1 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
5 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
6 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
7 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
11 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
13 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
14 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
15 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
16 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
20 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
22 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
23 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
24 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
26 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
27 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
28 by triggers). Closes: #521181
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
32 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
36 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
40 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
43 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
44 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
45 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
46 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
51 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
57 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
60 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
61 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
62 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
63 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
64 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
66 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
67 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
68 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
69 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
70 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
71 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
75 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
78 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
79 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
80 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
81 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
82 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
84 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
88 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
90 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
94 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
96 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
97 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
98 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
99 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
100 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
101 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
102 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
103 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
104 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
105 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
106 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
110 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
112 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
113 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
115 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
116 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
117 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
118 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
120 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
121 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
125 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
127 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
128 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
129 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
130 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
131 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
132 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
133 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
135 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
136 that uses them. Affected options are:
137 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
138 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
139 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
140 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
141 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
142 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
143 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
144 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
145 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
146 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
147 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
148 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
152 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
159 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
165 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
167 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
168 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
170 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
171 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
172 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
173 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
174 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
176 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
178 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
179 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
180 rules (see bug #509756).
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
184 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
190 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
191 * Typo. Closes: #493062
192 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
193 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
197 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
200 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
201 empty files. Closes: #490937
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
205 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
211 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
218 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
221 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
222 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
223 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
224 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
229 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
231 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
232 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
233 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
234 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
238 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
241 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
242 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
243 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
244 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
245 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
249 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
256 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
258 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
259 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
260 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
261 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
262 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
263 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
264 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
265 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
266 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
267 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
271 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
274 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
275 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
276 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
277 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
279 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
280 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
281 breaking backwards compatability.
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
285 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
288 message in perl 5.10.
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
292 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
298 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Convert copyright file to new format.
301 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
305 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
307 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
308 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
312 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
315 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
316 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
317 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
318 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
319 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
320 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
321 logging by dh_listpackages.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
325 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
328 run and there are no packages of that type.
329 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
330 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
331 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
332 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
334 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
335 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
339 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
341 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
342 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
343 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
347 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
350 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
351 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
353 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
354 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
355 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
356 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
357 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
358 planned but not yet implemented.)
359 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
360 if the Makefile has such a target.
361 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
362 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
363 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
364 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
365 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
366 but not yet implemented.)
367 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
368 recommended default, especially when using dh.
369 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
370 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
371 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
373 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
375 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
376 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
378 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
379 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
380 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
385 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
388 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
389 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
393 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
395 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
396 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
397 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
401 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
407 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
413 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
416 just those installed by the program.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
420 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
422 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
423 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
424 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
428 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
431 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
432 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
433 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
434 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
438 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
441 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
442 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
446 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
449 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
450 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
454 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
457 with policy. Closes: #461392
458 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
459 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
460 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
461 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
462 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
466 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
469 Closes: #460340, #460351
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
473 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
475 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
476 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
477 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
478 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
479 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
483 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
485 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
486 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
487 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
488 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
489 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
490 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
491 package build directory won't work.
492 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
493 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
494 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
495 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
496 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
497 mode. Closes: #459426
498 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
503 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
506 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
510 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
514 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
515 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
516 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
517 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
518 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
519 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
523 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
526 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
527 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
528 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
529 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
533 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
536 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
537 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
538 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
539 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
540 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
544 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
547 debian/package.triggers files.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
551 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
554 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
558 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
561 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
562 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
563 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
564 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
569 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
572 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
576 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
579 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
580 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
582 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
587 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
591 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
592 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
593 * Typo. Closes: #441272
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
597 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
604 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
611 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
614 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
616 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
617 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
618 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
620 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
621 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
622 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
626 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
629 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
630 * Update urls to web page.
631 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
633 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
634 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
638 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
640 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
641 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
642 - typo in alternatives call
643 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
645 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
646 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
650 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
653 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
658 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
664 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
670 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
673 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
675 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
676 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
677 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
678 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
679 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
680 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
681 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
682 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
683 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
684 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
685 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
689 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
692 package install. Closes: #415717
693 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
694 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
695 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
696 script and then remove the python files.
