1 debhelper (7.4.12) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:00:22 -0500
7 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
11 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
12 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
13 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
14 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
15 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
16 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
17 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
18 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
19 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
23 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
26 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
27 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
28 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
29 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
33 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Typo. Closes: #558654
36 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
37 installed. Closes: #558782
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
41 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
44 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
45 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
46 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
47 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
48 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
52 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
54 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
55 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
56 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
57 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
61 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
64 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
65 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
69 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
71 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
75 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
77 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
78 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
79 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
80 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
81 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
82 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
83 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
84 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
85 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
86 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
87 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
88 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
89 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
90 time soon.) Closes: #554509
91 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
93 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
94 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
95 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
96 document id. Closes: #555677
97 * Typo. Closes: #555659
98 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
99 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
100 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
101 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
103 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
104 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
105 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
110 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
113 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
114 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
115 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
116 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
117 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
118 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
119 translation (#494300 part 2)
122 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
124 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
125 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
126 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
127 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
128 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
132 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
135 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
136 (It was only run once due to logging.)
137 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
138 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
139 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
140 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
141 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
142 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
143 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
144 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
145 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
146 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
150 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
153 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
154 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
157 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
158 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
162 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
165 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
166 flag with arch all/any packages.
167 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
168 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
169 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
170 situation. Closes: #540794
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
174 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
178 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
179 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
180 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
181 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
182 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
185 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
186 the default. Closes: #538201
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
191 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
193 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
195 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
196 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
197 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
198 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
199 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
201 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
202 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
203 * Above Closes: #491117
204 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
209 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
215 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
216 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
217 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
221 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
224 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
225 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
226 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
227 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
228 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
233 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
235 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
236 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
237 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
241 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
243 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
247 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
249 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
250 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
252 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
253 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
254 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
258 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
260 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
261 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
265 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
271 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
273 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
274 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
275 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
280 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
282 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
286 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
289 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
290 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
291 created by using `python' first during build and install.
293 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
298 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
300 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
304 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
306 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
307 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
311 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
313 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
317 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
319 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
323 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
325 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
326 contributed by Modestas Vainius
327 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
328 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
329 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
330 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
331 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
332 that support it. Closes: #480577
333 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
334 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
335 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
337 - Adds support for cmake.
338 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
339 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
341 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
343 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
344 that use them. The options are:
345 --sourcedir, --destdir
346 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
347 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
348 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
349 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
350 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
354 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
360 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
362 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
363 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
364 default. Closes: #537140
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
368 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
371 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
372 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
376 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
379 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
383 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
386 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
390 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
393 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
395 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
396 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
397 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
401 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
404 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
405 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
406 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
410 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
413 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
414 warning or deprecation message.
415 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
416 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
417 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
418 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
419 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
420 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
421 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
422 Closes: #534639, #357434
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
426 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
432 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
435 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
436 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
437 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
438 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
440 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
441 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
442 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
446 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
452 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
459 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
462 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
466 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
470 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
471 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
473 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
474 file support. Closes: #494914
475 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
479 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
482 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
483 parameters. Closes: #527256
484 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
485 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
486 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
490 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
494 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
495 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
496 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
500 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
503 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
504 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
505 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
509 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
512 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
513 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
515 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
516 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
517 by triggers). Closes: #521181
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
521 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
525 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
529 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
532 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
533 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
534 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
535 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
540 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
546 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
549 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
550 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
551 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
552 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
553 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
555 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
556 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
557 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
558 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
559 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
560 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
564 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
567 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
568 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
569 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
570 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
571 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
573 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
577 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
579 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
583 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
585 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
586 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
587 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
588 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
589 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
590 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
591 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
592 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
593 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
594 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
595 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
599 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
601 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
602 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
604 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
605 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
606 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
607 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
609 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
610 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
614 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
616 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
617 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
618 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
619 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
620 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
621 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
622 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
624 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
625 that uses them. Affected options are:
626 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
627 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
628 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
629 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
630 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
631 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
632 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
633 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
634 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
635 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
636 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
637 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
641 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
648 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
654 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
656 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
657 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
659 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
660 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
661 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
662 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
663 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
665 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
667 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
668 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
669 rules (see bug #509756).
