1 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
4 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
5 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
6 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
10 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
12 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
13 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
14 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
16 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
17 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
18 by triggers). Closes: #521181
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
22 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
26 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
30 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
33 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
34 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
35 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
36 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
41 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
47 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
50 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
51 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
52 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
53 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
54 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
56 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
57 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
58 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
59 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
60 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
61 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
65 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
68 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
69 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
70 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
71 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
72 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
74 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
78 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
80 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
84 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
86 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
87 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
88 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
89 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
90 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
91 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
92 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
93 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
94 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
95 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
96 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
100 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
102 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
103 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
105 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
106 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
107 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
108 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
110 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
111 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
115 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
117 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
118 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
119 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
120 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
121 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
122 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
123 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
125 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
126 that uses them. Affected options are:
127 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
128 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
129 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
130 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
131 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
132 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
133 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
134 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
135 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
136 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
137 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
138 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
142 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
149 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
155 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
157 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
158 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
160 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
161 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
162 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
163 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
164 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
166 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
168 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
169 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
170 rules (see bug #509756).
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
174 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
180 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
181 * Typo. Closes: #493062
182 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
183 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
187 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
190 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
191 empty files. Closes: #490937
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
195 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
201 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
208 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
211 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
212 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
213 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
214 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
219 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
221 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
222 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
223 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
224 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
228 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
231 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
232 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
233 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
234 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
235 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
239 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
246 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
248 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
249 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
250 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
251 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
252 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
253 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
254 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
255 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
256 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
257 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
261 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
264 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
265 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
266 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
267 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
269 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
270 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
271 breaking backwards compatability.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
275 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
278 message in perl 5.10.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
282 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
288 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Convert copyright file to new format.
291 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
295 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
298 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
302 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
305 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
306 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
307 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
308 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
309 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
310 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
311 logging by dh_listpackages.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
315 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
318 run and there are no packages of that type.
319 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
320 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
321 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
322 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
324 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
325 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
329 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
331 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
332 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
333 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
337 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
340 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
341 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
343 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
344 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
345 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
346 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
347 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
348 planned but not yet implemented.)
349 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
350 if the Makefile has such a target.
351 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
352 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
353 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
354 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
355 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
356 but not yet implemented.)
357 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
358 recommended default, especially when using dh.
359 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
360 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
361 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
363 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
365 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
366 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
368 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
369 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
370 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
375 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
377 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
378 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
379 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
383 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
385 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
386 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
387 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
391 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
393 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
397 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
403 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
406 just those installed by the program.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
410 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
413 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
414 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
418 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
421 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
422 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
423 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
424 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
428 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
431 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
432 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
436 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
439 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
440 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
444 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
447 with policy. Closes: #461392
448 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
449 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
450 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
451 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
452 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
456 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
459 Closes: #460340, #460351
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
463 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
466 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
467 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
468 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
469 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
473 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
475 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
476 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
477 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
478 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
479 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
480 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
481 package build directory won't work.
482 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
483 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
484 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
485 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
486 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
487 mode. Closes: #459426
488 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
493 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
496 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
500 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
504 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
505 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
506 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
507 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
508 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
509 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
513 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
516 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
517 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
518 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
519 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
523 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
526 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
527 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
528 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
529 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
530 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
534 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
537 debian/package.triggers files.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
541 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
544 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
548 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
551 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
552 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
553 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
554 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
559 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
562 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
566 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
569 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
570 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
572 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
577 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
581 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
582 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
583 * Typo. Closes: #441272
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
587 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
594 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
596 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
601 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
604 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
606 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
607 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
608 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
610 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
611 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
612 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
616 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
619 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
620 * Update urls to web page.
621 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
623 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
624 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
628 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
631 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
632 - typo in alternatives call
633 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
635 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
636 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
640 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
643 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
648 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
654 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
660 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
663 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
665 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
666 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
667 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
668 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
669 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
670 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
671 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
672 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
673 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
674 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
675 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
679 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
681 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
682 package install. Closes: #415717
683 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
684 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
685 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
686 script and then remove the python files.
