1 debhelper (5.0.13) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:48:08 -0500
7 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
14 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
16 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
20 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
23 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
27 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
30 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
35 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
39 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
40 installed. Closes: #342033
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
44 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
47 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
48 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
49 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
54 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
60 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
66 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
70 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
71 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
72 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
76 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
78 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
79 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
84 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
91 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
97 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
99 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
100 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
101 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
102 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
103 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
104 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
105 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
106 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
108 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
112 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
115 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
116 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
120 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
123 in standard man dirs.
124 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
128 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
134 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
136 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
137 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
142 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
149 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
156 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
159 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
160 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
164 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
166 * NMU with maintainer approval.
167 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
168 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
169 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
171 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
173 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
179 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
181 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
185 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
188 mode. Closes: #324161
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
192 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
195 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
196 behavior change. Closes: #249815
197 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
198 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
203 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
206 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
207 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
208 is necesary for sanity.
209 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
210 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
215 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
217 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
218 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
222 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
225 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
229 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
235 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
238 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
239 released, so use at your own risk.
240 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
241 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
243 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
244 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
245 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
246 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
247 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
248 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
249 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
250 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
251 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
252 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
253 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
254 including twice per config file line now..
255 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
256 and simplfy the rules file.
257 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
258 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
259 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
261 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
262 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
266 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
269 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
273 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
276 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
280 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
282 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
283 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
287 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
290 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
291 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
292 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
293 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
294 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
295 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
299 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
302 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
303 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
304 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
309 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
312 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
313 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
318 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
321 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
322 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
323 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
328 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
331 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
332 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
333 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
337 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
343 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
350 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
353 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
354 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
355 unknown. Closes: #282924
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
359 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
366 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Spanish man page updates.
369 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
374 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
380 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
383 * dh_desktop: reindent
384 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
385 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
389 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
395 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
397 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
401 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
403 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
407 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
410 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
411 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
415 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
421 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
423 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
427 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
434 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
437 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
441 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
444 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
445 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
446 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
447 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
448 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
449 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
451 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
452 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
453 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
454 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
455 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
456 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
457 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
458 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
459 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
460 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
461 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
462 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
463 in the others, and added a few new tests.
464 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
465 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
466 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
470 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
477 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
480 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
484 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
487 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
491 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
494 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
498 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
501 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
505 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
511 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
517 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
523 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
526 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
527 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
528 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
532 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
535 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
539 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
542 but occasionally right and necessary.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
546 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
549 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
550 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
551 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
552 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
553 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
557 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
560 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
562 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
563 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
564 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
565 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
566 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
567 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
568 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
569 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
570 postinst scripts for udebs.
571 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
575 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
578 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
580 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
581 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
585 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
591 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
598 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
605 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
607 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
608 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
612 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
615 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
619 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
621 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
622 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
625 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
626 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
630 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
636 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
639 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
643 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
646 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
647 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
648 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
650 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
652 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
653 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
654 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
658 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
661 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
666 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
669 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
670 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
671 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
676 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
682 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
688 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
691 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
692 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
693 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
694 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
695 associated -dbg packages.
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
699 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
702 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
706 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
709 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
713 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
716 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
720 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
723 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
728 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
730 * Typo. Closes: #207999
731 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
735 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
738 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
743 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
746 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
750 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
754 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
755 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
756 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
757 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
758 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
759 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
760 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
761 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
762 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
763 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
767 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
769 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
770 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
775 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
777 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
778 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
779 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
783 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
786 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
787 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
792 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
795 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
799 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
802 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
806 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
809 out section number. Closes: #204731
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
813 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
820 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
822 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
826 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
832 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Typo, Closes: #203907
835 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
836 removal. Closes: #204286
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
840 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
843 renaming. Closes: #203548
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
847 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
850 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
851 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
855 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
861 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
867 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
869 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
873 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
875 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
876 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
877 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
878 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
882 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
885 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
886 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
890 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
896 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
903 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
906 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
911 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
914 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
918 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
920 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
921 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
923 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
924 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
928 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
931 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
936 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
939 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
943 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
949 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
951 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
955 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
958 it break hard links (see #188663).
