1 debhelper (7.4.8) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
4 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
5 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:32:50 -0500
9 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
11 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
12 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
13 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
14 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
18 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
20 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
21 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
22 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
26 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
28 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
32 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
34 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
35 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
36 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
37 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
38 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
39 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
40 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
41 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
42 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
43 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
44 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
45 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
46 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
47 time soon.) Closes: #554509
48 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
50 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
51 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
52 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
53 document id. Closes: #555677
54 * Typo. Closes: #555659
55 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
56 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
57 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
58 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
60 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
61 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
62 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
67 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
70 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
71 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
72 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
73 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
74 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
75 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
76 translation (#494300 part 2)
79 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
81 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
82 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
83 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
84 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
85 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
89 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
92 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
93 (It was only run once due to logging.)
94 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
95 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
96 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
97 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
98 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
99 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
100 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
101 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
102 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
103 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
107 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
111 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
114 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
115 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
119 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
121 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
122 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
123 flag with arch all/any packages.
124 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
125 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
126 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
127 situation. Closes: #540794
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
131 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
133 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
135 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
136 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
137 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
138 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
139 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
142 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
143 the default. Closes: #538201
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
148 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
150 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
152 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
153 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
154 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
155 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
156 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
158 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
159 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
160 * Above Closes: #491117
161 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
166 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
172 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
173 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
174 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
178 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
181 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
182 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
183 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
184 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
185 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
190 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
193 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
194 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
198 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
200 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
204 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
206 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
207 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
209 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
210 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
211 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
215 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
217 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
218 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
222 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
228 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
230 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
231 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
232 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
237 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
239 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
243 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
246 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
247 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
248 created by using `python' first during build and install.
250 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
255 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
257 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
261 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
263 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
264 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
268 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
270 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
274 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
276 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
280 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
282 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
283 contributed by Modestas Vainius
284 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
285 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
286 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
287 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
288 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
289 that support it. Closes: #480577
290 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
291 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
292 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
294 - Adds support for cmake.
295 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
296 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
298 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
300 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
301 that use them. The options are:
302 --sourcedir, --destdir
303 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
304 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
305 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
306 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
307 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
311 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
317 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
319 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
320 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
321 default. Closes: #537140
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
325 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
328 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
329 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
333 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
336 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
340 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
343 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
347 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
350 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
352 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
353 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
354 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
358 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
361 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
362 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
363 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
367 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
370 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
371 warning or deprecation message.
372 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
373 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
374 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
375 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
376 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
377 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
378 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
379 Closes: #534639, #357434
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
383 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
389 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
392 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
393 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
394 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
395 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
397 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
398 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
399 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
403 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
409 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
411 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
416 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
419 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
423 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
427 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
428 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
430 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
431 file support. Closes: #494914
432 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
436 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
439 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
440 parameters. Closes: #527256
441 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
442 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
443 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
447 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
451 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
452 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
453 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
457 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
460 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
461 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
462 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
466 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
469 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
470 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
472 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
473 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
474 by triggers). Closes: #521181
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
478 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
482 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
486 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
489 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
490 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
491 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
492 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
497 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
503 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
506 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
507 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
508 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
509 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
510 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
512 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
513 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
514 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
515 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
516 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
517 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
521 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
524 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
525 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
526 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
527 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
528 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
530 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
534 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
536 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
540 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
542 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
543 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
544 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
545 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
546 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
547 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
548 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
549 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
550 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
551 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
552 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
556 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
558 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
559 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
561 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
562 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
563 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
564 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
566 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
567 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
571 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
573 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
574 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
575 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
576 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
577 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
578 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
579 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
581 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
582 that uses them. Affected options are:
583 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
584 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
585 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
586 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
587 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
588 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
589 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
590 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
591 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
592 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
593 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
594 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
598 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
605 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
607 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
611 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
613 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
614 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
616 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
617 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
618 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
619 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
620 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
622 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
624 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
625 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
626 rules (see bug #509756).