697 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
698 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
699 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
700 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
701 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
702 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
703 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
704 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
705 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
706 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
707 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
708 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
709 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
713 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Correct typo in french translation
719 * Typo. Closes: #400571
720 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
722 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
724 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
725 Closes: #406921, #381940
726 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
728 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
729 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
730 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
731 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
732 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
733 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
734 specified). Closes: #381851
735 * Misc minor changes.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
739 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
746 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
747 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
751 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
757 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
758 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
761 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
762 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
764 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
765 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
766 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
767 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
771 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
774 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
777 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
781 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
787 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
793 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
794 a difficult situation.
795 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
796 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
797 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
798 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
799 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
800 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
801 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
802 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
803 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
804 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
808 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Non-maintainer upload.
811 * Update of dh_python
812 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
813 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
815 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
816 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
817 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
818 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
819 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
821 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
823 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Non-maintainer upload.
826 * Update of dh_python
827 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
828 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
829 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
830 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
831 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
832 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
833 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
834 specific python version. Closes: #373853
835 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
836 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
838 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
839 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
840 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
841 the not too-distant future).
842 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
843 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
844 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
845 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
846 thus made the build fail.
848 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
850 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
852 * Non-maintainer upload.
853 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
855 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
857 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
860 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
861 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
862 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
863 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
864 package. Closes: #301424
865 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
866 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
867 fonts). Closes: #372686
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
871 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
877 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
878 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
879 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
880 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
881 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
882 above, but already depends on that.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
886 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
889 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
890 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
891 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
892 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
893 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
897 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
903 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
909 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
910 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
914 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
917 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
921 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
925 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
926 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
927 new version (0.24.1).
928 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
929 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
932 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
933 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
934 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
935 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
936 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
937 new directory on their own.
938 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
939 * Fix broken directory removal code.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
943 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
946 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
947 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
948 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
949 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
953 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
956 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
957 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
958 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
959 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
960 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
964 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
970 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Typo. Closes: #358904
974 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
975 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
979 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
980 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
984 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
986 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
987 || exit 0 instead of the intended
989 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
990 ignored. Closes: #337664
992 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
997 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1003 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1008 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1009 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1010 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1011 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1012 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1013 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1014 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1018 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1021 version. Closes: #350607
1022 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1023 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1024 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1025 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1029 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1032 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1033 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1034 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1038 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1045 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1051 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1054 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1058 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1061 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1062 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1063 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1064 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1065 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1066 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1070 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1073 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1074 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1079 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1082 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1086 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1089 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1093 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1096 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1097 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1098 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1099 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1100 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1101 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1105 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1109 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1110 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1111 link. Closes: #346405
1112 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1114 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1115 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1116 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1117 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1118 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1119 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1120 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1124 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1131 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1137 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1140 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1144 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1147 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1152 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1156 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1157 installed. Closes: #342033
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1161 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1164 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1165 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1166 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1171 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1177 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1183 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1187 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1188 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1189 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1193 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1196 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1201 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1208 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1214 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1217 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1218 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1219 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1220 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1221 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1222 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1223 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1225 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1229 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1232 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1233 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1237 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1240 in standard man dirs.
1241 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1245 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1251 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1254 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1259 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1266 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1273 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1276 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1277 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1281 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1284 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1285 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1286 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1288 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1290 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1296 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1302 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1305 mode. Closes: #324161
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1309 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1312 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1313 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1314 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1315 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1320 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1323 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1324 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1325 is necesary for sanity.
1326 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1327 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1332 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1334 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1335 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1339 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1342 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1346 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1352 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1355 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1356 released, so use at your own risk.
1357 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1358 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1360 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1361 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1362 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1363 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1364 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1365 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1366 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1367 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1368 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1369 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1370 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1371 including twice per config file line now..
1372 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1373 and simplfy the rules file.
1374 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1375 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1376 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1378 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1379 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1383 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1386 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1390 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1393 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1397 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1400 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1404 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1407 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1408 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1409 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1410 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1411 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1412 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1416 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1419 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1420 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1421 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1426 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1429 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1430 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1435 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1438 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1439 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1440 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1445 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1448 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1449 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1450 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1454 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1460 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1467 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1470 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1471 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1472 unknown. Closes: #282924
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1476 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1483 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Spanish man page updates.
