2254 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2257 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2261 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2267 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2270 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2271 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2272 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2273 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2274 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2275 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2276 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2277 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2278 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2279 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2280 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2281 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2285 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2288 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2292 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2299 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2302 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2303 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2304 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2305 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2306 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2307 program those options go to. So, for example,
2308 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2309 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2310 something complex. Closes: #89311
2311 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2315 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2318 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2319 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2320 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2324 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2327 through loop. Closes: #98598
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2331 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Missing semi-colon.
2334 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2335 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2339 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2342 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2343 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2344 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2348 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2351 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2352 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2356 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2359 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2363 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2366 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2367 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2371 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2374 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2375 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2376 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2380 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2383 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2384 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2385 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2389 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2392 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2396 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2402 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2408 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2414 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2420 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2423 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2427 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2430 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2431 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2432 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2433 followed. Closes: #85483
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2437 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2439 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2440 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2441 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2445 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2448 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2449 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2450 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2451 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2452 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2453 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2454 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2455 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2456 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2457 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2458 Closes: #88464, #77743
2459 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2460 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2461 us to deal with that gracefully.
2462 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2464 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2465 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2466 a while, Closes: #51225
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2470 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2476 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2479 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2483 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2487 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2492 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2495 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2496 don't make packlist files.
2497 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2498 debhelper coding standards.
2499 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2500 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2504 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2507 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2511 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2514 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2515 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2516 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2517 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2518 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2519 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2520 but is mildly deprecated.
2521 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2522 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2523 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2524 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2525 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2526 switching to statoverrides..
2527 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2528 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2529 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2530 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2531 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2532 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2534 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2535 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2536 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2537 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2538 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2539 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2540 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2541 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2542 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2544 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2545 variable names, pod man pages).
2546 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2547 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2548 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2549 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2550 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2551 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2552 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2556 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2562 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2569 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2572 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2576 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2578 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2579 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2580 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2584 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2586 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2587 they were previously ignored.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2591 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2593 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2594 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2598 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2600 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2601 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2602 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2606 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2608 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2612 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2614 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2615 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2619 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2621 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2622 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2623 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2624 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2625 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2626 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2627 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2628 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2629 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2630 it is an obsolete program.
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2634 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2636 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2640 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2644 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2646 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2650 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2652 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2654 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2656 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2660 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2666 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * typo: Closes, #78567
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2672 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2678 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2684 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2687 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2688 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2689 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2690 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2691 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2695 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2698 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2703 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2706 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2707 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2708 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2709 backwards-compatability.
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2713 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2716 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2717 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2718 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2719 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2720 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2721 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2723 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2724 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2725 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2727 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2729 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2730 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2731 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2732 should now be raised to severity important..
2733 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2734 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2738 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2741 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2746 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2752 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2758 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2764 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2771 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2774 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2775 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2776 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2777 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2781 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2787 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2790 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2791 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2792 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2793 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2794 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2795 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2800 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2803 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2807 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2813 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2816 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2821 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2824 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2825 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2826 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2827 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2831 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2835 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2838 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2841 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2842 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2845 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2847 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2848 the TODO entry about it.
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2852 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2859 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2862 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2863 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2867 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2870 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2871 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2872 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2873 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2877 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2883 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2890 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2893 (this appears to be logal).
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2897 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2900 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2901 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2902 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2903 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2907 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2913 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2916 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2917 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2918 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2919 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2923 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2929 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2932 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2936 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2943 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2946 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2947 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2948 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2953 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2960 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2966 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2969 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2970 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2971 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2972 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2973 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2974 notice until v2 is complete.
2975 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2976 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2977 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2978 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2979 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2980 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2982 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2983 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2984 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2985 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2989 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2995 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3002 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3005 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3009 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3016 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3019 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3020 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3021 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3022 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3027 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3030 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3031 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3032 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3037 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3040 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3041 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3045 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3048 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3052 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3055 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3059 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3066 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3069 depend on the build and install targets.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3073 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3076 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3080 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3087 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3093 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3099 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3102 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3103 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3104 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3105 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3106 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3107 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3109 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3110 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3111 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3112 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3113 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3114 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3115 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3119 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3125 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3131 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3134 right place. Closes: #55065
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3138 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3145 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3148 * Copyright date updates.