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
630 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
636 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
637 * Typo. Closes: #493062
638 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
639 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
643 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
646 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
647 empty files. Closes: #490937
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
651 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
657 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
664 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
667 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
668 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
669 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
670 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
675 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
677 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
678 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
679 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
680 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
684 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
687 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
688 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
689 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
690 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
691 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
695 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
702 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
704 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
705 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
706 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
707 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
708 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
709 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
710 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
711 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
712 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
713 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
717 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
720 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
721 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
722 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
723 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
725 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
726 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
727 breaking backwards compatibility.
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
731 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
734 message in perl 5.10.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
738 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
744 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Convert copyright file to new format.
747 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
751 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
754 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
758 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
761 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
762 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
763 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
764 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
765 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
766 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
767 logging by dh_listpackages.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
771 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
774 run and there are no packages of that type.
775 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
776 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
777 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
778 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
780 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
781 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
785 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
787 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
788 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
789 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
793 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
796 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
797 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
799 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
800 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
801 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
802 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
803 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
804 planned but not yet implemented.)
805 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
806 if the Makefile has such a target.
807 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
808 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
809 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
810 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
811 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
812 but not yet implemented.)
813 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
814 recommended default, especially when using dh.
815 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
816 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
817 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
819 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
821 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
822 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
824 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
825 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
826 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
831 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
834 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
835 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
839 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
841 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
842 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
843 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
847 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
853 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
859 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
862 just those installed by the program.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
866 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
869 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
870 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
874 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
877 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
878 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
879 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
880 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
884 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
886 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
887 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
888 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
892 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
895 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
896 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
900 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
903 with policy. Closes: #461392
904 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
905 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
906 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
907 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
908 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
912 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
915 Closes: #460340, #460351
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
919 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
922 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
923 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
924 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
925 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
929 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
931 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
932 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
933 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
934 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
935 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
936 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
937 package build directory won't work.
938 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
939 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
940 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
941 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
942 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
943 mode. Closes: #459426
944 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
949 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
952 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
956 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
960 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
961 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
962 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
963 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
964 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
965 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
969 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
972 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
973 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
974 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
975 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
979 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
982 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
983 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
984 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
985 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
986 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
990 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
993 debian/package.triggers files.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
997 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1000 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1004 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1007 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1008 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1009 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1010 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1015 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1018 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1022 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1025 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1026 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1028 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1033 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1037 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1038 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1039 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1043 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1050 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1057 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1060 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1062 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1063 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1064 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1066 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1067 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1068 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1072 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1075 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1076 * Update urls to web page.
1077 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1078 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1079 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1080 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1084 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1087 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1088 - typo in alternatives call
1089 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1091 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1092 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1096 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1099 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1104 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1110 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1116 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1119 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1121 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1122 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1123 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1124 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1125 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1126 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1127 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1128 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1129 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1130 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1131 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1135 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1138 package install. Closes: #415717
1139 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1140 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1141 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1142 script and then remove the python files.
1143 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1144 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1145 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1146 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1147 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1148 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1149 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1150 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1151 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1152 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1153 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1154 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1155 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1159 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Correct typo in french translation
1165 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1166 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1168 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1170 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1171 Closes: #406921, #381940
1172 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1174 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1175 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1176 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1177 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1178 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1179 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1180 specified). Closes: #381851
1181 * Misc minor changes.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1185 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1192 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1193 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1197 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1203 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1204 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1207 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1208 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1210 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1211 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1212 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1213 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1217 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1220 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1223 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1227 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1233 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1239 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1240 a difficult situation.
1241 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1242 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1243 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1244 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1245 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1246 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1247 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1248 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1249 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1250 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1254 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Non-maintainer upload.
1257 * Update of dh_python
1258 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1259 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1261 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1262 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1263 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1264 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1265 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1267 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1269 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Non-maintainer upload.
1272 * Update of dh_python
1273 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1274 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1275 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1276 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1277 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1278 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1279 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1280 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1281 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1282 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1284 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1285 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1286 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1287 the not too-distant future).