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
962 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
965 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
969 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
975 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
979 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
980 debconf-mergetemplates
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
984 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
987 pod2man. Closes: #184013
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
991 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
994 * Typo, Closes: #183267
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
998 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1001 * Update debhelper(1).
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1005 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1008 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1009 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1010 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1011 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1012 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1016 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1019 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1020 the shell. Closes: #178524
1021 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1025 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1028 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1032 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1035 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1039 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1042 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1043 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1044 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1045 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1050 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1053 files from installation.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1057 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1060 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1061 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1065 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1068 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1072 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1075 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1079 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1085 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1091 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1095 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1096 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1098 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1102 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1105 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1106 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1107 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1108 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1112 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1115 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1119 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1122 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1123 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1127 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1131 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1136 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1142 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1146 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1147 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1148 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1153 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1156 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1157 practice. Closes: #163303
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1161 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1167 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1174 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1177 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1179 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1180 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1181 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1182 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1183 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1187 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1190 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1195 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1201 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1208 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1211 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1216 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1222 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1228 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1234 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1241 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1244 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1245 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1246 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1247 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1252 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1258 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1265 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1268 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1269 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1273 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1276 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1277 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1278 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1279 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1280 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1284 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1287 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1289 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1294 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1297 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1301 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1304 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1305 right thing. Closes: #150644
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1309 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Stupid, evil typo.
1312 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1316 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1323 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1326 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1327 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1332 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1338 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1341 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1345 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1348 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1349 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1354 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1357 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1361 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1367 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1370 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1371 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1375 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1381 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Removing perl warning message.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1387 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1390 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1391 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1392 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1393 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1394 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1395 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1396 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1397 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1401 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1407 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1414 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1417 debconf-mergetemplate.
1418 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1419 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1423 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1426 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1427 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1428 dh_install, which ...
1429 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1430 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1431 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1432 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1433 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1434 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1435 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1436 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1437 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1438 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1439 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1440 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1441 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1442 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1443 other minor changes.
1444 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1445 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1446 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1447 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1448 course there's -X ..)
1449 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1450 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1451 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1453 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1454 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1455 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1456 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1457 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1462 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1468 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1471 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1475 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1481 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1487 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1493 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1499 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1502 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1503 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1504 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1505 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1507 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1508 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1512 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1518 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1521 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1525 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1528 upset. Closes: #131322
1530 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1532 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1535 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1536 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1537 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1538 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1539 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1540 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1541 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1542 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1543 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1544 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1545 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1546 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1547 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1548 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1549 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1551 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1555 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1558 - Better indenting of generated code.
1559 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1563 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1567 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1568 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1569 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1570 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1571 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1572 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1573 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1577 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1580 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1584 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1587 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1588 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1589 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1590 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1591 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1592 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1593 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1594 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1595 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1596 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1597 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1598 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1599 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1600 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1601 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1606 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1612 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1615 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1616 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1620 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1623 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1624 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1628 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1634 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1637 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1638 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1639 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1640 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1641 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1646 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1652 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1655 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1659 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1662 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1667 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1673 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1676 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1680 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1686 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1690 Also some indentation fixes.
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1694 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1697 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1698 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1699 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1700 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1701 Closes: #106514, #85520
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1705 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1711 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1717 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1723 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1729 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1735 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1738 change it in debhelper v4..
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1742 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1748 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1751 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1755 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1758 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1762 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1768 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1771 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1772 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1773 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1774 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1775 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1776 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1777 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1778 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1779 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1780 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1781 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1782 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1786 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1789 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1793 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1800 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1803 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1804 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1805 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1806 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1807 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1808 program those options go to. So, for example,
1809 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1810 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1811 something complex. Closes: #89311
1812 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1816 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1819 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1820 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1821 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1825 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1828 through loop. Closes: #98598
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1832 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Missing semi-colon.