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
673 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
679 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
680 * Typo. Closes: #493062
681 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
682 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
686 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
689 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
690 empty files. Closes: #490937
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
694 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
700 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
707 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
710 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
711 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
712 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
713 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
718 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
720 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
721 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
722 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
723 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
727 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
730 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
731 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
732 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
733 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
734 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
738 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
745 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
747 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
748 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
749 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
750 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
751 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
752 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
753 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
754 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
755 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
756 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
760 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
762 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
763 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
764 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
765 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
766 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
768 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
769 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
770 breaking backwards compatibility.
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
774 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
777 message in perl 5.10.
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
781 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
787 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Convert copyright file to new format.
790 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
794 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
797 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
801 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
804 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
805 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
806 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
807 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
808 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
809 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
810 logging by dh_listpackages.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
814 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
817 run and there are no packages of that type.
818 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
819 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
820 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
821 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
823 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
824 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
828 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
830 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
831 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
832 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
836 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
839 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
840 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
842 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
843 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
844 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
845 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
846 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
847 planned but not yet implemented.)
848 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
849 if the Makefile has such a target.
850 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
851 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
852 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
853 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
854 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
855 but not yet implemented.)
856 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
857 recommended default, especially when using dh.
858 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
859 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
860 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
862 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
864 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
865 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
867 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
868 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
869 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
874 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
877 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
878 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
882 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
884 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
885 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
886 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
890 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
896 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
902 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
905 just those installed by the program.
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
909 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
912 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
913 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
917 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
920 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
921 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
922 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
923 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
927 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
930 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
931 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
935 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
938 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
939 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
943 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
946 with policy. Closes: #461392
947 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
948 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
949 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
950 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
951 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
955 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
958 Closes: #460340, #460351
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
962 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
965 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
966 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
967 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
968 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
972 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
974 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
975 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
976 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
977 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
978 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
979 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
980 package build directory won't work.
981 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
982 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
983 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
984 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
985 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
986 mode. Closes: #459426
987 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
992 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
995 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
999 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1003 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1004 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1005 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1006 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1007 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1008 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1012 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1015 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1016 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1017 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1018 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1022 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1025 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1026 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1027 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1028 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1029 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1033 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1036 debian/package.triggers files.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1040 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1043 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1047 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1050 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1051 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1052 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1053 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1058 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1061 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1065 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1068 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1069 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1071 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1076 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1080 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1081 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1082 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1086 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1093 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1100 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1103 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1105 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1106 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1107 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1109 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1110 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1111 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1115 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1118 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1119 * Update urls to web page.
1120 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1121 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1122 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1123 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1127 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1130 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1131 - typo in alternatives call
1132 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1134 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1135 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1139 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1142 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1147 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1153 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1159 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1162 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1164 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1165 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1166 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1167 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1168 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1169 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1170 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1171 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1172 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1173 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1174 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1178 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1181 package install. Closes: #415717
1182 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1183 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1184 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1185 script and then remove the python files.
1186 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1187 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1188 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1189 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1190 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1191 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1192 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1193 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1194 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1195 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1196 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1197 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1198 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1202 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Correct typo in french translation
1208 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1209 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1211 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1213 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1214 Closes: #406921, #381940
1215 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1217 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1218 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1219 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1220 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1221 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1222 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1223 specified). Closes: #381851
1224 * Misc minor changes.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1228 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1235 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1236 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1240 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1246 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1247 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1250 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1251 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1253 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1254 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1255 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1256 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1260 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1263 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1266 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1270 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1276 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1282 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1283 a difficult situation.
1284 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1285 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1286 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1287 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1288 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1289 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1290 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1291 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1292 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1293 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1297 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Non-maintainer upload.
1300 * Update of dh_python
1301 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1302 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1304 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1305 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1306 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1307 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1308 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1310 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1312 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Non-maintainer upload.
1315 * Update of dh_python
1316 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1317 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1318 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1319 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1320 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1321 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1322 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1323 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1324 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1325 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1327 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1328 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1329 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1330 the not too-distant future).
1331 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1332 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1333 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1334 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1335 thus made the build fail.
1337 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1339 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Non-maintainer upload.
