1 debhelper (5.0.58) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
4 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:27:26 -0400
8 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
11 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
12 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
13 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
14 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
19 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
22 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
26 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
29 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
30 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
32 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
37 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
41 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
42 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
43 * Typo. Closes: #441272
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
47 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
54 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
61 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
64 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
66 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
67 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
68 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
70 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
71 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
72 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
76 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
79 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
80 * Update urls to web page.
81 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
83 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
84 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
88 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
90 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
91 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
92 - typo in alternatives call
93 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
95 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
96 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
100 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
103 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
108 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
114 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
120 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
123 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
125 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
126 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
127 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
128 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
129 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
130 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
131 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
132 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
133 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
134 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
135 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
139 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
142 package install. Closes: #415717
143 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
144 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
145 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
146 script and then remove the python files.
147 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
148 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
149 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
150 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
151 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
152 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
153 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
154 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
155 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
156 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
157 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
158 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
159 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
163 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Correct typo in french translation
169 * Typo. Closes: #400571
170 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
172 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
174 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
175 Closes: #406921, #381940
176 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
178 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
179 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
180 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
181 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
182 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
183 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
184 specified). Closes: #381851
185 * Misc minor changes.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
189 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
196 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
197 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
201 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
207 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
208 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
211 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
212 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
214 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
215 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
216 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
217 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
221 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
224 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
227 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
231 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
237 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
243 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
244 a difficult situation.
245 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
246 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
247 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
248 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
249 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
250 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
251 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
252 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
253 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
254 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
258 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Non-maintainer upload.
261 * Update of dh_python
262 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
263 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
265 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
266 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
267 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
268 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
269 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
271 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
273 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Non-maintainer upload.
276 * Update of dh_python
277 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
278 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
279 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
280 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
281 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
282 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
283 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
284 specific python version. Closes: #373853
285 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
286 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
288 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
289 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
290 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
291 the not too-distant future).
292 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
293 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
294 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
295 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
296 thus made the build fail.
298 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
300 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Non-maintainer upload.
303 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
305 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
307 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
310 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
311 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
312 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
313 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
314 package. Closes: #301424
315 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
316 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
317 fonts). Closes: #372686
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
321 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
327 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
328 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
329 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
330 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
331 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
332 above, but already depends on that.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
336 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
339 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
340 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
341 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
342 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
343 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
347 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
353 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
356 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
359 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
360 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
364 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
366 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
367 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
371 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
375 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
376 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
377 new version (0.24.1).
378 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
379 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
382 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
383 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
384 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
385 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
386 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
387 new directory on their own.
388 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
389 * Fix broken directory removal code.
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
393 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
396 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
397 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
398 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
399 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
403 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
406 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
407 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
408 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
409 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
410 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
414 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
420 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Typo. Closes: #358904
424 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
425 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
429 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
430 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
434 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
436 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
437 || exit 0 instead of the intended
439 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
440 ignored. Closes: #337664
442 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
447 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
453 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
458 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
459 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
460 the dh_installdebconf manpage
461 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
462 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
463 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
464 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
468 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
471 version. Closes: #350607
472 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
473 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
474 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
475 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
479 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
481 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
482 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
483 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
484 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
488 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
495 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Minor bug fix from last release.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
501 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
504 language guessing. Closes: #193221
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
508 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
511 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
512 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
513 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
514 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
515 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
516 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
520 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
523 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
524 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
529 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
532 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
536 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
539 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
543 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
546 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
547 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
548 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
549 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
550 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
551 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
555 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
558 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
559 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
560 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
561 link. Closes: #346405
562 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
565 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
566 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
567 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
568 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
569 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
570 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
574 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
581 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
583 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
587 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
590 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
594 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
597 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
602 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
606 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
607 installed. Closes: #342033
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
611 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
614 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
615 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
616 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
621 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
627 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
633 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
637 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
638 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
639 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
643 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
646 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
651 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
658 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
664 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
666 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
667 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
668 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
669 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
670 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
671 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
672 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
673 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
675 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
679 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
682 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
683 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
687 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
690 in standard man dirs.
691 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
695 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
701 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
704 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
709 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
716 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
723 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
726 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
727 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
731 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
733 * NMU with maintainer approval.
734 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
735 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
736 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
738 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
740 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
746 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
752 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
755 mode. Closes: #324161
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
759 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
762 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
763 behavior change. Closes: #249815
764 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
765 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
770 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
773 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
774 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
775 is necesary for sanity.