1835 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1836 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1840 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1843 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1844 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1845 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1849 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1852 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1853 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1857 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1860 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1864 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1867 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1868 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1872 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1875 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1876 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1877 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1881 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1884 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1885 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1886 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1890 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1893 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1897 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1903 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1909 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1915 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1921 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1924 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1928 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1931 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1932 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1933 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1934 followed. Closes: #85483
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1938 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1940 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1941 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1942 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1946 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1949 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1950 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1951 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1952 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1953 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1954 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1955 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1956 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1957 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1958 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1959 Closes: #88464, #77743
1960 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1961 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1962 us to deal with that gracefully.
1963 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1965 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1966 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1967 a while, Closes: #51225
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1971 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1977 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1980 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1984 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1988 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1993 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1996 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1997 don't make packlist files.
1998 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1999 debhelper coding standards.
2000 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2001 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2005 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2008 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2012 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2015 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2016 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2017 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2018 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2019 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2020 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2021 but is mildly deprecated.
2022 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2023 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2024 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2025 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2026 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2027 switching to statoverrides..
2028 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2029 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2030 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2031 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2032 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2033 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2035 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2036 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2037 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2038 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2039 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2040 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2041 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2042 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2043 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2045 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2046 variable names, pod man pages).
2047 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2048 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2049 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2050 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2051 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2052 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2053 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2057 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2063 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2070 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2073 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2077 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2079 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2080 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2081 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2085 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2087 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2088 they were previously ignored.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2092 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2094 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2095 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2099 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2101 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2102 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2103 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2107 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2109 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2113 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2115 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2116 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2120 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2122 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2123 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2124 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2125 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2126 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2127 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2128 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2129 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2130 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2131 it is an obsolete program.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2135 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2137 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2141 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2145 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2147 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2151 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2153 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2155 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2157 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2161 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2167 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * typo: Closes, #78567
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2173 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2179 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2185 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2188 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2189 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2190 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2191 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2192 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2196 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2199 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2204 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2207 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2208 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2209 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2210 backwards-compatability.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2214 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2217 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2218 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2219 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2220 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2221 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2222 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2224 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2225 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2226 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2228 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2230 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2231 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2232 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2233 should now be raised to severity important..
2234 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2235 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2239 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2242 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2247 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2253 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2259 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2265 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2272 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2275 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2276 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2277 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2278 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2282 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2288 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2291 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2292 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2293 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2294 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2295 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2296 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2301 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2304 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2308 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2314 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2317 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2322 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2325 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2326 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2327 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2328 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2332 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2336 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2339 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2342 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2343 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2346 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2348 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2349 the TODO entry about it.
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2353 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2360 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2363 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2364 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2368 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2371 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2372 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2373 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2374 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2378 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2384 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2391 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2394 (this appears to be logal).
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2398 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2401 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2402 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2403 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2404 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2408 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2414 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2417 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2418 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2419 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2420 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2424 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2430 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2433 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2437 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2444 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2447 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2448 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2449 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2454 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2461 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2467 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2470 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2471 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2472 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2473 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2474 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2475 notice until v2 is complete.
2476 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2477 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2478 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2479 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2480 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2481 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2483 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2484 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2485 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2486 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2490 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2496 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2503 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2506 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2510 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2517 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2520 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2521 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2522 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2523 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2528 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2531 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2532 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2533 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2538 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2541 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2542 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2546 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2549 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2553 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2556 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2560 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2567 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2570 depend on the build and install targets.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2574 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2577 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2581 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2588 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2594 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2600 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2603 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2604 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2605 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2606 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2607 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2608 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2610 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2611 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2612 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2613 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2614 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2615 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2616 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2620 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2626 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2632 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2635 right place. Closes: #55065
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2639 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2646 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2649 * Copyright date updates.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2653 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2656 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2661 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2667 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2674 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2680 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2686 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2692 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2695 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2696 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2697 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2698 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2699 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2700 bits until all files have been registered.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2704 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_installmanpages:
2707 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2708 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2709 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2710 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2711 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2712 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2713 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2714 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2715 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2716 otherwise change the result at all.