1486 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1491 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1497 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1500 * dh_desktop: reindent
1501 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1502 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1506 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1512 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1514 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1518 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1520 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1524 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1527 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1528 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1532 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1538 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1544 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1551 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1554 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1558 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1561 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1562 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1563 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1564 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1565 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1566 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1568 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1569 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1570 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1571 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1572 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1573 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1574 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1575 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1576 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1577 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1578 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1579 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1580 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1581 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1582 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1583 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1587 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1594 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1597 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1601 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1604 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1608 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1611 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1615 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1618 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1622 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1628 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1634 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1640 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1643 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1644 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1645 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1649 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1652 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1656 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1659 but occasionally right and necessary.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1663 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1666 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1667 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1668 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1669 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1670 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1674 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1677 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1679 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1680 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1681 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1682 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1683 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1684 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1685 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1686 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1687 postinst scripts for udebs.
1688 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1692 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1695 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1697 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1698 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1702 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1708 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1715 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1722 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1725 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1729 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1732 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1736 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1739 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1742 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1743 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1747 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1753 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1756 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1760 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1763 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1764 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1765 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1767 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1769 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1770 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1771 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1775 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1778 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1783 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1786 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1787 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1788 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1793 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1799 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1805 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1808 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1809 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1810 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1811 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1812 associated -dbg packages.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1816 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1819 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1823 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1826 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1830 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1833 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1837 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1840 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1845 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1848 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1852 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1855 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1860 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1863 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1867 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1871 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1872 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1873 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1874 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1875 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1876 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1877 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1878 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1879 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1880 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1884 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1887 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1895 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1896 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1900 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1903 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1904 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1909 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1912 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1916 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1919 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1923 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1926 out section number. Closes: #204731
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1930 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1937 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1943 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1949 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1952 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1953 removal. Closes: #204286
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1957 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1960 renaming. Closes: #203548
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1964 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1967 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1968 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1972 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1978 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1984 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1990 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1993 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1994 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1995 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1999 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2002 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2003 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2007 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2013 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2023 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2028 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2031 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2038 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2040 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2041 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2045 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2048 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2053 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2056 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2060 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2066 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2068 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2072 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2075 it break hard links (see #188663).
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2082 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2086 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2092 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2096 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2097 debconf-mergetemplates
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2101 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2104 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2108 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2111 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2115 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2118 * Update debhelper(1).
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2122 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2125 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2126 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2127 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2128 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2129 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2133 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2136 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2137 the shell. Closes: #178524
2138 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2142 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2145 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2149 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2152 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2156 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2159 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2160 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2161 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2162 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2167 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2170 files from installation.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2174 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2177 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2178 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2182 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2185 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2189 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2192 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2196 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2202 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2208 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2212 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2213 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2215 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2219 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2222 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2223 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2224 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2225 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2229 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2232 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2236 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2239 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2240 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2244 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2248 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2253 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2259 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2263 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2264 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2265 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2273 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2274 practice. Closes: #163303
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2278 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2284 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2291 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2294 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2296 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2297 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2298 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2299 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2300 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2304 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2307 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2312 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2318 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2325 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2328 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2333 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2339 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2345 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2351 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2358 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2361 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2362 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2363 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2364 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2369 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2375 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2382 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2385 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2386 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2390 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2393 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2394 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2395 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2396 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2397 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2401 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2404 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2406 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2411 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2414 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2418 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2421 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2422 right thing. Closes: #150644
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2426 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * Stupid, evil typo.
2429 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2433 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2440 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2443 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2444 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2449 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2455 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2458 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2462 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2465 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2466 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2471 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2474 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2478 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2484 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2487 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2488 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2492 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2498 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Removing perl warning message.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2504 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2507 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2508 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2509 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2510 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2511 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2512 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2513 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2514 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2518 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2524 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2531 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2534 debconf-mergetemplate.
2535 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2536 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2540 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2543 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2544 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2545 dh_install, which ...
2546 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2547 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2548 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2549 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2550 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2551 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2552 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2553 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2554 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2555 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2556 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2557 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2558 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2559 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2560 other minor changes.
2561 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2562 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2563 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2564 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2565 course there's -X ..)
2566 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2567 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2568 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2570 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2571 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2572 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2573 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2574 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2579 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2585 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2588 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2592 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2598 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2604 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2610 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2616 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2619 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2620 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2621 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2622 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2624 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2625 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2629 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2635 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2638 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2642 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2645 upset. Closes: #131322
2647 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2649 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2652 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2653 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2654 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2655 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2656 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2657 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2658 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2659 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2660 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2661 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2662 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2663 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2664 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2665 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2666 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2668 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2672 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2675 - Better indenting of generated code.