1288 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1289 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1290 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1291 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1292 thus made the build fail.
1294 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1296 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Non-maintainer upload.
1299 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1301 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1303 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1306 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1307 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1308 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1309 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1310 package. Closes: #301424
1311 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1312 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1313 fonts). Closes: #372686
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1317 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1323 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1324 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1325 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1326 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1327 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1328 above, but already depends on that.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1332 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1335 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1336 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1337 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1338 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1339 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1343 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1349 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1355 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1356 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1360 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1363 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1367 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1371 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1372 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1373 new version (0.24.1).
1374 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1375 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1378 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1379 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1380 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1381 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1382 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1383 new directory on their own.
1384 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1385 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1389 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1392 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1393 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1394 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1395 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1399 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1402 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1403 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1404 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1405 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1406 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1410 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1416 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1420 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1421 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1425 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1426 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1430 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1432 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1433 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1435 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1436 ignored. Closes: #337664
1438 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1443 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1449 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1454 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1455 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1456 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1457 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1458 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1459 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1460 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1464 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1467 version. Closes: #350607
1468 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1469 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1470 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1471 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1475 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1478 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1479 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1480 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1484 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1491 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1497 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1500 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1504 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1507 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1508 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1509 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1510 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1511 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1512 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1516 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1519 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1520 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1525 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1528 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1532 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1535 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1539 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1542 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1543 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1544 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1545 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1546 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1547 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1551 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1555 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1556 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1557 link. Closes: #346405
1558 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1560 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1561 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1562 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1563 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1564 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1565 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1566 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1570 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1577 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1583 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1586 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1590 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1593 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1598 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1602 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1603 installed. Closes: #342033
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1607 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1610 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1611 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1612 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1617 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1623 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1629 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1633 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1634 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1635 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1639 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1642 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1647 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1654 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1660 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1663 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1664 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1665 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1666 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1667 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1668 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1669 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1671 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1675 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1678 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1679 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1683 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1686 in standard man dirs.
1687 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1691 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1697 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1700 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1705 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1712 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1719 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1722 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1723 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1727 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1730 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1731 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1732 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1734 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1736 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1742 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1748 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1751 mode. Closes: #324161
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1755 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1758 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1759 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1760 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1761 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1766 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1769 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1770 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1771 is necesary for sanity.
1772 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1773 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1778 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1780 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1781 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1785 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1788 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1792 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1798 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1801 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1802 released, so use at your own risk.
1803 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1804 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1806 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1807 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1808 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1809 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1810 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1811 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1812 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1813 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1814 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1815 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1816 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1817 including twice per config file line now..
1818 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1819 and simplfy the rules file.
1820 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1821 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1822 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1824 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1825 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1829 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1832 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1836 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1839 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1846 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1850 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1853 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1854 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1855 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1856 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1857 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1858 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1862 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1865 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1866 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1867 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1872 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1875 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1876 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1881 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1884 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1885 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1886 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1891 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1894 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1895 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1896 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1900 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1906 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1913 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1916 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1917 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1918 unknown. Closes: #282924
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1922 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1929 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Spanish man page updates.
1932 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1937 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1943 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1946 * dh_desktop: reindent
1947 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1948 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1952 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1958 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1960 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1964 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1966 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1970 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1973 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1974 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1978 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1984 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1990 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1997 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2000 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2004 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2007 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2008 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2009 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2010 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2011 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2012 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2014 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2015 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2016 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2017 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2018 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2019 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2020 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2021 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2022 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2023 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2024 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2025 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2026 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2027 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2028 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2029 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2033 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2040 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2043 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2047 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2050 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2054 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2057 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2061 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2064 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2068 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2074 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2080 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2086 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2089 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2090 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2091 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2095 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2098 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2102 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2105 but occasionally right and necessary.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2109 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2112 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2113 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2114 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2115 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2116 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2120 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2123 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2125 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2126 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2127 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2128 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2129 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2130 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2131 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2132 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2133 postinst scripts for udebs.