2718 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2719 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2720 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2721 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2722 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2727 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2733 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2736 act on files that don't exist.
2737 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2738 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2739 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2741 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2742 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2743 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2744 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2748 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2754 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2760 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2763 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2767 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2770 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2772 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2773 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2774 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2778 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2781 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2782 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2783 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2784 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2785 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2786 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2787 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2789 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2791 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2795 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2802 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2808 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2814 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2817 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2821 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2827 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2833 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2836 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2837 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2838 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2839 I made some changes, though:
2840 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2841 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2842 that is a clear violation of policy.
2843 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2844 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2845 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2846 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2847 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2848 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2849 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2850 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2851 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2853 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2857 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2863 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2866 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2870 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2873 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2874 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2879 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2885 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2892 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2895 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2896 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2897 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2898 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2899 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2900 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2901 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2905 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2911 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2915 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2916 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2920 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2926 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2929 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2933 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2936 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2937 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2941 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2943 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2948 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2952 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2956 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2959 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2960 for the dependancies to be generated.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2964 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2967 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2971 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2974 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2975 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2976 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2981 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2984 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2985 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2989 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2995 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3001 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3004 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3008 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3014 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3017 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3018 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3019 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3020 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3021 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3022 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3023 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3024 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3025 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3026 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3027 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3028 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3032 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3035 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3036 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3038 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3039 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3040 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3041 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3042 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3043 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3045 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3046 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3050 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3053 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3057 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3064 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3067 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3072 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3075 for building debhelper.
3076 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3080 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3087 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3090 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3094 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3097 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3098 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3099 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3100 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3101 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3102 it's always available.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3106 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3109 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3110 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3111 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3115 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3118 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3119 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3123 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3129 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3132 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3136 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3142 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3145 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3146 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3147 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3151 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3154 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3159 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3162 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3163 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3165 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3166 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3170 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3176 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3182 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3185 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3189 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3192 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3193 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3195 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3199 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3202 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3203 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3204 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3208 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3211 things if CDPATH is set.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3215 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3221 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3224 seems to make sense for the transition.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3228 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3231 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3236 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3239 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3240 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3244 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3247 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3251 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3254 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3255 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3256 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3257 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3261 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3267 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3270 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3271 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3272 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3273 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3274 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3275 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3276 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3277 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3278 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3279 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3284 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3287 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3288 * README: mention doc/v2
3289 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3290 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3294 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3296 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3297 be using this script RSN.
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3301 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3304 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3305 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3306 more than 1 init script.
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3310 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3313 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3317 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * Changed perl version detection.
3320 * Changed call to find.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3324 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3327 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3329 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3334 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * Really include dh_installpam.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3340 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3343 * Wrote man page for same.
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3347 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3350 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3351 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3356 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3363 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3366 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3367 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3368 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3369 x bit was being set!
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3373 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3376 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3377 well. (Closes: 38900)
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3381 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3384 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3385 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3389 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3395 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3402 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3408 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3411 help from Julian Gilbey.
3412 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3413 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3414 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3415 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3416 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3417 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3418 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3423 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3429 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3436 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3442 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3448 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3451 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3455 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3458 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3462 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3465 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3469 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3475 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3478 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3482 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3488 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3494 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3497 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3498 may be deleted. (#35845)
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3502 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * Various man page enhancements.
3505 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3510 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3513 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3514 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3518 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3521 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3522 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3523 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3525 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3526 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3531 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3537 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * Another very minor typo fix.