1342 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1344 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1346 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1349 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1350 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1351 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1352 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1353 package. Closes: #301424
1354 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1355 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1356 fonts). Closes: #372686
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1360 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1366 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1367 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1368 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1369 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1370 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1371 above, but already depends on that.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1375 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1378 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1379 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1380 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1381 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1382 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1386 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1392 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1398 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1399 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1403 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1406 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1410 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1414 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1415 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1416 new version (0.24.1).
1417 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1418 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1421 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1422 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1423 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1424 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1425 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1426 new directory on their own.
1427 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1428 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1432 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1435 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1436 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1437 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1438 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1442 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1445 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1446 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1447 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1448 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1449 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1453 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1459 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1463 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1464 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1468 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1469 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1473 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1475 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1476 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1478 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1479 ignored. Closes: #337664
1481 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1486 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1492 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1497 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1498 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1499 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1500 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1501 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1502 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1503 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1507 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1510 version. Closes: #350607
1511 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1512 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1513 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1514 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1518 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1521 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1522 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1523 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1527 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1534 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1540 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1543 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1547 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1550 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1551 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1552 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1553 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1554 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1555 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1559 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1562 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1563 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1568 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1571 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1575 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1578 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1582 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1585 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1586 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1587 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1588 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1589 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1590 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1594 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1598 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1599 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1600 link. Closes: #346405
1601 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1603 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1604 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1605 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1606 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1607 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1608 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1609 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1613 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1620 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1626 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1629 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1633 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1636 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1641 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1645 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1646 installed. Closes: #342033
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1650 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1653 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1654 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1655 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1660 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1666 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1672 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1676 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1677 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1678 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1682 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1685 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1690 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1697 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1703 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1706 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1707 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1708 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1709 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1710 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1711 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1712 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1714 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1718 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1721 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1722 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1726 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1729 in standard man dirs.
1730 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1734 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1740 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1743 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1748 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1755 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1762 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1765 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1766 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1770 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1773 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1774 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1775 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1777 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1779 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1785 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1791 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1794 mode. Closes: #324161
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1798 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1801 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1802 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1803 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1804 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1809 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1812 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1813 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1814 is necesary for sanity.
1815 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1816 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1821 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1823 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1824 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1828 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1831 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1835 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1841 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1844 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1845 released, so use at your own risk.
1846 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1847 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1849 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1850 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1851 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1852 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1853 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1854 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1855 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1856 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1857 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1858 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1859 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1860 including twice per config file line now..
1861 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1862 and simplfy the rules file.
1863 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1864 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1865 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1867 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1868 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1872 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1875 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1879 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1882 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1886 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1889 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1893 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1896 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1897 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1898 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1899 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1900 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1901 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1905 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1908 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1909 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1910 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1915 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1918 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1919 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1924 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1927 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1928 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1929 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1934 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1937 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1938 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1939 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1943 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1949 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1956 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1959 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1960 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1961 unknown. Closes: #282924
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1965 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1972 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Spanish man page updates.
1975 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1980 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1986 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1989 * dh_desktop: reindent
1990 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1991 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1995 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2001 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2003 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2007 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2009 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2013 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2016 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2017 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2021 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2027 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2033 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2040 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2043 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2047 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2050 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2051 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2052 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2053 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2054 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2055 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2057 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2058 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2059 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2060 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2061 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2062 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2063 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2064 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2065 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2066 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2067 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2068 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2069 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2070 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2071 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2072 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2076 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2083 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2086 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2090 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2093 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2097 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2100 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2104 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2107 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2111 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2117 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2123 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2129 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2132 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2133 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2134 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2138 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2141 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2145 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2148 but occasionally right and necessary.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2152 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2155 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2156 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2157 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2158 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2159 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2163 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2166 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2168 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2169 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2170 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2171 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2172 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2173 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2174 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2175 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2176 postinst scripts for udebs.