687 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
688 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
689 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
690 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
691 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
692 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
693 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
694 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
695 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
696 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
697 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
698 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
699 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
703 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Correct typo in french translation
709 * Typo. Closes: #400571
710 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
712 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
714 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
715 Closes: #406921, #381940
716 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
718 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
719 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
720 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
721 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
722 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
723 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
724 specified). Closes: #381851
725 * Misc minor changes.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
729 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
732 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
736 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
737 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
741 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
747 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
748 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
751 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
752 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
754 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
755 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
756 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
757 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
761 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
764 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
767 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
771 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
777 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
783 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
784 a difficult situation.
785 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
786 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
787 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
788 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
789 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
790 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
791 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
792 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
793 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
794 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
798 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
800 * Non-maintainer upload.
801 * Update of dh_python
802 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
803 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
805 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
806 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
807 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
808 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
809 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
811 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
813 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Non-maintainer upload.
816 * Update of dh_python
817 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
818 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
819 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
820 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
821 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
822 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
823 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
824 specific python version. Closes: #373853
825 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
826 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
828 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
829 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
830 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
831 the not too-distant future).
832 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
833 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
834 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
835 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
836 thus made the build fail.
838 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
840 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Non-maintainer upload.
843 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
845 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
847 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
850 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
851 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
852 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
853 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
854 package. Closes: #301424
855 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
856 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
857 fonts). Closes: #372686
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
861 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
867 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
868 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
869 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
870 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
871 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
872 above, but already depends on that.
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
876 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
879 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
880 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
881 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
882 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
883 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
887 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
893 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
899 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
900 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
904 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
907 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
911 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
915 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
916 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
917 new version (0.24.1).
918 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
919 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
922 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
923 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
924 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
925 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
926 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
927 new directory on their own.
928 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
929 * Fix broken directory removal code.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
933 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
936 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
937 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
938 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
939 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
943 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
946 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
947 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
948 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
949 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
950 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
954 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
960 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Typo. Closes: #358904
964 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
965 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
969 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
970 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
974 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
976 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
977 || exit 0 instead of the intended
979 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
980 ignored. Closes: #337664
982 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
987 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
993 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
998 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
999 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1000 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1001 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1002 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1003 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1004 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1008 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1011 version. Closes: #350607
1012 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1013 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1014 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1015 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1019 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1022 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1023 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1024 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1028 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1035 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1041 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1044 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1048 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1051 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1052 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1053 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1054 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1055 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1056 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1060 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1063 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1064 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1069 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1072 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1076 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1079 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1083 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1086 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1087 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1088 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1089 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1090 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1091 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1095 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1099 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1100 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1101 link. Closes: #346405
1102 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1104 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1105 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1106 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1107 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1108 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1109 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1110 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1114 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1121 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1127 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1130 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1134 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1137 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1142 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1146 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1147 installed. Closes: #342033
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1151 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1154 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1155 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1156 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1161 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1167 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1173 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1177 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1178 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1179 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1183 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1186 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1191 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1198 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1204 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1207 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1208 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1209 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1210 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1211 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1212 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1213 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1215 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1219 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1222 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1223 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1227 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1230 in standard man dirs.
1231 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1235 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1241 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1244 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1249 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1256 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1263 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1266 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1267 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1271 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1274 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1275 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1276 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1278 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1280 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1286 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1292 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1295 mode. Closes: #324161
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1299 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1302 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1303 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1304 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1305 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1310 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1313 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1314 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1315 is necesary for sanity.
1316 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1317 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1322 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1324 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1325 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1329 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1332 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1336 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1342 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1345 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1346 released, so use at your own risk.
1347 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1348 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1350 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1351 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1352 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1353 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1354 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1355 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1356 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1357 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1358 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1359 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1360 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1361 including twice per config file line now..
1362 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1363 and simplfy the rules file.
1364 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1365 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1366 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1368 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1369 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1373 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1376 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1380 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1383 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1387 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1390 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1394 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1397 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1398 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1399 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1400 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1401 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1402 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1406 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1409 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1410 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1411 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1416 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1419 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1420 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1425 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1428 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1429 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1430 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1435 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1438 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1439 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1440 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1444 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1450 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1457 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1460 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1461 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1462 unknown. Closes: #282924
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1466 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1473 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Spanish man page updates.