2676 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2680 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2684 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2685 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2686 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2687 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2688 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2689 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2690 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2694 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2697 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2701 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2704 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2705 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2706 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2707 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2708 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2709 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2710 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2711 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2712 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2713 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2714 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2715 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2716 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2717 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2718 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2723 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2729 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2732 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2733 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2737 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2740 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2741 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2745 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2751 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2754 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2755 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2756 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2757 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2758 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2763 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2769 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2772 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2776 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2779 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2784 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2790 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2793 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2797 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2803 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2807 Also some indentation fixes.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2811 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2814 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2815 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2816 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2817 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2818 Closes: #106514, #85520
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2822 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2828 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2834 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2840 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2846 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2852 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2855 change it in debhelper v4..
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2859 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2865 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2868 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2872 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2875 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2879 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2885 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2888 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2889 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2890 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2891 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2892 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2893 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2894 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2895 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2896 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2897 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2898 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2899 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2903 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2906 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2910 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2917 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2920 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2921 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2922 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2923 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2924 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2925 program those options go to. So, for example,
2926 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2927 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2928 something complex. Closes: #89311
2929 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2933 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2936 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2937 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2938 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2942 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2945 through loop. Closes: #98598
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2949 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * Missing semi-colon.
2952 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2953 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2957 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2960 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2961 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2962 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2966 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2969 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2970 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2974 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2977 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2981 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2984 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2985 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2989 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2992 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2993 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2994 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2998 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3001 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3002 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3003 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3007 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3010 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3014 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3020 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3026 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3032 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3038 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3041 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3045 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3048 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3049 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3050 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3051 followed. Closes: #85483
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3055 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3057 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3058 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3059 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3063 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3066 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3067 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3068 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3069 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3070 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3071 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3072 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3073 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3074 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3075 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3076 Closes: #88464, #77743
3077 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3078 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3079 us to deal with that gracefully.
3080 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3082 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3083 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3084 a while, Closes: #51225
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3088 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3094 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3097 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3101 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3105 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3110 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3113 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3114 don't make packlist files.
3115 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3116 debhelper coding standards.
3117 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3118 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3122 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3125 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3129 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3132 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3133 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3134 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3135 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3136 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3137 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3138 but is mildly deprecated.
3139 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3140 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3141 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3142 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3143 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3144 switching to statoverrides..
3145 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3146 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3147 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3148 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3149 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3150 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3152 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3153 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3154 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3155 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3156 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3157 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3158 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3159 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3160 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3162 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3163 variable names, pod man pages).
3164 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3165 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3166 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3167 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3168 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3169 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3170 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3174 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3180 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3187 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3190 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3194 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3196 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3197 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3198 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3202 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3204 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3205 they were previously ignored.
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3209 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3211 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3212 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3216 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3218 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3219 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3220 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3224 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3226 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3230 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3232 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3233 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3237 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3239 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3240 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3241 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3242 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3243 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3244 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3245 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3246 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3247 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3248 it is an obsolete program.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3252 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3254 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3258 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3262 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3264 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3268 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3270 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3272 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3274 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3278 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3284 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * typo: Closes, #78567
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3290 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3296 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3302 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3305 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3306 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3307 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3308 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3309 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3313 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3316 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3321 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3324 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3325 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3326 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3327 backwards-compatability.
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3331 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3334 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3335 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3336 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3337 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3338 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3339 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3341 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3342 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3343 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3345 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3347 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3348 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3349 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3350 should now be raised to severity important..
3351 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3352 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3356 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3359 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3364 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3370 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3376 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3382 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3389 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3392 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3393 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3394 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3395 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3399 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3405 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3408 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3409 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3410 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3411 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3412 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3413 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3418 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3421 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3425 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3431 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3434 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3439 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3442 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3443 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3444 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3445 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3449 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3453 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3456 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3459 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3460 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3463 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3465 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3466 the TODO entry about it.
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3470 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3477 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3480 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3481 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3485 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3488 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3489 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3490 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3491 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3495 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3501 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3508 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3511 (this appears to be logal).