2177 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2181 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2184 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2186 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2187 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2191 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2197 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2204 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2211 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2214 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2218 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2221 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2225 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2228 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2231 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2232 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2236 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2242 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2245 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2249 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2252 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2253 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2254 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2256 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2258 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2259 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2260 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2264 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2267 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2272 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2275 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2276 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2277 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2282 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2288 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2297 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2298 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2299 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2300 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2301 associated -dbg packages.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2305 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2308 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2312 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2315 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2319 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2322 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2326 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2329 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2337 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2344 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2349 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2352 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2356 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2360 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2361 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2362 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2363 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2364 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2365 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2366 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2367 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2368 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2369 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2373 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2376 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2381 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2384 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2385 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2389 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2392 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2393 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2398 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2401 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2405 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2408 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2412 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2415 out section number. Closes: #204731
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2419 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2426 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2432 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2438 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2441 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2442 removal. Closes: #204286
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2446 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2449 renaming. Closes: #203548
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2453 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2456 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2457 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2461 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2467 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2473 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2479 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2482 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2483 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2484 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2491 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2492 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2496 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2509 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2512 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2517 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2520 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2524 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2527 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2529 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2530 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2534 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2537 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2542 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2545 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2549 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2555 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2557 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2561 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2564 it break hard links (see #188663).
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2568 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2571 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2575 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2581 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2585 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2586 debconf-mergetemplates
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2590 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2593 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2597 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2600 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2604 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2607 * Update debhelper(1).
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2611 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2614 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2615 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2616 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2617 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2618 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2622 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2625 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2626 the shell. Closes: #178524
2627 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2631 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2634 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2638 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2641 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2645 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2648 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2649 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2650 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2651 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2656 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2659 files from installation.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2663 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2666 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2667 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2671 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2674 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2678 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2681 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2685 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2691 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2697 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2701 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2702 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2704 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2708 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2711 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2712 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2713 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2714 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2718 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2721 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2725 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2728 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2729 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2733 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2737 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2742 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2748 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2752 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2753 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2754 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2759 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2762 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2763 practice. Closes: #163303
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2767 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2773 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2780 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2783 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2785 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2786 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2787 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2788 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2789 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2793 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2796 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2801 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2807 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2814 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2817 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2822 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2828 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2834 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2840 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2847 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2850 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2851 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2852 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2853 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2858 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2864 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2871 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2874 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2875 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2879 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2882 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2883 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2884 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2885 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2886 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2890 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2893 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2895 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2900 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2903 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2907 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2910 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2911 right thing. Closes: #150644
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2915 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Stupid, evil typo.
2918 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2922 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2929 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2932 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2933 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2938 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2944 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2947 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2951 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2954 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2955 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2960 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2963 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2967 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2973 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2976 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2977 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2981 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2987 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * Removing perl warning message.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2993 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2996 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2997 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2998 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2999 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3000 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3001 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3002 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3003 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3007 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3013 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3020 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3023 debconf-mergetemplate.
3024 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3025 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3029 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3032 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3033 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3034 dh_install, which ...
3035 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3036 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3037 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3038 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3039 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3040 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3041 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3042 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3043 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3044 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3045 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3046 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3047 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3048 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3049 other minor changes.
3050 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3051 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3052 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3053 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3054 course there's -X ..)
3055 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3056 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3057 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3059 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3060 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3061 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3062 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3063 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3068 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3074 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3077 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3081 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3087 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3093 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3099 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3105 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3108 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3109 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3110 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3111 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3113 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3114 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3118 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3124 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3127 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3131 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3134 upset. Closes: #131322
3136 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3138 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3141 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3142 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3143 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3144 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3145 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3146 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3147 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3148 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3149 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3150 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3151 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3152 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3153 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3154 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3155 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3157 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3161 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3164 - Better indenting of generated code.
3165 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3169 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3173 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3174 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3175 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3176 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3177 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3178 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3179 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3183 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3186 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3190 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3193 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3194 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3195 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3196 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3197 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3198 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3199 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3200 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3201 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3202 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3203 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3204 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3205 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3206 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3207 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3212 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3218 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3221 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3222 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3226 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3229 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3230 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3234 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3240 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3243 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3244 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3245 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3246 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3247 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3252 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3258 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3261 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3265 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3268 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3273 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3279 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3282 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3286 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3292 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3296 Also some indentation fixes.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3300 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3303 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3304 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3305 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3306 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3307 Closes: #106514, #85520
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3311 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3317 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3323 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3329 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3335 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3341 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3344 change it in debhelper v4..