2134 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2138 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2141 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2143 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2144 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2148 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2154 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2161 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2168 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2171 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2175 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2178 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2182 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2185 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2188 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2189 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2193 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2199 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2202 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2206 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2209 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2210 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2211 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2213 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2215 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2216 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2217 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2221 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2224 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2229 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2232 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2233 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2234 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2239 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2245 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2251 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2254 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2255 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2256 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2257 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2258 associated -dbg packages.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2262 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2265 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2269 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2272 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2276 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2279 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2283 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2286 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2291 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2294 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2298 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2301 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2306 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2309 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2313 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2317 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2318 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2319 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2320 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2321 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2322 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2323 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2324 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2325 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2326 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2330 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2333 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2338 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2341 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2342 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2346 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2349 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2350 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2355 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2358 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2362 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2365 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2369 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2372 out section number. Closes: #204731
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2376 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2383 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2389 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2395 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2398 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2399 removal. Closes: #204286
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2403 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2406 renaming. Closes: #203548
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2410 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2413 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2414 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2418 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2430 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2436 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2439 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2440 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2441 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2445 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2448 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2449 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2453 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2459 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2466 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2469 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2474 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2477 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2484 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2486 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2487 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2491 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2494 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2499 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2502 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2506 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2512 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2514 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2518 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2521 it break hard links (see #188663).
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2525 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2528 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2532 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2538 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2542 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2543 debconf-mergetemplates
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2547 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2550 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2554 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2557 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2561 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2564 * Update debhelper(1).
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2568 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2571 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2572 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2573 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2574 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2575 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2579 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2582 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2583 the shell. Closes: #178524
2584 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2588 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2591 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2595 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2598 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2602 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2605 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2606 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2607 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2608 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2613 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2616 files from installation.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2620 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2623 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2624 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2628 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2631 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2635 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2638 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2642 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2648 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2654 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2658 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2659 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2661 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2665 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2668 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2669 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2670 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2671 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2675 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2678 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2682 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2685 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2686 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2690 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2694 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2699 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2705 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2709 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2710 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2711 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2716 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2719 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2720 practice. Closes: #163303
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2724 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2730 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2737 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2740 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2742 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2743 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2744 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2745 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2746 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2750 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2753 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2758 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2764 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2771 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2774 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2779 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2785 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2791 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2797 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2804 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2807 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2808 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2809 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2810 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2815 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2821 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2828 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2831 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2832 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2836 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2839 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2840 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2841 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2842 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2843 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2847 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2850 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2852 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2857 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2860 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2864 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2867 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2868 right thing. Closes: #150644
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2872 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * Stupid, evil typo.
2875 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2879 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2886 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2889 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2890 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2895 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2901 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2904 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2908 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2911 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2912 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2917 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2920 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2924 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2930 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2933 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2934 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2938 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2944 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Removing perl warning message.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2950 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2953 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2954 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2955 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2956 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2957 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2958 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2959 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2960 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2964 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2970 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2977 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2980 debconf-mergetemplate.
2981 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2982 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2986 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2989 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2990 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2991 dh_install, which ...
2992 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2993 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2994 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2995 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2996 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2997 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2998 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2999 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3000 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3001 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3002 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3003 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3004 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3005 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3006 other minor changes.
3007 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3008 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3009 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3010 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3011 course there's -X ..)
3012 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3013 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3014 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3016 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3017 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3018 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3019 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3020 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3025 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3031 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3034 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3038 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3044 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3050 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3056 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3062 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3065 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3066 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3067 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3068 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3070 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3071 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3075 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3081 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3084 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3088 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3091 upset. Closes: #131322
3093 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3095 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3098 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3099 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3100 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3101 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3102 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3103 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3104 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3105 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3106 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3107 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3108 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3109 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3110 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3111 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3112 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3114 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3118 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3121 - Better indenting of generated code.