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3515 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3518 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3519 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3520 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3521 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3525 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3531 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3534 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3535 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3536 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3537 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3541 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3547 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3550 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3554 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3561 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3564 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3565 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3566 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3571 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3578 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3584 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3587 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3588 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3589 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3590 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3591 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3592 notice until v2 is complete.
3593 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3594 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3595 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3596 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3597 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3598 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3600 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3601 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3602 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3603 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3607 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3613 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3620 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3623 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3627 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3634 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3637 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3638 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3639 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3640 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3645 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3648 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3649 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3650 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3655 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3658 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3659 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3663 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3666 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3670 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3673 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3677 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3684 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3687 depend on the build and install targets.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3691 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3694 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3698 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3705 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3711 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3717 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3720 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3721 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3722 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3723 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3724 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3725 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3727 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3728 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3729 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3730 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3731 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3732 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3733 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3737 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3743 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3749 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3752 right place. Closes: #55065
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3756 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3763 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3766 * Copyright date updates.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3773 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3778 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3784 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3791 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3797 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3803 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3809 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3812 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3813 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3814 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3815 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3816 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3817 bits until all files have been registered.
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3821 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * dh_installmanpages:
3824 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3825 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3826 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3827 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3828 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3829 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3830 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3831 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3832 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3833 otherwise change the result at all.
3835 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3836 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3837 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3838 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3839 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3844 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3850 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3853 act on files that don't exist.
3854 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3855 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3856 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3858 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3859 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3860 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3861 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3865 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3871 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3877 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3880 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3884 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3887 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3889 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3890 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3891 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3895 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3898 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3899 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3900 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3901 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3902 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3903 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3904 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3906 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3908 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3912 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3919 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3925 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3931 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3934 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3938 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3944 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3950 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3953 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3954 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3955 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3956 I made some changes, though:
3957 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3958 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3959 that is a clear violation of policy.
3960 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3961 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3962 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3963 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3964 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3965 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3966 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3967 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3968 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3970 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3974 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3980 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3983 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3987 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3990 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3991 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3996 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4002 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4009 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4012 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4013 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4014 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4015 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4016 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4017 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4018 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4022 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4028 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4032 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4033 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4037 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4043 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4046 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4050 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4053 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4054 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4058 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4060 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4065 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4069 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4073 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4076 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4077 for the dependancies to be generated.
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4081 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4084 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4088 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4091 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4092 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4093 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4098 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4101 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4102 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4106 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4112 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4118 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4121 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4125 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4131 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4134 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4135 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4136 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4137 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4138 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4139 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4140 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4141 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4142 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4143 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4144 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4145 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4149 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4152 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4153 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4155 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4156 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4157 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4158 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4159 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4160 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4162 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4163 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4167 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4170 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4174 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4181 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4184 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4189 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4192 for building debhelper.
4193 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4204 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4207 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4211 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4214 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4215 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4216 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4217 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4218 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4219 it's always available.
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4223 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4226 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4227 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4228 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4235 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4236 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4240 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4246 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4249 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4253 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4259 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4261 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4262 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4263 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4264 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4268 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4271 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4276 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4279 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4280 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4282 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4283 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4287 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4293 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4299 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4302 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4306 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4309 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4310 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4312 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4316 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4319 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4320 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4321 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4325 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4328 things if CDPATH is set.
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4332 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4338 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4340 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4341 seems to make sense for the transition.
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4345 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4348 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4353 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4356 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4357 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4361 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4364 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4368 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4371 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4372 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4373 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4374 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4378 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4384 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4387 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4388 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4389 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4390 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4391 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4392 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4393 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4394 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4395 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4396 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4401 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4404 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4405 * README: mention doc/v2
4406 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4407 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4411 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4413 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4414 be using this script RSN.
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4418 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4421 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4422 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4423 more than 1 init script.
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4427 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4430 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4434 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * Changed perl version detection.
4437 * Changed call to find.
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4441 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4444 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4446 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4451 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * Really include dh_installpam.
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4457 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4460 * Wrote man page for same.
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4464 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4467 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4468 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4473 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4480 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4483 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4484 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4485 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4486 x bit was being set!
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4490 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4493 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4494 well. (Closes: 38900)
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4498 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4501 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4502 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4506 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4512 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4519 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4525 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4528 help from Julian Gilbey.