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3348 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3354 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3357 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3361 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3364 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3368 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3374 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3377 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3378 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3379 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3380 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3381 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3382 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3383 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3384 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3385 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3386 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3387 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3388 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3392 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3395 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3399 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3406 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3409 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3410 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3411 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3412 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3413 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3414 program those options go to. So, for example,
3415 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3416 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3417 something complex. Closes: #89311
3418 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3422 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3425 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3426 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3427 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3431 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3434 through loop. Closes: #98598
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3438 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Missing semi-colon.
3441 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3442 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3446 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3449 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3450 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3451 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3455 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3458 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3459 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3463 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3466 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3470 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3473 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3474 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3478 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3481 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3482 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3483 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3487 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3490 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3491 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3492 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3496 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3499 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3503 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3509 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3515 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3521 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3527 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3530 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3534 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3537 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3538 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3539 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3540 followed. Closes: #85483
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3544 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3546 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3547 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3548 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3552 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3555 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3556 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3557 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3558 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3559 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3560 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3561 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3562 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3563 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3564 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3565 Closes: #88464, #77743
3566 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3567 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3568 us to deal with that gracefully.
3569 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3571 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3572 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3573 a while, Closes: #51225
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3577 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3583 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3586 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3590 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3594 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3599 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3602 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3603 don't make packlist files.
3604 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3605 debhelper coding standards.
3606 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3607 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3611 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3614 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3618 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3621 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3622 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3623 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3624 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3625 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3626 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3627 but is mildly deprecated.
3628 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3629 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3630 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3631 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3632 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3633 switching to statoverrides..
3634 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3635 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3636 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3637 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3638 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3639 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3641 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3642 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3643 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3644 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3645 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3646 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3647 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3648 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3649 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3651 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3652 variable names, pod man pages).
3653 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3654 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3655 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3656 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3657 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3658 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3659 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3663 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3669 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3676 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3679 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3683 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3685 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3686 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3687 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3691 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3693 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3694 they were previously ignored.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3698 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3700 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3701 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3705 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3707 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3708 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3709 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3713 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3715 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3719 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3721 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3722 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3726 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3728 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3729 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3730 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3731 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3732 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3733 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3734 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3735 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3736 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3737 it is an obsolete program.
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3741 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3743 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3747 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3751 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3753 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3757 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3759 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3761 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3763 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3767 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3773 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * typo: Closes, #78567
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3779 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3785 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3791 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3794 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3795 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3796 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3797 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3798 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3802 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3805 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3810 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3813 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3814 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3815 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3816 backwards-compatibility.
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3820 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3823 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3824 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3825 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3826 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3827 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3828 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3830 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3831 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3832 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3834 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3836 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3837 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3838 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3839 should now be raised to severity important..
3840 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3841 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3845 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3848 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3853 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3859 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3865 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3871 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3878 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3881 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3882 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3883 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3884 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3888 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3894 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3897 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3898 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3899 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3900 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3901 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3902 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3907 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3910 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3914 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3920 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3923 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3928 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3931 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3932 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3933 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3934 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3938 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3942 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3945 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3948 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3949 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3952 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3954 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3955 the TODO entry about it.
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3959 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3966 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3969 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3970 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3974 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3977 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3978 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3979 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3980 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3984 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3990 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3997 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4000 (this appears to be logal).
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4004 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4007 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4008 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4009 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4010 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4014 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4020 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4023 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4024 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4025 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4026 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4030 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4036 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4039 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4043 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4050 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4053 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4054 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4055 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4060 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4067 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4073 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4076 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4077 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4078 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4079 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4080 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4081 notice until v2 is complete.
4082 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4083 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4084 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4085 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4086 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4087 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4089 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4090 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4091 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4092 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4096 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4102 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4109 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4112 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4116 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4123 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4126 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4127 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4128 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4129 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4134 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4137 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4138 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4139 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4144 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4147 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4148 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4152 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4155 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4159 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4162 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4166 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4176 depend on the build and install targets.