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3152 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3155 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3160 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3166 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3173 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3179 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3185 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3191 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3194 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3195 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3196 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3197 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3198 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3199 bits until all files have been registered.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3203 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * dh_installmanpages:
3206 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3207 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3208 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3209 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3210 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3211 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3212 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3213 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3214 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3215 otherwise change the result at all.
3217 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3218 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3219 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3220 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3221 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3226 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3232 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3235 act on files that don't exist.
3236 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3237 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3238 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3240 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3241 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3242 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3243 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3247 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3253 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3259 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3262 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3266 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3269 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3271 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3272 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3273 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3277 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3280 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3281 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3282 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3283 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3284 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3285 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3286 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3288 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3290 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3294 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3301 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3307 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3313 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3316 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3320 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3326 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3332 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3335 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3336 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3337 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3338 I made some changes, though:
3339 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3340 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3341 that is a clear violation of policy.
3342 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3343 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3344 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3345 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3346 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3347 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3348 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3349 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3350 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3352 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3356 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3362 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3365 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3369 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3372 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3373 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3378 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3384 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3391 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3394 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3395 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3396 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3397 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3398 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3399 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3400 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3404 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3410 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3414 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3415 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3419 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3425 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3428 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3432 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3435 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3436 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3440 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3442 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3447 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3451 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3455 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3458 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3459 for the dependancies to be generated.
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3463 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3466 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3470 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3473 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3474 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3475 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3480 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3483 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3484 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3488 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3494 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3500 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3503 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3507 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3513 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3516 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3517 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3518 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3519 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3520 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3521 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3522 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3523 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3524 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3525 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3526 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3527 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3531 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3534 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3535 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3537 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3538 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3539 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3540 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3541 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3542 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3544 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3545 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3549 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3552 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3556 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3563 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3566 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3571 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3574 for building debhelper.
3575 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3579 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3586 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3589 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3593 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3596 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3597 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3598 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3599 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3600 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3601 it's always available.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3605 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3608 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3609 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3610 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3614 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3617 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3618 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3622 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3628 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3631 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3635 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3641 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3644 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3645 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3646 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3650 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3653 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3658 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3661 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3662 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3664 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3665 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3669 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3675 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3681 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3684 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3688 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3691 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3692 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3694 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3698 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3701 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3702 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3703 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3707 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3710 things if CDPATH is set.
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3714 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3720 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3723 seems to make sense for the transition.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3727 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3730 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3735 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3738 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3739 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3743 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3746 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3750 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3753 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3754 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3755 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3756 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3760 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3766 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3769 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3770 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3771 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3772 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3773 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3774 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3775 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3776 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3777 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3778 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3783 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3786 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3787 * README: mention doc/v2
3788 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3789 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3793 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3795 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3796 be using this script RSN.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3800 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3803 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3804 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3805 more than 1 init script.
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3809 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3812 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3816 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * Changed perl version detection.
3819 * Changed call to find.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3823 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3826 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3828 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3833 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * Really include dh_installpam.
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3839 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3842 * Wrote man page for same.
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3846 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3849 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3850 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3855 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3862 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3865 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3866 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3867 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3868 x bit was being set!
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3872 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3875 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3876 well. (Closes: 38900)
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3880 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3883 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3884 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3888 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3894 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3901 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3907 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3910 help from Julian Gilbey.
3911 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3912 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3913 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3914 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3915 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3916 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3917 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3922 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3928 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3935 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3941 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3947 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3950 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3954 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3957 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3961 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3964 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3968 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3974 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3977 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3981 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3987 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3993 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3996 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3997 may be deleted. (#35845)
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4001 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Various man page enhancements.