776 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
777 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
782 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
784 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
785 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
789 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
792 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
796 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
802 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
804 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
805 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
806 released, so use at your own risk.
807 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
808 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
810 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
811 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
812 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
813 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
814 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
815 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
816 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
817 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
818 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
819 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
820 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
821 including twice per config file line now..
822 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
823 and simplfy the rules file.
824 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
825 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
826 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
828 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
829 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
833 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
836 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
840 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
843 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
847 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
849 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
850 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
854 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
857 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
858 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
859 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
860 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
861 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
862 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
866 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
868 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
869 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
870 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
871 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
876 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
878 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
879 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
880 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
885 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
888 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
889 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
890 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
895 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
898 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
899 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
900 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
904 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
910 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
917 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
920 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
921 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
922 unknown. Closes: #282924
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
926 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
933 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Spanish man page updates.
936 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
941 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
947 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
950 * dh_desktop: reindent
951 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
952 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
956 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
962 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
964 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
968 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
970 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
974 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
977 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
978 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
982 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
988 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
994 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
996 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1001 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1004 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1008 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1011 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1012 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1013 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1014 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1015 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1016 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1018 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1019 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1020 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1021 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1022 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1023 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1024 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1025 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1026 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1027 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1028 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1029 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1030 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1031 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1032 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1033 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1037 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1044 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1047 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1051 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1054 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1058 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1061 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1065 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1068 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1072 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1078 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1084 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1090 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1093 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1094 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1095 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1099 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1102 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1106 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1109 but occasionally right and necessary.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1113 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1116 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1117 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1118 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1119 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1120 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1124 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1127 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1129 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1130 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1131 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1132 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1133 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1134 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1135 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1136 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1137 postinst scripts for udebs.
1138 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1142 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1145 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1147 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1148 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1152 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1158 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1165 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1172 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1175 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1179 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1182 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1186 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1189 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1192 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1193 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1197 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1203 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1206 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1210 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1213 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1214 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1215 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1217 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1219 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1220 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1221 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1225 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1228 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1233 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1236 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1237 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1238 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1243 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1249 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1255 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1258 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1259 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1260 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1261 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1262 associated -dbg packages.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1266 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1269 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1273 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1276 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1280 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1283 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1287 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1290 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1295 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1298 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1302 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1305 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1310 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1313 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1317 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1321 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1322 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1323 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1324 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1325 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1326 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1327 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1328 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1329 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1330 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1334 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1337 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1342 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1345 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1346 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1350 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1353 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1354 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1359 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1362 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1366 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1369 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1373 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1376 out section number. Closes: #204731
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1380 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1387 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1393 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1399 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1402 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1403 removal. Closes: #204286
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1407 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1410 renaming. Closes: #203548
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1414 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1417 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1418 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1422 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1428 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1434 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1440 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1443 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1444 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1445 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1449 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1452 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1453 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1457 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1463 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1470 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1473 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1478 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1481 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1485 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1488 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1490 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1491 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1495 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1498 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1503 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1506 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1510 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1516 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1518 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1522 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1525 it break hard links (see #188663).
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1529 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1532 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1536 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1542 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1546 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1547 debconf-mergetemplates
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1551 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1554 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1558 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1561 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1565 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1568 * Update debhelper(1).
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1572 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1575 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1576 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1577 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1578 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1579 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1583 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1586 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1587 the shell. Closes: #178524
1588 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1592 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1595 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1599 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1602 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1606 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1609 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1610 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1611 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1612 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1617 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1620 files from installation.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1624 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1627 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1628 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1632 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1635 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1639 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1642 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1646 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1652 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1658 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1662 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1663 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1665 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1669 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1672 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1673 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1674 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1675 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1679 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1682 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1686 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1689 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1690 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1694 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1698 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1703 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1709 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1713 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1714 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1715 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1720 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1723 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1724 practice. Closes: #163303
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1728 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1734 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1741 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1744 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1746 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1747 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1748 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1749 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1750 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1754 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1757 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1762 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1768 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1775 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1778 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1783 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1789 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1795 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1801 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1808 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1811 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1812 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1813 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1814 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1819 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1825 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1832 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1835 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1836 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1840 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1843 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1844 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1845 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1846 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1847 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1851 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1854 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1856 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1861 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1864 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1868 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1871 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1872 right thing. Closes: #150644
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1876 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Stupid, evil typo.