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4180 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4183 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4194 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4200 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4206 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4209 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4210 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4211 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4212 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4213 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4214 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4216 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4217 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4218 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4219 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4220 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4221 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4222 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4226 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4232 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4238 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4241 right place. Closes: #55065
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4245 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4252 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4254 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4255 * Copyright date updates.
4257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4259 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4261 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4262 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4267 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4273 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4280 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4286 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4292 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4298 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4301 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4302 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4303 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4304 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4305 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4306 bits until all files have been registered.
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4310 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_installmanpages:
4313 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4314 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4315 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4316 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4317 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4318 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4319 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4320 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4321 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4322 otherwise change the result at all.
4324 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4325 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4326 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4327 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4328 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4333 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4339 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4342 act on files that don't exist.
4343 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4344 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4345 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4347 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4348 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4349 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4350 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4354 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4360 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4366 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4369 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4373 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4376 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4378 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4379 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4380 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4384 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4387 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4388 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4389 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4390 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4391 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4392 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4393 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4395 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4397 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4401 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4408 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4414 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4420 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4423 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4427 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4433 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4439 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4442 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4443 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4444 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4445 I made some changes, though:
4446 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4447 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4448 that is a clear violation of policy.
4449 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4450 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4451 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4452 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4453 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4454 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4455 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4456 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4457 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4459 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4463 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4469 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4472 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4476 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4479 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4480 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4485 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4491 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4498 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4501 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4502 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4503 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4504 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4505 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4506 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4507 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4511 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4517 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4521 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4522 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4526 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4532 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4535 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4539 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4542 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4543 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4547 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4549 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4554 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4558 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4562 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4565 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4566 for the dependancies to be generated.
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4570 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4573 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4577 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4579 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4580 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4581 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4582 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4587 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4590 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4591 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4595 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4601 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4607 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4610 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4614 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4620 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4623 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4624 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4625 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4626 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4627 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4628 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4629 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4630 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4631 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4632 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4633 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4634 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4638 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4641 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4642 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4644 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4645 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4646 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4647 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4648 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4649 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4651 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4652 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4656 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4659 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4663 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4670 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4673 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4678 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4681 for building debhelper.
4682 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4686 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4693 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4696 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4700 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4703 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4704 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4705 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4706 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4707 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4708 it's always available.
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4712 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4715 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4716 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4717 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4721 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4724 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4725 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4729 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4735 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4738 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4742 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4748 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4751 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4752 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4753 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4757 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4760 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4765 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4768 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4769 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4771 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4772 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4776 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4782 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4788 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4791 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4795 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4798 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4799 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4801 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4805 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4808 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4809 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4810 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4814 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4817 things if CDPATH is set.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4821 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4827 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4829 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4830 seems to make sense for the transition.
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4834 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4837 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4842 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4845 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4846 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4850 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4853 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4857 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4860 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4861 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4862 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4863 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4867 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4873 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4876 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4877 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4878 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4879 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4880 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4881 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4882 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4883 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4884 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4885 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4890 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4893 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4894 * README: mention doc/v2
4895 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4896 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4900 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4902 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4903 be using this script RSN.
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4907 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4910 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4911 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4912 more than 1 init script.
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4916 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4919 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4923 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * Changed perl version detection.
4926 * Changed call to find.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4930 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4933 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4935 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4940 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * Really include dh_installpam.
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4946 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4949 * Wrote man page for same.
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4953 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4956 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4957 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4962 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4964 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4969 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4972 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4973 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4974 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4975 x bit was being set!
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4979 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4982 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4983 well. (Closes: 38900)
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4987 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4990 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4991 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4995 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5001 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5008 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5014 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5017 help from Julian Gilbey.
5018 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5019 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5020 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5021 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5022 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5023 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5024 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5029 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5035 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5042 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5048 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5054 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5057 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5061 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5064 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5068 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5071 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5075 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5077 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5081 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5084 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5088 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5094 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5100 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5103 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5104 may be deleted. (#35845)
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5108 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * Various man page enhancements.
5111 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5116 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5119 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5120 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5124 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5127 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5128 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5129 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5131 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5132 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5137 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5143 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * Another very minor typo fix.
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5149 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * Very minor typo fix.
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5155 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5158 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5159 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5163 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5169 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5172 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5173 variables properly (#34850).