1476 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1481 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1487 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1490 * dh_desktop: reindent
1491 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1492 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1496 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1502 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1504 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1508 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1510 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1514 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1517 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1518 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1522 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1528 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1534 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1541 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1544 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1548 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1551 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1552 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1553 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1554 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1555 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1556 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1558 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1559 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1560 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1561 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1562 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1563 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1564 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1565 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1566 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1567 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1568 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1569 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1570 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1571 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1572 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1573 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1577 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1584 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1587 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1591 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1594 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1598 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1601 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1605 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1608 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1612 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1618 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1624 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1630 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1633 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1634 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1635 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1639 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1642 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1646 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1649 but occasionally right and necessary.
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1653 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1656 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1657 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1658 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1659 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1660 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1664 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1667 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1669 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1670 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1671 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1672 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1673 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1674 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1675 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1676 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1677 postinst scripts for udebs.
1678 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1682 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1685 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1687 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1688 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1692 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1698 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1705 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1712 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1715 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1719 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1722 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1726 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1729 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1732 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1733 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1737 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1743 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1746 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1750 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1753 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1754 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1755 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1757 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1759 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1760 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1761 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1765 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1768 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1773 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1776 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1777 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1778 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1783 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1789 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1795 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1798 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1799 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1800 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1801 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1802 associated -dbg packages.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1806 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1809 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1813 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1816 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1820 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1823 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1827 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1830 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1835 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1838 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1842 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1845 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1850 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1853 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1857 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1861 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1862 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1863 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1864 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1865 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1866 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1867 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1868 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1869 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1870 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1874 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1877 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1882 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1885 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1886 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1890 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1893 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1894 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1899 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1902 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1906 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1909 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1913 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1916 out section number. Closes: #204731
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1920 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1927 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1933 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1939 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1942 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1943 removal. Closes: #204286
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1950 renaming. Closes: #203548
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1954 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1957 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1958 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1962 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1968 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1974 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1980 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1983 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1984 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1985 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1989 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1992 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1993 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1997 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2003 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2010 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2013 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2018 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2021 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2025 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2028 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2030 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2031 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2038 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2043 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2046 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2050 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2056 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2058 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2062 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2065 it break hard links (see #188663).
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2069 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2072 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2076 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2082 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2086 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2087 debconf-mergetemplates
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2091 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2094 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2098 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2101 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2105 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2108 * Update debhelper(1).
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2112 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2115 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2116 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2117 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2118 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2119 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2123 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2126 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2127 the shell. Closes: #178524
2128 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2132 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2135 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2139 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2142 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2146 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2149 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2150 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2151 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2152 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2157 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2160 files from installation.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2164 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2167 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2168 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2172 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2175 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2179 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2182 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2186 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2192 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2198 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2202 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2203 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2205 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2209 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2212 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2213 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2214 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2215 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2219 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2222 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2226 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2229 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2230 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2234 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2238 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2243 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2249 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2253 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2254 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2255 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2260 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2263 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2264 practice. Closes: #163303
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2268 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2274 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2281 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2284 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2286 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2287 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2288 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2289 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2290 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2297 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2302 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2308 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2315 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2318 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2323 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2329 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2335 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2351 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2352 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2353 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2354 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2359 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2365 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2375 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2376 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2380 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2383 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2384 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2385 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2386 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2387 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2394 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2396 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2401 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2404 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2408 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2411 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2412 right thing. Closes: #150644
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2416 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Stupid, evil typo.
2419 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2423 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2433 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2434 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2439 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2445 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2448 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2452 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2455 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2456 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2461 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2464 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2468 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2474 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2477 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2478 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2482 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Removing perl warning message.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2494 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2497 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2498 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2499 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2500 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2501 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2502 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2503 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2504 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2508 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2514 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2521 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2524 debconf-mergetemplate.
2525 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2526 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2530 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2533 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2534 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2535 dh_install, which ...
2536 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2537 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2538 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2539 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2540 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2541 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2542 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2543 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2544 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2545 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2546 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2547 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2548 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2549 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2550 other minor changes.
2551 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2552 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2553 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2554 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2555 course there's -X ..)
2556 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2557 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2558 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2560 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2561 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2562 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2563 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2564 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2569 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2575 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2578 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2582 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2588 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2594 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2600 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2606 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2609 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2610 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2611 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2612 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2614 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2615 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2619 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2625 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2628 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2632 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2635 upset. Closes: #131322
2637 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2639 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2642 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2643 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2644 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2645 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2646 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2647 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2648 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2649 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2650 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2651 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2652 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2653 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2654 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2655 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2656 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2658 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2662 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2665 - Better indenting of generated code.