4529 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4530 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4531 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4532 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4533 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4534 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4535 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4540 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4546 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4553 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4559 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4565 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4568 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4572 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4575 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4579 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4582 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4586 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4592 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4595 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4599 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4605 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4607 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4611 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4614 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4615 may be deleted. (#35845)
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4619 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * Various man page enhancements.
4622 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4627 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4630 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4631 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4635 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4638 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4639 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4640 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4642 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4643 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4648 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4650 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4654 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4656 * Another very minor typo fix.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4660 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Very minor typo fix.
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4666 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4669 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4670 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4674 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4680 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4683 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4684 variables properly (#34850).
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4688 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4694 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4697 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4698 (automatically generated by build process).
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4702 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4704 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4708 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4711 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4712 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4714 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4718 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4721 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4725 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * README: minor typo fix.
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4731 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4734 leave it at that. :-)
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4738 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4744 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4750 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4753 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4754 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4755 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4759 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4762 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4766 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4769 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4773 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4776 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4777 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4778 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4779 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4783 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4786 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4787 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4788 Craig Small for spotting this.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4792 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4795 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4796 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4800 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4806 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4809 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4813 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4815 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4816 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4817 working on the last version of debhelper.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4821 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4824 being made. (#23255)
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4828 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4834 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4837 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4841 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4844 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4845 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4846 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4847 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4851 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4854 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4855 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4856 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4857 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4859 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4860 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4862 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4867 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4873 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4879 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4882 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4883 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4884 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4885 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4886 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4887 suidregister actually supports it.
4888 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4889 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4893 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4900 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4903 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4904 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4905 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4906 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4907 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4908 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4909 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4913 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4915 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4916 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4920 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4923 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4924 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4925 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4926 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4930 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4933 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4935 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4936 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4937 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4938 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4939 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4940 effect, either. (#30118)
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4944 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4950 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4953 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4954 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4958 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4964 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4967 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4968 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4969 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4970 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4974 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4977 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4978 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4982 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4988 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4991 packages, painlessly.
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4995 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5001 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5007 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5013 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * The perl conversion is complete.
5017 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5019 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5020 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5021 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5026 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5029 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5030 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5031 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5035 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5038 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5040 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5042 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5043 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5047 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5050 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5051 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5055 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5061 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5064 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5065 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5066 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5067 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5068 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5072 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5075 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5076 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5077 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5078 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5082 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5085 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5089 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5092 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5093 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5094 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5095 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5096 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5097 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5098 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5099 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5103 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5109 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5112 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5113 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5114 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5119 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5122 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5126 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5129 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5133 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5136 sections of shared libraries.
5137 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5138 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5139 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5140 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5141 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5142 things you don't want them to.
5143 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5144 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5148 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5151 shared libraries. (#26414)
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5155 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5157 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5158 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5159 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5160 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5164 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5168 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5170 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5171 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5172 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5173 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5174 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5178 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5181 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5185 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5187 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5188 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5189 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5194 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5197 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5201 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5204 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5205 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5206 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5207 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5208 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5210 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5211 remove debian/files properly.
5212 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5213 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5214 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5215 * Removed bogus menu file.
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5219 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5222 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5226 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5229 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5230 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5231 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5232 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5233 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5234 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5238 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5241 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5242 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5243 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5244 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5248 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5255 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5258 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5259 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5261 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5262 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5263 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5264 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5265 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5266 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5270 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5273 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5274 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5275 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5276 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5277 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5278 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5279 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5280 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5281 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5282 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5283 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5284 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5285 passed any switches.
5286 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5290 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5293 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5294 at all for a long while.
5295 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5296 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5297 large chunks in the process.
5298 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5299 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5300 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5305 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5308 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5310 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5315 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5318 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5319 that don't always have the same files in them.
5320 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5321 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5322 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5326 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5330 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5331 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5332 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5333 updating 27 man pages.
5334 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5335 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5336 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5337 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5338 programs act on. (#25247)
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5342 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5346 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5347 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5348 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5349 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5350 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5351 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5356 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5363 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5370 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5373 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5377 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5379 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5383 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5385 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5386 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5387 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5388 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5389 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5390 package by accident.
5391 * Is version 1.0 next?