3122 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3126 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3130 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3131 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3132 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3133 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3134 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3135 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3136 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3140 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3143 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3147 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3150 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3151 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3152 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3153 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3154 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3155 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3156 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3157 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3158 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3159 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3160 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3161 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3162 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3163 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3164 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3169 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3175 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3178 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3179 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3183 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3186 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3187 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3191 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3197 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3200 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3201 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3202 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3203 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3204 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3209 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3215 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3218 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3222 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3225 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3230 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3236 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3239 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3243 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3249 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3253 Also some indentation fixes.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3257 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3260 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3261 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3262 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3263 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3264 Closes: #106514, #85520
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3268 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3274 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3280 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3286 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3292 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3298 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3301 change it in debhelper v4..
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3305 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3311 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3314 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3318 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3321 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3325 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3331 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3334 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3335 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3336 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3337 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3338 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3339 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3340 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3341 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3342 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3343 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3344 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3345 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3349 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3352 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3356 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3363 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3366 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3367 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3368 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3369 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3370 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3371 program those options go to. So, for example,
3372 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3373 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3374 something complex. Closes: #89311
3375 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3379 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3382 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3383 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3384 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3388 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3391 through loop. Closes: #98598
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3395 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Missing semi-colon.
3398 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3399 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3403 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3406 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3407 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3408 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3412 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3415 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3416 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3420 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3423 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3427 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3430 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3431 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3435 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3438 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3439 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3440 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3444 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3447 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3448 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3449 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3453 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3456 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3460 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3466 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3472 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3478 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3484 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3487 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3491 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3494 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3495 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3496 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3497 followed. Closes: #85483
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3501 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3503 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3504 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3505 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3509 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3512 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3513 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3514 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3515 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3516 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3517 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3518 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3519 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3520 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3521 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3522 Closes: #88464, #77743
3523 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3524 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3525 us to deal with that gracefully.
3526 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3528 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3529 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3530 a while, Closes: #51225
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3534 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3540 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3543 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3547 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3551 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3556 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3559 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3560 don't make packlist files.
3561 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3562 debhelper coding standards.
3563 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3564 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3568 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3571 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3575 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3578 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3579 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3580 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3581 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3582 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3583 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3584 but is mildly deprecated.
3585 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3586 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3587 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3588 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3589 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3590 switching to statoverrides..
3591 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3592 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3593 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3594 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3595 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3596 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3598 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3599 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3600 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3601 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3602 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3603 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3604 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3605 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3606 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3608 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3609 variable names, pod man pages).
3610 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3611 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3612 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3613 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3614 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3615 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3616 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3620 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3626 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3633 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3636 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3640 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3642 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3643 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3644 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3648 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3650 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3651 they were previously ignored.
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3655 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3657 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3658 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3662 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3664 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3665 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3666 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3670 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3672 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3676 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3678 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3679 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3683 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3685 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3686 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3687 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3688 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3689 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3690 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3691 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3692 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3693 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3694 it is an obsolete program.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3698 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3700 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3704 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3708 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3710 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3714 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3716 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3718 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3720 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3724 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3730 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * typo: Closes, #78567
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3736 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3742 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3748 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3751 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3752 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3753 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3754 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3755 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3759 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3762 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3767 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3770 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3771 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3772 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3773 backwards-compatibility.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3777 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3780 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3781 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3782 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3783 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3784 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3785 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3787 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3788 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3789 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3791 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3793 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3794 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3795 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3796 should now be raised to severity important..
3797 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3798 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3802 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3805 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3810 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3816 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3822 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3828 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3835 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3838 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3839 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3840 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3841 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3845 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3851 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3854 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3855 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3856 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3857 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3858 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3859 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3864 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3867 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3871 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3877 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3880 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3885 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3888 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3889 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3890 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3891 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3895 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3899 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3902 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3905 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3906 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3909 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3911 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3912 the TODO entry about it.
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3916 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3923 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3926 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3927 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3931 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3934 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3935 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3936 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3937 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3941 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3947 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3954 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3957 (this appears to be logal).