2666 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2670 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2674 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2675 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2676 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2677 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2678 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2679 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2680 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2684 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2687 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2691 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2694 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2695 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2696 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2697 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2698 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2699 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2700 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2701 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2702 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2703 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2704 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2705 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2706 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2707 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2708 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2713 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2719 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2722 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2723 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2727 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2730 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2731 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2735 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2741 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2744 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2745 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2746 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2747 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2748 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2753 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2759 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2762 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2766 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2769 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2774 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2780 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2783 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2787 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2793 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2797 Also some indentation fixes.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2801 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2804 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2805 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2806 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2807 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2808 Closes: #106514, #85520
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2812 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2818 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2824 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2830 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2836 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2842 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2845 change it in debhelper v4..
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2849 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2855 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2858 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2862 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2865 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2869 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2875 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2878 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2879 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2880 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2881 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2882 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2883 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2884 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2885 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2886 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2887 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2888 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2889 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2893 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2896 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2900 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2907 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2910 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2911 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2912 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2913 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2914 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2915 program those options go to. So, for example,
2916 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2917 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2918 something complex. Closes: #89311
2919 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2923 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2926 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2927 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2928 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2932 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2935 through loop. Closes: #98598
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2939 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * Missing semi-colon.
2942 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2943 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2947 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2950 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2951 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2952 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2956 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2959 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2960 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2964 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2967 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2971 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2974 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2975 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2979 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2982 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2983 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2984 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2988 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2991 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2992 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2993 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2997 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3000 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3004 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3010 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3016 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3022 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3028 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3031 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3035 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3038 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3039 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3040 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3041 followed. Closes: #85483
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3045 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3047 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3048 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3049 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3053 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3056 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3057 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3058 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3059 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3060 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3061 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3062 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3063 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3064 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3065 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3066 Closes: #88464, #77743
3067 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3068 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3069 us to deal with that gracefully.
3070 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3072 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3073 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3074 a while, Closes: #51225
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3078 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3084 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3087 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3091 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3095 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3100 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3103 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3104 don't make packlist files.
3105 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3106 debhelper coding standards.
3107 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3108 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3112 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3115 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3119 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3122 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3123 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3124 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3125 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3126 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3127 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3128 but is mildly deprecated.
3129 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3130 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3131 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3132 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3133 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3134 switching to statoverrides..
3135 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3136 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3137 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3138 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3139 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3140 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3142 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3143 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3144 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3145 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3146 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3147 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3148 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3149 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3150 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3152 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3153 variable names, pod man pages).
3154 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3155 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3156 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3157 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3158 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3159 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3160 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3164 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3170 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3177 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3180 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3184 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3186 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3187 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3188 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3192 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3194 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3195 they were previously ignored.
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3199 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3201 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3202 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3206 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3208 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3209 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3210 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3214 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3216 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3220 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3222 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3223 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3227 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3229 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3230 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3231 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3232 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3233 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3234 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3235 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3236 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3237 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3238 it is an obsolete program.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3242 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3244 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3248 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3252 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3254 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3258 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3260 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3262 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3264 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3268 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3274 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * typo: Closes, #78567
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3280 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3286 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3292 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3295 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3296 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3297 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3298 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3299 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3303 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3306 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3311 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3314 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3315 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3316 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3317 backwards-compatability.
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3321 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3324 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3325 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3326 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3327 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3328 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3329 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3331 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3332 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3333 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3335 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3337 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3338 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3339 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3340 should now be raised to severity important..
3341 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3342 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3346 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3349 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3354 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3360 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3366 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3372 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3379 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3382 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3383 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3384 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3385 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3389 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3395 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3398 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3399 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3400 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3401 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3402 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3403 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3408 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3411 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3415 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3421 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3424 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3429 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3432 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3433 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3434 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3435 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3439 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3443 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3446 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3449 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3450 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3453 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3455 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3456 the TODO entry about it.
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3460 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3467 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3470 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3471 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3475 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3478 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3479 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3480 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3481 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3485 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3491 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3498 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3501 (this appears to be logal).