1879 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1883 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1890 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1893 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1894 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1899 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1905 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1908 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1912 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1915 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1916 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1921 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1924 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1928 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1934 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1937 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1938 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1942 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1948 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Removing perl warning message.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1954 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1957 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1958 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1959 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1960 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1961 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1962 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1963 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1964 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1968 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1974 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1981 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1984 debconf-mergetemplate.
1985 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1986 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1990 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1993 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1994 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1995 dh_install, which ...
1996 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1997 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1998 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1999 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2000 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2001 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2002 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2003 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2004 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2005 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2006 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2007 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2008 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2009 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2010 other minor changes.
2011 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2012 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2013 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2014 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2015 course there's -X ..)
2016 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2017 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2018 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2020 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2021 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2022 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2023 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2024 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2029 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2035 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2038 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2042 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2048 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2054 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2060 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2066 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2069 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2070 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2071 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2072 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2074 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2075 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2079 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2085 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2088 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2092 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2095 upset. Closes: #131322
2097 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2099 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2102 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2103 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2104 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2105 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2106 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2107 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2108 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2109 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2110 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2111 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2112 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2113 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2114 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2115 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2116 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2118 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2122 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2125 - Better indenting of generated code.
2126 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2130 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2134 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2135 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2136 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2137 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2138 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2139 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2140 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2144 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2147 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2151 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2154 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2155 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2156 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2157 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2158 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2159 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2160 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2161 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2162 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2163 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2164 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2165 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2166 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2167 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2168 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2173 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2179 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2182 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2183 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2187 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2190 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2191 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2195 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2201 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2204 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2205 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2206 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2207 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2208 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2213 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2219 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2222 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2226 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2229 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2234 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2240 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2243 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2247 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2253 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2257 Also some indentation fixes.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2261 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2264 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2265 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2266 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2267 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2268 Closes: #106514, #85520
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2272 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2278 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2284 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2290 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2296 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2302 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2305 change it in debhelper v4..
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2309 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2315 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2318 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2322 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2325 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2329 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2335 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2338 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2339 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2340 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2341 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2342 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2343 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2344 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2345 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2346 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2347 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2348 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2349 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2353 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2356 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2360 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2367 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2370 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2371 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2372 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2373 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2374 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2375 program those options go to. So, for example,
2376 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2377 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2378 something complex. Closes: #89311
2379 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2383 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2386 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2387 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2388 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2392 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2395 through loop. Closes: #98598
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2399 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Missing semi-colon.
2402 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2403 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2407 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2410 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2411 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2412 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2416 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2419 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2420 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2424 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2427 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2431 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2434 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2435 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2439 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2442 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2443 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2444 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2448 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2451 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2452 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2453 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2457 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2460 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2464 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2470 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2476 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2482 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2488 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2491 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2495 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2498 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2499 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2500 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2501 followed. Closes: #85483
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2505 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2507 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2508 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2509 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2513 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2516 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2517 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2518 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2519 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2520 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2521 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2522 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2523 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2524 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2525 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2526 Closes: #88464, #77743
2527 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2528 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2529 us to deal with that gracefully.
2530 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2532 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2533 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2534 a while, Closes: #51225
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2538 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2544 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2547 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2551 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2555 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2560 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2563 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2564 don't make packlist files.
2565 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2566 debhelper coding standards.
2567 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2568 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2572 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2575 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2579 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2582 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2583 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2584 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2585 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2586 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2587 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2588 but is mildly deprecated.
2589 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2590 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2591 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2592 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2593 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2594 switching to statoverrides..
2595 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2596 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2597 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2598 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2599 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2600 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2602 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2603 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2604 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2605 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2606 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2607 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2608 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2609 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2610 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2612 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2613 variable names, pod man pages).
2614 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2615 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2616 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2617 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2618 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2619 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2620 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2624 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2630 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2637 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2640 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2644 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2646 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2647 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2648 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2652 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2654 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2655 they were previously ignored.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2659 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2661 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2662 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2666 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2668 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2669 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2670 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2674 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2676 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2680 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2682 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2683 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2687 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2689 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2690 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2691 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2692 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2693 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2694 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2695 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2696 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2697 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2698 it is an obsolete program.
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2702 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2704 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2708 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2712 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2714 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2718 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2720 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2722 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2724 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2728 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2734 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * typo: Closes, #78567
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2740 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2746 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2752 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2755 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2756 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2757 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2758 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2759 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2763 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2766 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2771 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2774 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2775 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2776 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2777 backwards-compatability.