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3961 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3964 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3965 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3966 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3967 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3971 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3977 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3980 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3981 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3982 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3983 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3987 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3993 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3996 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4000 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4007 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4010 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4011 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4012 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4017 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4024 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4030 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4033 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4034 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4035 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4036 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4037 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4038 notice until v2 is complete.
4039 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4040 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4041 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4042 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4043 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4044 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4046 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4047 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4048 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4049 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4053 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4059 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4066 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4069 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4073 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4080 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4083 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4084 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4085 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4086 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4091 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4094 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4095 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4096 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4101 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4104 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4105 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4109 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4112 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4116 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4119 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4123 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4130 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4133 depend on the build and install targets.
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4137 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4140 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4144 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4151 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4157 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4163 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4166 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4167 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4168 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4169 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4170 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4171 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4173 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4174 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4175 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4176 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4177 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4178 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4179 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4183 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4189 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4195 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4198 right place. Closes: #55065
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4202 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4209 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4212 * Copyright date updates.
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4216 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4219 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4224 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4230 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4237 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4243 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4249 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4255 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4258 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4259 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4260 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4261 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4262 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4263 bits until all files have been registered.
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4267 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * dh_installmanpages:
4270 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4271 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4272 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4273 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4274 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4275 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4276 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4277 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4278 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4279 otherwise change the result at all.
4281 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4282 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4283 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4284 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4285 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4290 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4296 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4299 act on files that don't exist.
4300 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4301 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4302 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4304 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4305 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4306 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4307 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4311 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4317 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4323 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4326 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4330 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4333 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4335 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4336 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4337 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4341 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4344 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4345 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4346 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4347 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4348 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4349 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4350 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4352 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4354 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4358 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4365 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4371 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4377 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4380 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4384 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4390 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4396 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4399 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4400 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4401 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4402 I made some changes, though:
4403 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4404 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4405 that is a clear violation of policy.
4406 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4407 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4408 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4409 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4410 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4411 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4412 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4413 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4414 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4416 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4420 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4426 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4429 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4433 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4436 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4437 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4442 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4448 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4455 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4458 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4459 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4460 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4461 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4462 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4463 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4464 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4468 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4474 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4478 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4479 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4483 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4489 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4492 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4496 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4499 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4500 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4504 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4506 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4511 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4515 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4519 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4522 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4523 for the dependancies to be generated.
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4527 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4530 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4534 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4537 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4538 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4539 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4544 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4547 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4548 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4552 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4558 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4564 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4567 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4571 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4573 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4577 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4579 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4580 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4581 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4582 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4583 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4584 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4585 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4586 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4587 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4588 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4589 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4590 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4591 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4595 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4598 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4599 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4601 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4602 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4603 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4604 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4605 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4606 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4608 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4609 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4613 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4616 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4620 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4627 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4630 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4635 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4638 for building debhelper.
4639 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4643 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4650 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4653 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4657 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4660 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4661 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4662 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4663 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4664 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4665 it's always available.
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4669 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4672 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4673 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4674 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4678 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4681 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4682 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4686 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4692 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4695 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4699 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4705 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4708 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4709 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4710 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4714 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4717 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4722 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4725 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4726 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4728 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4729 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4733 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4739 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4745 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4748 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4752 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4755 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4756 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4758 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4762 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4765 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4766 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4767 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4771 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4774 things if CDPATH is set.
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4778 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4784 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4787 seems to make sense for the transition.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4791 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4794 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4799 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4802 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4803 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4807 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4810 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4814 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4817 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4818 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4819 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4820 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4824 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4830 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4833 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4834 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4835 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4836 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4837 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4838 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4839 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4840 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4841 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4842 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4847 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4850 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4851 * README: mention doc/v2
4852 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4853 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4857 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4859 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4860 be using this script RSN.
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4864 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4867 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4868 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4869 more than 1 init script.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4873 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4876 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4880 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * Changed perl version detection.
4883 * Changed call to find.
4885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4887 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4889 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4890 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4892 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4897 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * Really include dh_installpam.