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3505 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3508 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3509 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3510 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3511 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3515 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3521 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3524 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3525 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3526 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3527 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3531 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3537 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3540 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3544 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3551 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3554 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3555 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3556 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3561 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3568 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3574 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3577 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3578 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3579 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3580 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3581 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3582 notice until v2 is complete.
3583 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3584 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3585 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3586 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3587 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3588 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3590 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3591 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3592 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3593 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3597 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3603 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3610 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3613 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3617 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3624 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3627 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3628 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3629 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3630 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3635 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3638 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3639 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3640 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3645 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3648 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3649 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3653 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3656 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3660 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3663 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3667 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3674 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3677 depend on the build and install targets.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3681 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3684 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3688 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3695 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3701 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3707 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3710 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3711 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3712 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3713 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3714 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3715 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3717 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3718 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3719 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3720 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3721 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3722 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3723 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3727 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3733 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3739 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3742 right place. Closes: #55065
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3746 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3753 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3756 * Copyright date updates.
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3760 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3763 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3768 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3774 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3781 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3787 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3793 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3799 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3802 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3803 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3804 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3805 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3806 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3807 bits until all files have been registered.
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3811 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * dh_installmanpages:
3814 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3815 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3816 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3817 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3818 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3819 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3820 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3821 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3822 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3823 otherwise change the result at all.
3825 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3826 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3827 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3828 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3829 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3834 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3840 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3843 act on files that don't exist.
3844 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3845 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3846 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3848 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3849 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3850 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3851 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3855 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3861 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3867 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3870 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3874 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3877 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3879 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3880 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3881 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3885 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3888 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3889 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3890 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3891 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3892 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3893 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3894 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3896 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3898 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3902 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3909 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3915 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3921 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3924 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3928 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3934 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3940 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3943 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3944 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3945 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3946 I made some changes, though:
3947 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3948 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3949 that is a clear violation of policy.
3950 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3951 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3952 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3953 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3954 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3955 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3956 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3957 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3958 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3960 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3964 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3970 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3973 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3977 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3980 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3981 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3986 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3992 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3999 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4002 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4003 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4004 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4005 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4006 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4007 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4008 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4012 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4018 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4022 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4023 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4027 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4033 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4036 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4040 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4043 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4044 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4048 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4050 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4055 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4059 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4063 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4066 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4067 for the dependancies to be generated.
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4071 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4074 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4078 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4081 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4082 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4083 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4088 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4091 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4092 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4096 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4102 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4108 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4111 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4115 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4121 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4124 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4125 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4126 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4127 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4128 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4129 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4130 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4131 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4132 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4133 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4134 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4135 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4139 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4142 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4143 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4145 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4146 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4147 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4148 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4149 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4150 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4152 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4153 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4157 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4160 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4164 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4171 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4173 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4174 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4179 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4182 for building debhelper.
4183 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4194 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4197 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4201 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4204 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4205 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4206 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4207 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4208 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4209 it's always available.
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4213 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4216 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4217 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4218 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4222 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4225 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4226 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4230 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4236 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4239 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4243 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4249 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4252 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4253 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4254 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4258 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4261 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4266 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4269 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4270 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4272 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4273 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4283 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4289 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4292 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4296 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4299 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4300 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4302 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4306 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4309 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4310 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4311 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4315 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4318 things if CDPATH is set.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4322 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4328 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4331 seems to make sense for the transition.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4335 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4338 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4343 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4346 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4347 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4351 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4354 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4358 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4361 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4362 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4363 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4364 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4368 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4374 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4377 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4378 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4379 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4380 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4381 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4382 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4383 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4384 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4385 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4386 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4391 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4394 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4395 * README: mention doc/v2
4396 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4397 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4401 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4403 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4404 be using this script RSN.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4408 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4411 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4412 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4413 more than 1 init script.
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4417 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4420 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4424 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * Changed perl version detection.
4427 * Changed call to find.
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4431 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4434 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4436 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4441 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * Really include dh_installpam.
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4447 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4450 * Wrote man page for same.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4454 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4457 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4458 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4463 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4470 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4473 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4474 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4475 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4476 x bit was being set!
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4480 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4483 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4484 well. (Closes: 38900)
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4488 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4491 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4492 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4496 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4502 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4509 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4515 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4518 help from Julian Gilbey.