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2781 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2784 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2785 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2786 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2787 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2788 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2789 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2791 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2792 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2793 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2795 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2797 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2798 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2799 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2800 should now be raised to severity important..
2801 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2802 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2806 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2809 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2814 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2820 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2826 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2832 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2839 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2842 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2843 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2844 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2845 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2849 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2855 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2858 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2859 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2860 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2861 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2862 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2863 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2868 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2871 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2875 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2881 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2884 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2889 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2892 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2893 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2894 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2895 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2899 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2903 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2906 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2909 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2910 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2913 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2915 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2916 the TODO entry about it.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2920 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2927 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2930 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2931 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2935 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2938 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2939 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2940 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2941 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2945 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2951 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2958 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2961 (this appears to be logal).
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2965 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2968 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2969 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2970 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2971 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2975 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2981 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2984 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2985 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2986 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2987 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2991 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2997 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3000 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3004 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3011 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3014 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3015 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3016 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3021 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3028 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3034 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3037 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3038 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3039 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3040 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3041 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3042 notice until v2 is complete.
3043 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3044 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3045 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3046 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3047 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3048 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3050 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3051 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3052 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3053 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3057 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3063 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3070 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3073 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3077 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3084 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3087 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3088 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3089 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3090 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3095 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3098 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3099 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3100 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3105 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3108 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3109 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3113 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3116 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3120 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3123 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3127 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3134 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3137 depend on the build and install targets.
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3141 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3144 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3148 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3155 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3161 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3167 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3170 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3171 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3172 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3173 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3174 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3175 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3177 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3178 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3179 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3180 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3181 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3182 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3183 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3187 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3193 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3199 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3202 right place. Closes: #55065
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3206 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3213 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3216 * Copyright date updates.
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3220 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3223 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3228 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3234 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3241 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3247 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3253 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3259 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3262 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3263 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3264 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3265 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3266 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3267 bits until all files have been registered.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3271 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * dh_installmanpages:
3274 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3275 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3276 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3277 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3278 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3279 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3280 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3281 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3282 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3283 otherwise change the result at all.
3285 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3286 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3287 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3288 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3289 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3294 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3300 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3303 act on files that don't exist.
3304 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3305 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3306 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3308 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3309 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3310 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3311 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3315 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3321 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3327 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3330 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3334 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3337 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3339 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3340 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3341 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3345 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3348 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3349 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3350 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3351 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3352 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3353 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3354 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3356 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3358 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3362 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3369 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3375 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3381 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3384 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3388 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3394 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3400 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3403 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3404 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3405 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3406 I made some changes, though:
3407 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3408 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3409 that is a clear violation of policy.
3410 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3411 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3412 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3413 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3414 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3415 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3416 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3417 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3418 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3420 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3424 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3430 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3433 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3437 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3440 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3441 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3446 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3452 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3459 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3462 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3463 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3464 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3465 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3466 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3467 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3468 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3472 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3478 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3482 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3483 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3487 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3493 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3496 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3500 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3503 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3504 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3508 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3510 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3515 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3519 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3523 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3526 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3527 for the dependancies to be generated.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3531 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3534 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3538 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3541 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3542 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3543 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3548 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3551 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3552 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3556 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3562 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3568 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3571 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3575 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3581 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3584 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3585 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3586 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3587 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3588 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3589 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3590 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3591 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3592 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3593 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3594 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3595 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3599 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3602 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3603 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3605 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3606 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3607 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3608 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3609 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3610 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3612 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3613 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3617 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3620 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3624 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3631 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3634 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3639 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3642 for building debhelper.
3643 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3647 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3654 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3657 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3661 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3664 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3665 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3666 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3667 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3668 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3669 it's always available.
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3673 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3676 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3677 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3678 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3682 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3685 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3686 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3690 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3696 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3699 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3703 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3709 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3712 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3713 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3714 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3718 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3721 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3726 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3729 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3730 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3732 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3733 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3737 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3743 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3749 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3752 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3756 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3759 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3760 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3762 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3766 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3769 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3770 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3771 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3775 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3778 things if CDPATH is set.
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3782 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3788 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3791 seems to make sense for the transition.
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3795 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3798 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3803 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3806 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3807 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3811 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3814 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3818 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3821 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3822 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3823 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3824 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3828 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3834 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3837 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3838 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3839 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3840 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3841 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3842 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3843 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3844 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3845 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3846 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3851 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3854 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3855 * README: mention doc/v2
3856 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3857 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3861 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3863 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3864 be using this script RSN.