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3543 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * Very minor typo fix.
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3549 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3552 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3553 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3557 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3563 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3566 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3567 variables properly (#34850).
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3571 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3577 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3580 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3581 (automatically generated by build process).
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3585 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3587 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3591 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3594 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3595 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3597 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3601 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3604 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3608 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * README: minor typo fix.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3614 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3617 leave it at that. :-)
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3621 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3627 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3633 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3636 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3637 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3638 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3642 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3645 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3649 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3652 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3656 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3659 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3660 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3661 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3662 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3666 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3669 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3670 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3671 Craig Small for spotting this.
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3675 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3678 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3679 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3683 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3689 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3692 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3696 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3698 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3699 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3700 working on the last version of debhelper.
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3704 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3707 being made. (#23255)
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3711 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3717 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3720 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3724 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3727 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3728 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3729 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3730 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3734 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3737 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3738 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3739 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3740 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3742 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3743 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3745 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3750 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3756 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3762 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3765 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3766 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3767 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3768 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3769 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3770 suidregister actually supports it.
3771 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3772 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3776 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3783 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3786 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3787 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3788 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3789 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3790 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3791 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3792 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3796 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3798 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3799 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3803 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3806 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3807 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3808 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3809 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3813 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3816 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3818 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3819 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3820 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3821 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3822 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3823 effect, either. (#30118)
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3827 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3833 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3836 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3837 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3841 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3847 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3850 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3851 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3852 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3853 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3857 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3860 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3861 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3865 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3871 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3874 packages, painlessly.
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3878 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3884 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3890 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3896 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * The perl conversion is complete.
3900 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3902 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3903 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3904 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3909 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3912 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3913 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3914 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3918 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3921 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3923 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3925 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3926 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3930 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3933 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3934 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3938 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3944 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3947 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3948 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3949 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3950 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3951 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3955 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3958 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3959 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3960 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3961 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3965 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3968 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3972 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3975 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3976 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3977 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3978 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3979 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3980 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3981 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3982 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3986 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3992 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3995 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3996 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3997 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4002 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4005 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4009 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4012 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4016 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4019 sections of shared libraries.
4020 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4021 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4022 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4023 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4024 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4025 things you don't want them to.
4026 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4027 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4031 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4034 shared libraries. (#26414)
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4038 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4040 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4041 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4042 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4043 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4047 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4051 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4053 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4054 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4055 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4056 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4057 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4061 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4064 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4068 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4071 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4072 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4077 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4080 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4084 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4087 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4088 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4089 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4090 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4091 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4093 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4094 remove debian/files properly.
4095 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4096 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4097 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4098 * Removed bogus menu file.
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4102 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4105 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4109 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4112 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4113 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4114 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4115 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4116 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4117 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4121 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4124 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4125 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4126 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4127 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4131 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4138 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4141 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4142 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4144 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4145 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4146 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4147 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4148 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4149 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4153 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4156 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4157 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4158 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4159 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4160 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4161 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4162 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4163 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4164 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4165 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4166 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4167 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4168 passed any switches.
4169 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4173 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4176 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4177 at all for a long while.
4178 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4179 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4180 large chunks in the process.
4181 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4182 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4183 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4188 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4191 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4193 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4198 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4201 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4202 that don't always have the same files in them.
4203 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4204 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4205 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4209 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4213 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4214 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4215 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4216 updating 27 man pages.
4217 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4218 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4219 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4220 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4221 programs act on. (#25247)
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4225 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4229 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4230 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4231 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4232 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4233 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4234 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4239 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4246 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4253 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4256 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4260 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4266 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4269 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4270 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4271 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4272 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4273 package by accident.
4274 * Is version 1.0 next?
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4278 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4281 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4282 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4286 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4289 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4290 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4291 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4292 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4293 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4295 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4300 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4303 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4304 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4308 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4311 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4315 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4318 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4319 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4324 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4330 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4333 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4334 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4339 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4345 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4348 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4349 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4350 past week. Thanks, guys!