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5395 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5398 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5399 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5403 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5406 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5407 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5408 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5409 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5410 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5412 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5417 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5420 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5421 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5425 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5428 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5432 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5434 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5435 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5436 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5441 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5447 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5450 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5451 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5456 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5462 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5465 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5466 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5467 past week. Thanks, guys!
5469 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5470 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5471 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5472 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5473 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5474 would do in the same situation.
5475 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5476 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5478 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5480 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5481 permissions changed.
5482 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5483 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5484 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5485 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5486 files are treated identically.
5487 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5488 * Minor man page fixes.
5489 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5490 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5491 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5495 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5498 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5499 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5500 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5501 use -X multiple times, too.
5502 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5503 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5507 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5510 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5511 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5515 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5517 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5518 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5522 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5525 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5526 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5527 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5528 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5529 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5530 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5531 shape if you're starting a new package.
5533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5535 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5537 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5538 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5542 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5545 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5546 because of missing symlinks.
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5550 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5556 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5559 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5560 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5561 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5562 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5563 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5565 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5566 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5570 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5572 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5573 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5574 to be changed after the fact :-)
5575 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5579 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5581 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5582 no version string after the -V.
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5586 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5588 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5589 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5594 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5597 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5601 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5604 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5605 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5606 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5607 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5608 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5609 I always welcome corrections!
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5613 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5619 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5622 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5623 * Documented this new switch.
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5627 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5630 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5631 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5632 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5633 no packages use the old behavior.
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5637 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5639 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5640 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5641 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5645 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5648 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5652 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5658 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5661 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5665 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5668 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5669 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5670 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5674 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5680 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5683 into the source package by accident.
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5687 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5689 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5690 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5691 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5692 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5693 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5694 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5695 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5700 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5704 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5705 inspired to implement some of it.
5706 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5710 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5712 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5713 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5717 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5719 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5720 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5721 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5725 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5728 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5729 have done.) (#17598)
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5733 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5739 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5745 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5747 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5748 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5752 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5755 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5756 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5760 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5763 argument processor in perl.
5764 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5765 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5766 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5767 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5771 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5774 type directories. (#16933)
5775 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5776 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5777 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5778 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5779 are supported. (#16935)
5780 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5785 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5788 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5792 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5796 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5797 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5798 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5799 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5800 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5801 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5805 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5808 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5809 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5811 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5812 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5813 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5814 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5815 a given package, or -i or -a.
5816 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5817 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5818 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5819 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5820 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5821 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5822 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5823 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5824 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5826 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5827 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5828 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5832 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5834 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5835 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5836 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5841 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5844 does not have a section.
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5848 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5850 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5851 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5852 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5853 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5857 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * Fixed typo #16215.
5861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5863 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5865 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5866 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5867 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5868 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5869 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5870 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5875 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5878 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5879 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5880 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5885 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5891 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5893 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5897 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5900 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5901 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5902 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5903 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5904 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5905 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5909 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5911 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5915 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5917 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5918 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5922 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5924 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5925 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5926 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5927 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5931 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5933 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5934 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5938 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5940 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5944 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5946 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5947 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5951 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5953 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5954 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5958 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5960 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5964 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5967 postinst, postrm, etc.
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5971 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5977 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5980 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5981 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5982 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5983 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5984 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5988 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5990 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5991 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5992 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5996 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5999 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6003 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6005 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6006 installing package files into.
6007 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6012 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6016 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6020 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6022 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6026 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6029 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6033 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6036 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6037 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6038 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6039 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6043 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6045 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6046 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6047 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6048 multiple binary packages.
6049 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6050 should rebuild them with this version.
6051 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6055 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6058 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6062 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6064 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6065 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6069 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6071 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6072 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6073 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6074 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6075 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6076 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6077 debian/README.debian.
6078 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6079 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6080 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6081 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6082 in a few situations.)
6084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6086 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6088 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6092 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6094 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6098 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6100 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6101 * Fixed several man pages.
6103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6105 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6107 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6108 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6109 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6113 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6116 is ready for general use.
6117 * Added man pages for all commands.
6118 * Multiple binary package support.
6119 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6120 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6121 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6123 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6124 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6125 auto-installed as parameters.
6126 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6128 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6131 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6132 the package build directory it is to act on.
6133 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6134 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6135 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6139 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6141 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6142 ready to replace debstd.
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400