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3868 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3871 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3872 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3873 more than 1 init script.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3877 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3880 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3884 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * Changed perl version detection.
3887 * Changed call to find.
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3891 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3894 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3896 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3901 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * Really include dh_installpam.
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3907 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3910 * Wrote man page for same.
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3914 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3917 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3918 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3923 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3930 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3933 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3934 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3935 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3936 x bit was being set!
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3940 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3943 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3944 well. (Closes: 38900)
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3948 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3951 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3952 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3956 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3962 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3969 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3975 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3978 help from Julian Gilbey.
3979 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3980 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3981 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3982 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3983 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3984 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3985 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3990 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3996 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4003 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4009 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4015 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4018 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4022 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4025 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4029 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4032 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4036 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4042 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4045 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4049 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4055 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4061 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4064 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4065 may be deleted. (#35845)
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4069 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * Various man page enhancements.
4072 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4077 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4080 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4081 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4085 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4088 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4089 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4090 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4092 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4093 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4098 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4104 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * Another very minor typo fix.
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4110 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * Very minor typo fix.
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4116 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4119 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4120 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4124 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4130 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4133 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4134 variables properly (#34850).
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4138 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4144 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4147 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4148 (automatically generated by build process).
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4152 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4154 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4158 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4161 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4162 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4164 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4168 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4171 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4175 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4177 * README: minor typo fix.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4181 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4184 leave it at that. :-)
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4188 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4194 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4200 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4203 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4204 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4205 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4209 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4212 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4216 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4219 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4223 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4226 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4227 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4228 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4229 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4233 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4236 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4237 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4238 Craig Small for spotting this.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4242 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4245 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4246 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4250 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4256 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4259 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4263 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4265 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4266 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4267 working on the last version of debhelper.
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4271 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4274 being made. (#23255)
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4278 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4284 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4287 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4291 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4294 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4295 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4296 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4297 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4301 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4304 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4305 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4306 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4307 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4309 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4310 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4312 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4317 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4323 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4329 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4332 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4333 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4334 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4335 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4336 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4337 suidregister actually supports it.
4338 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4339 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4343 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4350 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4353 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4354 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4355 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4356 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4357 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4358 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4359 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4363 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4365 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4366 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4370 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4373 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4374 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4375 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4376 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4380 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4383 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4385 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4386 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4387 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4388 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4389 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4390 effect, either. (#30118)
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4394 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4400 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4403 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4404 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4408 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4414 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4417 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4418 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4419 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4420 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4424 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4427 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4428 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4432 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4438 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4441 packages, painlessly.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4445 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4451 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4457 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4463 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * The perl conversion is complete.
4467 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4469 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4470 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4471 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4476 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4479 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4480 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4481 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4485 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4488 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4490 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4492 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4493 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4497 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4500 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4501 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4505 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4511 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4514 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4515 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4516 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4517 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4518 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4522 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4525 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4526 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4527 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4528 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4532 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4535 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4539 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4542 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4543 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4544 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4545 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4546 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4547 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4548 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4549 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4553 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4559 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4562 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4563 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4564 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4569 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4572 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4576 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4579 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4583 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4586 sections of shared libraries.
4587 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4588 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4589 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4590 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4591 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4592 things you don't want them to.
4593 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4594 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4598 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4601 shared libraries. (#26414)
4603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4605 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4607 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4608 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4609 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4610 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4614 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4618 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4620 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4621 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4622 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4623 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4624 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4628 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4631 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4635 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4638 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4639 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4644 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4647 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4651 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4654 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4655 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4656 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4657 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4658 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4660 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4661 remove debian/files properly.
4662 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4663 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4664 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4665 * Removed bogus menu file.
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4669 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4672 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4676 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4679 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4680 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4681 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4682 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4683 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4684 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4688 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4691 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4692 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4693 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4694 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4698 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4705 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4708 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4709 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4711 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4712 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4713 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4714 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4715 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4716 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4720 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4723 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4724 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4725 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4726 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4727 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4728 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4729 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4730 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4731 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4732 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4733 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4734 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4735 passed any switches.
4736 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4740 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4743 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4744 at all for a long while.
4745 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4746 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4747 large chunks in the process.
4748 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4749 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4750 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4755 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4758 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4760 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4765 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4768 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4769 that don't always have the same files in them.
4770 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4771 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4772 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4776 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4780 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4781 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4782 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4783 updating 27 man pages.