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5177 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5183 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5186 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5187 (automatically generated by build process).
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5191 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5193 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5197 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5200 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5201 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5203 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5207 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5210 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5214 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * README: minor typo fix.
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5220 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5223 leave it at that. :-)
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5227 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5233 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5239 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5242 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5243 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5244 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5248 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5251 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5255 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5258 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5262 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5265 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5266 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5267 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5268 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5272 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5275 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5276 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5277 Craig Small for spotting this.
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5281 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5284 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5285 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5289 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5295 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5298 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5302 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5304 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5305 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5306 working on the last version of debhelper.
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5310 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5313 being made. (#23255)
5315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5317 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5319 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5323 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5326 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5330 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5333 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5334 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5335 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5336 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5340 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5343 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5344 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5345 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5346 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5348 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5349 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5351 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5356 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5362 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5368 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5371 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5372 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5373 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5374 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5375 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5376 suidregister actually supports it.
5377 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5378 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5382 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5389 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5392 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5393 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5394 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5395 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5396 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5397 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5398 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5402 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5404 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5405 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5409 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5412 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5413 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5414 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5415 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5419 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5421 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5422 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5424 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5425 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5426 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5427 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5428 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5429 effect, either. (#30118)
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5433 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5439 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5442 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5443 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5447 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5453 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5456 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5457 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5458 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5459 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5463 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5466 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5467 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5471 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5477 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5480 packages, painlessly.
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5484 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5490 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5496 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5502 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * The perl conversion is complete.
5506 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5508 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5509 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5510 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5515 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5517 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5518 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5519 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5520 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5524 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5527 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5529 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5531 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5532 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5536 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5539 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5540 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5544 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5550 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5553 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5554 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5555 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5556 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5557 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5561 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5564 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5565 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5566 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5567 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5571 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5574 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5578 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5581 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5582 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5583 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5584 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5585 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5586 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5587 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5588 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5592 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5598 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5601 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5602 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5603 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5608 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5610 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5611 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5615 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5618 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5622 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5625 sections of shared libraries.
5626 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5627 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5628 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5629 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5630 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5631 things you don't want them to.
5632 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5633 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5637 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5639 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5640 shared libraries. (#26414)
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5644 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5646 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5647 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5648 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5649 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5653 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5655 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5657 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5659 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5660 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5661 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5662 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5663 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5667 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5670 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5674 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5677 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5678 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5683 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5686 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5690 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5693 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5694 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5695 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5696 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5697 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5699 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5700 remove debian/files properly.
5701 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5702 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5703 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5704 * Removed bogus menu file.
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5708 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5711 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5715 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5717 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5718 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5719 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5720 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5721 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5722 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5723 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5727 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5730 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5731 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5732 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5733 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5737 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5744 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5747 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5748 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5750 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5751 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5752 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5753 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5754 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5755 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5759 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5761 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5762 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5763 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5764 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5765 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5766 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5767 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5768 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5769 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5770 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5771 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5772 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5773 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5774 passed any switches.
5775 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5779 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5781 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5782 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5783 at all for a long while.
5784 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5785 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5786 large chunks in the process.
5787 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5788 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5789 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5794 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5797 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5799 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5804 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5807 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5808 that don't always have the same files in them.
5809 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5810 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5811 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5815 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5817 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5819 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5820 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5821 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5822 updating 27 man pages.
5823 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5824 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5825 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5826 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5827 programs act on. (#25247)
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5831 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5835 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5836 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5837 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5838 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5839 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5840 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5845 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5852 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5859 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5861 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5862 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5866 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5872 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5875 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5876 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5877 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5878 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5879 package by accident.
5880 * Is version 1.0 next?
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5884 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5887 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5888 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5892 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5895 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5896 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5897 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5898 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5899 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5901 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5906 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5909 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5910 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5914 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5917 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5921 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5924 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5925 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5930 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5932 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5936 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5939 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5940 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5945 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5947 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5951 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5953 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5954 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5955 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5956 past week. Thanks, guys!
5958 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5959 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5960 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5961 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5962 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5963 would do in the same situation.
5964 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5965 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5967 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5969 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5970 permissions changed.