4519 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4520 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4521 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4522 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4523 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4524 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4525 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4530 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4536 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4543 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4549 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4555 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4558 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4562 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4565 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4569 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4572 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4576 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4582 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4585 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4589 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4595 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4601 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4604 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4605 may be deleted. (#35845)
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4609 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * Various man page enhancements.
4612 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4617 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4620 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4621 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4625 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4628 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4629 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4630 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4632 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4633 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4638 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4644 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * Another very minor typo fix.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4650 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * Very minor typo fix.
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4656 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4659 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4660 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4664 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4670 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4673 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4674 variables properly (#34850).
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4678 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4684 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4687 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4688 (automatically generated by build process).
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4692 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4694 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4698 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4701 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4702 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4704 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4708 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4711 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4715 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * README: minor typo fix.
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4721 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4724 leave it at that. :-)
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4728 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4734 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4740 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4743 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4744 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4745 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4749 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4752 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4756 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4759 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4763 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4766 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4767 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4768 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4769 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4773 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4776 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4777 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4778 Craig Small for spotting this.
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4782 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4785 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4786 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4790 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4796 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4799 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4803 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4805 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4806 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4807 working on the last version of debhelper.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4811 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4814 being made. (#23255)
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4818 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4824 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4827 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4831 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4834 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4835 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4836 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4837 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4841 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4844 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4845 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4846 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4847 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4849 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4850 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4852 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4857 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4863 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4865 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4869 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4872 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4873 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4874 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4875 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4876 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4877 suidregister actually supports it.
4878 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4879 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4883 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4890 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4893 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4894 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4895 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4896 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4897 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4898 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4899 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4903 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4905 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4906 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4910 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4913 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4914 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4915 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4916 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4920 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4923 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4925 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4926 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4927 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4928 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4929 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4930 effect, either. (#30118)
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4934 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4940 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4943 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4944 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4948 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4954 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4957 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4958 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4959 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4960 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4964 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4967 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4968 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4972 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4978 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4980 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4981 packages, painlessly.
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4985 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4991 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4997 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5003 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * The perl conversion is complete.
5007 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5009 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5010 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5011 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5016 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5019 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5020 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5021 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5025 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5028 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5030 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5032 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5033 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5037 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5040 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5041 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5045 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5051 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5054 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5055 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5056 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5057 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5058 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5062 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5065 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5066 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5067 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5068 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5072 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5075 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5079 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5082 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5083 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5084 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5085 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5086 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5087 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5088 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5089 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5093 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5095 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5099 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5102 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5103 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5104 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5109 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5112 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5116 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5119 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5123 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5126 sections of shared libraries.
5127 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5128 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5129 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5130 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5131 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5132 things you don't want them to.
5133 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5134 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5138 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5141 shared libraries. (#26414)
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5145 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5147 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5148 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5149 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5150 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5154 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5158 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5160 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5161 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5162 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5163 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5164 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5168 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5171 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5175 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5178 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5179 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5184 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5187 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5191 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5194 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5195 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5196 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5197 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5198 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5200 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5201 remove debian/files properly.
5202 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5203 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5204 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5205 * Removed bogus menu file.
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5209 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5212 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5216 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5219 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5220 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5221 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5222 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5223 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5224 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5228 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5230 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5231 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5232 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5233 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5234 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5238 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5245 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5248 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5249 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5251 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5252 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5253 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5254 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5255 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5256 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5260 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5263 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5264 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5265 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5266 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5267 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5268 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5269 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5270 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5271 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5272 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5273 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5274 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5275 passed any switches.
5276 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5280 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5283 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5284 at all for a long while.
5285 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5286 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5287 large chunks in the process.
5288 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5289 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5290 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5295 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5298 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5300 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5305 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5308 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5309 that don't always have the same files in them.
5310 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5311 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5312 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5316 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5320 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5321 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5322 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5323 updating 27 man pages.
5324 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5325 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5326 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5327 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5328 programs act on. (#25247)
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5332 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5336 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5337 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5338 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5339 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5340 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5341 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5346 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5353 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5360 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5362 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5363 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5367 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5373 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5376 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5377 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5378 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5379 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5380 package by accident.
5381 * Is version 1.0 next?