4784 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4785 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4786 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4787 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4788 programs act on. (#25247)
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4792 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4796 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4797 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4798 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4799 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4800 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4801 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4806 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4813 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4820 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4823 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4827 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4829 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4833 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4835 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4836 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4837 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4838 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4839 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4840 package by accident.
4841 * Is version 1.0 next?
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4845 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4848 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4849 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4853 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4855 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4856 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4857 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4858 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4859 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4860 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4862 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4867 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4870 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4871 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4875 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4878 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4882 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4885 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4886 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4891 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4897 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4900 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4901 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4906 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4912 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4914 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4915 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4916 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4917 past week. Thanks, guys!
4919 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4920 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4921 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4922 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4923 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4924 would do in the same situation.
4925 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4926 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4928 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4930 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4931 permissions changed.
4932 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4933 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4934 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4935 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4936 files are treated identically.
4937 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4938 * Minor man page fixes.
4939 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4940 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4941 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4945 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4948 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4949 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4950 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4951 use -X multiple times, too.
4952 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4953 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4957 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4960 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4961 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4965 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4968 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4972 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4975 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4976 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4977 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4978 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4979 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4980 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4981 shape if you're starting a new package.
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4985 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4988 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4992 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4994 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4995 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4996 because of missing symlinks.
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5000 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5006 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5009 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5010 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5011 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5012 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5013 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5015 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5016 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5020 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5022 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5023 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5024 to be changed after the fact :-)
5025 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5029 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5031 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5032 no version string after the -V.
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5036 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5038 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5039 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5044 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5047 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5051 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5054 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5055 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5056 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5057 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5058 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5059 I always welcome corrections!
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5063 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5069 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5072 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5073 * Documented this new switch.
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5077 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5080 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5081 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5082 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5083 no packages use the old behavior.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5087 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5090 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5091 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5095 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5098 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5102 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5108 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5111 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5115 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5118 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5119 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5120 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5124 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5130 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5133 into the source package by accident.
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5137 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5140 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5141 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5142 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5143 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5144 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5145 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5150 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5152 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5154 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5155 inspired to implement some of it.
5156 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5160 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5163 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5167 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5170 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5171 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5175 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5178 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5179 have done.) (#17598)
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5183 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5189 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5195 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5198 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5202 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5205 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5206 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5210 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5213 argument processor in perl.
5214 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5215 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5216 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5217 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5221 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5223 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5224 type directories. (#16933)
5225 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5226 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5227 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5228 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5229 are supported. (#16935)
5230 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5235 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5238 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5242 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5246 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5247 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5248 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5249 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5250 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5251 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5255 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5258 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5259 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5261 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5262 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5263 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5264 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5265 a given package, or -i or -a.
5266 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5267 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5268 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5269 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5270 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5271 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5272 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5273 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5274 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5276 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5277 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5278 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5282 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5285 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5286 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5291 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5294 does not have a section.
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5298 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5301 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5302 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5303 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5307 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * Fixed typo #16215.
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5313 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5316 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5317 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5318 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5319 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5320 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5325 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5328 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5329 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5330 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5335 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5341 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5347 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5349 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5350 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5351 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5352 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5353 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5354 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5355 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5359 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5365 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5368 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5372 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5375 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5376 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5377 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5381 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5384 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5388 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5394 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5397 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5401 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5404 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5408 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5414 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5417 postinst, postrm, etc.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5421 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5427 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5430 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5431 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5432 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5433 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5434 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5438 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5441 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5442 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5446 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5449 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5453 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5456 installing package files into.
5457 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5462 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5466 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5470 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5476 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5479 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5483 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5486 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5487 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5488 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5489 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5493 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5495 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5496 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5497 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5498 multiple binary packages.
5499 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5500 should rebuild them with this version.
5501 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5505 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5507 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5508 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5512 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5515 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5519 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5522 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5523 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5524 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5525 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5526 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5527 debian/README.debian.
5528 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5529 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5530 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5531 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5532 in a few situations.)
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5536 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5542 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5548 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5550 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5551 * Fixed several man pages.
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5555 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5558 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5559 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5563 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5566 is ready for general use.
5567 * Added man pages for all commands.
5568 * Multiple binary package support.
5569 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5570 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5571 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5573 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5574 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5575 auto-installed as parameters.
5576 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5578 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5581 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5582 the package build directory it is to act on.
5583 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5584 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5585 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5589 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5591 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5592 ready to replace debstd.
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400