4352 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4353 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4354 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4355 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4356 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4357 would do in the same situation.
4358 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4359 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4361 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4363 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4364 permissions changed.
4365 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4366 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4367 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4368 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4369 files are treated identically.
4370 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4371 * Minor man page fixes.
4372 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4373 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4374 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4378 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4381 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4382 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4383 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4384 use -X multiple times, too.
4385 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4386 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4390 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4393 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4394 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4398 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4401 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4405 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4408 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4409 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4410 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4411 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4412 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4413 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4414 shape if you're starting a new package.
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4418 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4421 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4425 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4428 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4429 because of missing symlinks.
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4433 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4439 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4442 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4443 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4444 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4445 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4446 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4448 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4449 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4453 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4455 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4456 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4457 to be changed after the fact :-)
4458 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4462 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4465 no version string after the -V.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4469 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4471 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4472 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4477 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4480 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4484 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4487 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4488 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4489 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4490 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4491 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4492 I always welcome corrections!
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4496 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4502 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4505 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4506 * Documented this new switch.
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4510 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4513 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4514 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4515 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4516 no packages use the old behavior.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4520 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4523 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4524 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4528 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4531 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4535 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4541 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4544 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4548 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4551 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4552 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4553 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4557 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4563 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4566 into the source package by accident.
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4570 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4573 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4574 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4575 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4576 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4577 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4578 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4583 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4587 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4588 inspired to implement some of it.
4589 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4593 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4596 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4600 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4603 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4604 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4608 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4611 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4612 have done.) (#17598)
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4616 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4622 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4628 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4631 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4635 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4638 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4639 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4643 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4646 argument processor in perl.
4647 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4648 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4649 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4650 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4654 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4656 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4657 type directories. (#16933)
4658 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4659 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4660 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4661 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4662 are supported. (#16935)
4663 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4668 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4671 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4675 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4679 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4680 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4681 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4682 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4683 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4684 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4688 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4691 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4692 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4694 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4695 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4696 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4697 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4698 a given package, or -i or -a.
4699 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4700 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4701 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4702 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4703 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4704 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4705 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4706 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4707 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4709 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4710 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4711 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4715 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4718 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4719 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4724 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4727 does not have a section.
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4731 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4734 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4735 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4736 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4740 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * Fixed typo #16215.
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4746 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4749 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4750 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4751 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4752 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4753 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4758 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4761 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4762 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4763 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4768 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4774 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4780 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4783 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4784 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4785 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4786 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4787 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4788 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4792 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4798 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4801 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4805 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4808 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4809 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4810 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4814 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4817 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4821 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4827 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4829 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4830 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4834 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4837 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4841 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4847 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4850 postinst, postrm, etc.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4854 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4860 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4863 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4864 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4865 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4866 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4867 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4871 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4874 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4875 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4879 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4882 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4886 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4889 installing package files into.
4890 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4895 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4899 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4903 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4909 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4912 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4916 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4919 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4920 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4921 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4922 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4926 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4928 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4929 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4930 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4931 multiple binary packages.
4932 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4933 should rebuild them with this version.
4934 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4938 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4941 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4945 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4948 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4952 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4955 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4956 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4957 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4958 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4959 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4960 debian/README.debian.
4961 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4962 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4963 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4964 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4965 in a few situations.)
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4969 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4975 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4981 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4984 * Fixed several man pages.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4988 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4991 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4992 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4996 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4999 is ready for general use.
5000 * Added man pages for all commands.
5001 * Multiple binary package support.
5002 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5003 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5004 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5006 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5007 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5008 auto-installed as parameters.
5009 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5011 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5014 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5015 the package build directory it is to act on.
5016 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5017 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5018 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5022 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5024 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5025 ready to replace debstd.
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400