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5385 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5388 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5389 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5393 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5395 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5396 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5397 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5398 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5399 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5400 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5402 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5407 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5410 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5411 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5415 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5418 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5422 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5425 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5426 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5431 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5437 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5440 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5441 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5446 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5452 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5454 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5455 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5456 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5457 past week. Thanks, guys!
5459 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5460 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5461 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5462 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5463 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5464 would do in the same situation.
5465 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5466 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5468 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5470 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5471 permissions changed.
5472 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5473 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5474 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5475 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5476 files are treated identically.
5477 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5478 * Minor man page fixes.
5479 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5480 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5481 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5485 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5488 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5489 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5490 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5491 use -X multiple times, too.
5492 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5493 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5497 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5500 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5501 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5505 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5507 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5508 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5512 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5515 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5516 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5517 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5518 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5519 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5520 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5521 shape if you're starting a new package.
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5525 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5528 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5532 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5535 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5536 because of missing symlinks.
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5540 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5546 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5549 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5550 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5551 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5552 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5553 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5555 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5556 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5560 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5562 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5563 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5564 to be changed after the fact :-)
5565 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5569 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5571 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5572 no version string after the -V.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5576 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5578 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5579 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5584 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5587 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5591 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5594 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5595 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5596 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5597 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5598 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5599 I always welcome corrections!
5601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5603 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5605 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5609 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5612 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5613 * Documented this new switch.
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5617 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5620 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5621 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5622 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5623 no packages use the old behavior.
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5627 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5630 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5631 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5635 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5638 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5642 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5648 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5650 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5651 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5655 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5657 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5658 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5659 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5660 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5664 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5670 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5673 into the source package by accident.
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5677 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5680 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5681 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5682 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5683 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5684 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5685 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5690 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5694 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5695 inspired to implement some of it.
5696 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5700 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5703 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5707 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5710 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5711 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5715 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5717 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5718 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5719 have done.) (#17598)
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5723 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5729 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5735 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5737 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5738 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5742 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5745 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5746 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5750 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5752 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5753 argument processor in perl.
5754 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5755 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5756 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5757 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5761 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5764 type directories. (#16933)
5765 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5766 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5767 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5768 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5769 are supported. (#16935)
5770 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5775 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5778 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5782 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5784 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5786 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5787 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5788 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5789 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5790 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5791 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5795 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5797 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5798 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5799 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5801 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5802 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5803 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5804 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5805 a given package, or -i or -a.
5806 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5807 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5808 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5809 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5810 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5811 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5812 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5813 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5814 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5816 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5817 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5818 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5822 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5824 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5825 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5826 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5831 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5834 does not have a section.
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5838 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5841 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5842 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5843 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5847 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * Fixed typo #16215.
5851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5853 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5855 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5856 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5857 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5858 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5859 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5860 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5865 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5867 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5868 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5869 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5870 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5875 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5881 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5887 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5890 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5891 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5892 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5893 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5894 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5895 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5899 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5905 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5908 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5912 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5915 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5916 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5917 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5921 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5924 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5928 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5930 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5934 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5936 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5937 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5941 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5944 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5948 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5954 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5956 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5957 postinst, postrm, etc.
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5961 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5967 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5969 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5970 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5971 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5972 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5973 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5974 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5978 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5980 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5981 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5982 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5986 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5989 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5993 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5996 installing package files into.
5997 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6002 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6006 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6010 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6012 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6016 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6018 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6019 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6023 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6026 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6027 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6028 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6029 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6033 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6035 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6036 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6037 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6038 multiple binary packages.
6039 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6040 should rebuild them with this version.
6041 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6045 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6048 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6052 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6055 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6059 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6061 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6062 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6063 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6064 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6065 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6066 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6067 debian/README.debian.
6068 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6069 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6070 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6071 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6072 in a few situations.)
6074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6076 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6078 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6082 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6084 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6088 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6091 * Fixed several man pages.
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6095 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6097 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6098 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6099 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6103 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6105 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6106 is ready for general use.
6107 * Added man pages for all commands.
6108 * Multiple binary package support.
6109 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6110 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6111 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6113 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6114 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6115 auto-installed as parameters.
6116 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6118 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6121 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6122 the package build directory it is to act on.
6123 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6124 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6125 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6129 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6131 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6132 ready to replace debstd.
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400