5971 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5972 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5973 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5974 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5975 files are treated identically.
5976 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5977 * Minor man page fixes.
5978 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5979 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5980 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5984 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5987 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5988 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5989 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5990 use -X multiple times, too.
5991 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5992 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5996 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5999 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6000 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6004 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6007 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6011 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6013 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6014 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6015 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6016 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6017 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6018 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6019 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6020 shape if you're starting a new package.
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6024 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6027 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6031 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6033 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6034 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6035 because of missing symlinks.
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6039 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6045 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6048 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6049 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6050 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6051 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6052 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6054 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6055 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6059 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6061 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6062 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6063 to be changed after the fact :-)
6064 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6068 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6070 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6071 no version string after the -V.
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6075 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6077 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6078 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6083 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6085 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6086 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6090 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6092 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6093 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6094 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6095 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6096 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6097 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6098 I always welcome corrections!
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6102 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6108 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6110 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6111 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6112 * Documented this new switch.
6114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6116 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6118 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6119 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6120 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6121 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6122 no packages use the old behavior.
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6126 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6129 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6130 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6134 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6137 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6141 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6147 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6149 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6150 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6154 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6156 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6157 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6158 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6159 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6163 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6165 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6169 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6171 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6172 into the source package by accident.
6174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6176 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6178 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6179 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6180 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6181 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6182 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6183 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6184 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6189 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6191 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6193 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6194 inspired to implement some of it.
6195 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6199 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6201 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6202 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6206 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6208 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6209 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6210 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6214 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6216 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6217 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6218 have done.) (#17598)
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6222 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6228 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6234 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6236 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6237 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6241 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6243 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6244 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6245 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6249 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6251 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6252 argument processor in perl.
6253 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6254 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6255 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6256 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6260 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6262 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6263 type directories. (#16933)
6264 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6265 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6266 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6267 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6268 are supported. (#16935)
6269 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6274 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6276 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6277 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6281 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6283 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6285 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6286 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6287 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6288 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6289 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6290 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6294 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6296 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6297 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6298 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6300 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6301 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6302 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6303 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6304 a given package, or -i or -a.
6305 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6306 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6307 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6308 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6309 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6310 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6311 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6312 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6313 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6315 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6316 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6317 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6321 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6323 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6324 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6325 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6330 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6333 does not have a section.
6335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6337 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6339 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6340 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6341 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6342 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6346 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6348 * Fixed typo #16215.
6350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6352 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6354 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6355 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6356 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6357 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6358 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6359 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6364 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6366 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6367 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6368 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6369 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6374 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6376 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6380 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6382 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6386 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6388 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6389 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6390 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6391 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6392 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6393 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6394 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6398 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6400 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6404 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6406 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6407 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6411 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6413 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6414 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6415 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6416 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6420 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6422 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6423 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6427 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6429 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6433 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6435 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6436 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6440 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6442 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6443 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6447 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6449 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6453 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6455 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6456 postinst, postrm, etc.
6458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6460 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6462 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6466 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6468 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6469 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6470 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6471 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6472 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6473 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6477 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6479 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6480 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6481 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6485 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6487 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6488 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6492 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6494 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6495 installing package files into.
6496 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6501 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6505 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6509 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6515 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6517 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6518 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6522 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6524 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6525 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6526 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6527 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6528 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6532 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6534 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6535 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6536 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6537 multiple binary packages.
6538 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6539 should rebuild them with this version.
6540 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6544 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6546 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6547 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6551 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6553 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6554 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6558 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6560 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6561 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6562 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6563 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6564 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6565 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6566 debian/README.debian.
6567 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6568 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6569 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6570 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6571 in a few situations.)
6573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6575 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6577 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6581 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6587 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6589 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6590 * Fixed several man pages.
6592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6594 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6596 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6597 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6598 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6602 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6604 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6605 is ready for general use.
6606 * Added man pages for all commands.
6607 * Multiple binary package support.
6608 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6609 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6610 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6612 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6613 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6614 auto-installed as parameters.
6615 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6617 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6620 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6621 the package build directory it is to act on.
6622 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6623 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6624 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6628 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6630 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6631 ready to replace debstd.
6633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400