4004 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4009 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4012 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4013 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4017 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4020 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4021 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4022 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4024 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4025 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4030 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4036 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * Another very minor typo fix.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4042 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * Very minor typo fix.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4048 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4051 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4052 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4056 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4062 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4065 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4066 variables properly (#34850).
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4070 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4076 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4079 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4080 (automatically generated by build process).
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4084 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4086 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4090 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4093 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4094 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4096 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4100 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4103 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4107 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * README: minor typo fix.
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4113 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4116 leave it at that. :-)
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4120 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4126 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4132 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4135 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4136 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4137 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4141 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4144 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4148 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4151 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4155 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4158 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4159 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4160 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4161 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4165 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4168 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4169 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4170 Craig Small for spotting this.
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4174 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4177 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4178 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4182 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4188 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4191 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4195 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4197 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4198 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4199 working on the last version of debhelper.
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4203 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4206 being made. (#23255)
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4210 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4216 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4219 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4223 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4226 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4227 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4228 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4229 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4233 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4236 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4237 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4238 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4239 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4241 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4242 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4244 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4249 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4255 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4261 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4264 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4265 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4266 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4267 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4268 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4269 suidregister actually supports it.
4270 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4271 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4275 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4282 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4285 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4286 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4287 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4288 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4289 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4290 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4291 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4295 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4297 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4298 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4302 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4305 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4306 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4307 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4308 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4312 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4315 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4317 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4318 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4319 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4320 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4321 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4322 effect, either. (#30118)
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4326 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4332 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4335 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4336 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4340 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4346 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4349 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4350 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4351 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4352 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4356 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4359 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4360 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4364 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4370 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4373 packages, painlessly.
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4377 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4383 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4389 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4395 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * The perl conversion is complete.
4399 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4401 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4402 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4403 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4408 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4411 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4412 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4413 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4417 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4420 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4422 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4424 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4425 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4429 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4432 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4433 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4437 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4443 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4445 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4446 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4447 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4448 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4449 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4450 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4454 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4457 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4458 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4459 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4460 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4464 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4467 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4471 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4474 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4475 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4476 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4477 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4478 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4479 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4480 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4481 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4485 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4491 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4494 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4495 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4496 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4501 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4504 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4508 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4511 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4515 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4518 sections of shared libraries.
4519 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4520 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4521 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4522 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4523 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4524 things you don't want them to.
4525 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4526 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4530 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4533 shared libraries. (#26414)
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4537 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4539 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4540 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4541 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4542 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4546 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4550 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4552 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4553 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4554 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4555 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4556 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4560 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4563 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4567 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4570 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4571 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4576 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4579 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4583 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4586 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4587 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4588 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4589 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4590 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4592 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4593 remove debian/files properly.
4594 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4595 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4596 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4597 * Removed bogus menu file.
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4601 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4604 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4608 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4611 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4612 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4613 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4614 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4615 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4616 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4620 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4623 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4624 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4625 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4626 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4630 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4637 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4640 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4641 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4643 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4644 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4645 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4646 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4647 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4648 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4652 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4655 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4656 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4657 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4658 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4659 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4660 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4661 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4662 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4663 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4664 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4665 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4666 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4667 passed any switches.
4668 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4672 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4675 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4676 at all for a long while.
4677 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4678 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4679 large chunks in the process.
4680 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4681 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4682 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4687 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4690 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4692 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4697 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4700 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4701 that don't always have the same files in them.
4702 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4703 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4704 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4708 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4712 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4713 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4714 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4715 updating 27 man pages.
4716 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4717 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4718 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4719 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4720 programs act on. (#25247)
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4724 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4728 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4729 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4730 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4731 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4732 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4733 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4738 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4745 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4752 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4755 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4759 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4765 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4768 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4769 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4770 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4771 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4772 package by accident.
4773 * Is version 1.0 next?
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4777 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4780 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4781 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4785 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4788 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4789 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4790 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4791 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4792 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4794 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4799 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4802 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4803 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4807 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4810 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4814 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4817 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4818 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4823 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4829 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4832 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4833 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4838 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4844 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4847 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4848 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4849 past week. Thanks, guys!
4851 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4852 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4853 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4854 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4855 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4856 would do in the same situation.
4857 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4858 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4860 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4862 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4863 permissions changed.
4864 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4865 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4866 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4867 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4868 files are treated identically.
4869 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4870 * Minor man page fixes.
4871 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4872 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4873 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4877 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4880 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4881 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4882 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4883 use -X multiple times, too.
4884 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4885 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4889 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4892 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4893 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4897 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4900 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4904 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4907 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4908 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4909 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4910 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4911 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4912 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4913 shape if you're starting a new package.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4917 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4920 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4924 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4927 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4928 because of missing symlinks.
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4932 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4938 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4941 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4942 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4943 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4944 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4945 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4947 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4948 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4952 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4954 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4955 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4956 to be changed after the fact :-)
4957 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4961 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4963 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4964 no version string after the -V.
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4968 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4970 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4971 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4976 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4979 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4983 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4986 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4987 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4988 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4989 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4990 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4991 I always welcome corrections!
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4995 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5001 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5004 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5005 * Documented this new switch.
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5009 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5012 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5013 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5014 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5015 no packages use the old behavior.
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5019 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5022 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5023 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5027 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5030 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5034 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5040 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5043 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5047 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5050 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5051 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5052 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5056 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5062 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5065 into the source package by accident.
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5069 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5072 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5073 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5074 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5075 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5076 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5077 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5082 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5086 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5087 inspired to implement some of it.
5088 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5092 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5095 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5099 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5102 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5103 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5107 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5110 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5111 have done.) (#17598)
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5115 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5121 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5127 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5130 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5134 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5137 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5138 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5142 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5145 argument processor in perl.
5146 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5147 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5148 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5149 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5153 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5155 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5156 type directories. (#16933)
5157 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5158 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5159 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5160 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5161 are supported. (#16935)
5162 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5167 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5170 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5174 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5178 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5179 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5180 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5181 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5182 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5183 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5187 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5190 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5191 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5193 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5194 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5195 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5196 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5197 a given package, or -i or -a.
5198 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5199 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5200 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5201 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5202 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5203 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5204 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5205 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5206 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5208 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5209 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5210 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5214 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5217 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5218 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5223 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5226 does not have a section.
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5230 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5233 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5234 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5235 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5239 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * Fixed typo #16215.
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5245 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5248 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5249 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5250 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5251 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5252 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5257 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5260 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5261 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5262 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5267 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5273 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5279 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5282 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5283 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5284 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5285 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5286 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5287 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5291 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5297 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5300 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5304 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5306 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5307 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5308 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5309 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5313 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5316 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5320 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5326 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5329 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5333 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5335 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5336 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5340 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5346 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5349 postinst, postrm, etc.
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5353 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5359 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5362 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5363 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5364 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5365 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5366 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5370 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5373 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5374 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5378 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5381 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5385 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5388 installing package files into.
5389 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5394 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5398 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5402 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5404 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5408 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5411 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5415 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5418 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5419 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5420 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5421 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5425 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5427 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5428 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5429 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5430 multiple binary packages.
5431 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5432 should rebuild them with this version.
5433 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5437 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5440 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5444 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5447 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5451 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5454 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5455 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5456 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5457 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5458 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5459 debian/README.debian.
5460 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5461 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5462 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5463 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5464 in a few situations.)
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5468 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5474 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5480 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5483 * Fixed several man pages.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5487 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5490 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5491 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5495 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5498 is ready for general use.
5499 * Added man pages for all commands.
5500 * Multiple binary package support.
5501 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5502 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5503 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5505 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5506 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5507 auto-installed as parameters.
5508 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5510 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5513 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5514 the package build directory it is to act on.
5515 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5516 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5517 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5521 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5523 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5524 ready to replace debstd.
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400