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4903 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4906 * Wrote man page for same.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4910 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4913 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4914 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4919 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4926 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4929 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4930 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4931 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4932 x bit was being set!
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4936 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4939 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4940 well. (Closes: 38900)
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4944 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4947 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4948 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4952 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4958 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4965 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4971 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4974 help from Julian Gilbey.
4975 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4976 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4977 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4978 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4979 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4980 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4981 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4986 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4988 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4992 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4994 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4999 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5005 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5011 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5013 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5014 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5018 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5020 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5021 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5025 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5028 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5032 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5038 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5041 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5045 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5051 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5057 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5060 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5061 may be deleted. (#35845)
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5065 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * Various man page enhancements.
5068 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5073 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5075 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5076 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5077 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5081 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5084 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5085 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5086 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5088 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5089 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5094 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5100 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * Another very minor typo fix.
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5106 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * Very minor typo fix.
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5112 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5115 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5116 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5120 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5126 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5129 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5130 variables properly (#34850).
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5134 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5140 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5143 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5144 (automatically generated by build process).
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5148 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5150 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5154 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5157 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5158 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5160 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5164 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5167 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5171 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * README: minor typo fix.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5177 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5180 leave it at that. :-)
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5184 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5190 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5196 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5199 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5200 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5201 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5205 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5208 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5212 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5215 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5219 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5222 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5223 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5224 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5225 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5229 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5232 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5233 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5234 Craig Small for spotting this.
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5238 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5241 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5242 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5246 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5248 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5252 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5255 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5259 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5261 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5262 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5263 working on the last version of debhelper.
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5267 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5270 being made. (#23255)
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5274 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5280 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5283 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5287 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5290 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5291 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5292 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5293 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5297 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5300 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5301 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5302 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5303 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5305 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5306 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5308 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5313 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5319 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5325 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5328 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5329 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5330 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5331 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5332 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5333 suidregister actually supports it.
5334 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5335 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5339 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5346 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5349 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5350 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5351 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5352 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5353 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5354 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5355 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5359 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5361 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5362 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5366 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5369 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5370 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5371 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5372 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5376 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5379 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5381 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5382 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5383 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5384 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5385 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5386 effect, either. (#30118)
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5390 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5396 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5399 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5400 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5404 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5410 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5413 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5414 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5415 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5416 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5420 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5423 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5424 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5428 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5434 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5437 packages, painlessly.
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5441 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5447 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5453 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5459 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * The perl conversion is complete.
5463 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5465 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5466 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5467 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5472 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5475 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5476 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5477 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5481 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5484 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5486 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5488 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5489 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5493 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5495 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5496 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5497 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5501 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5507 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5510 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5511 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5512 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5513 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5514 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5518 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5520 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5521 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5522 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5523 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5524 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5528 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5531 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5535 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5537 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5538 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5539 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5540 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5541 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5542 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5543 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5544 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5545 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5549 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5555 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5558 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5559 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5560 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5565 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5568 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5572 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5575 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5579 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5582 sections of shared libraries.
5583 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5584 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5585 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5586 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5587 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5588 things you don't want them to.
5589 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5590 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5594 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5597 shared libraries. (#26414)
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5601 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5603 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5604 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5605 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5606 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5610 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5614 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5616 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5617 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5618 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5619 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5620 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5624 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5627 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5631 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5634 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5635 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5640 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5643 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5647 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5650 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5651 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5652 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5653 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5654 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5656 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5657 remove debian/files properly.
5658 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5659 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5660 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5661 * Removed bogus menu file.
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5665 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5668 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5672 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5674 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5675 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5676 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5677 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5678 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5679 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5680 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5684 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5687 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5688 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5689 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5690 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5694 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5701 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5704 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5705 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5707 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5708 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5709 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5710 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5711 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5712 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5716 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5719 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5720 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5721 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5722 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5723 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5724 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5725 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5726 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5727 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5728 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5729 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5730 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5731 passed any switches.
5732 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5736 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5739 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5740 at all for a long while.
5741 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5742 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5743 large chunks in the process.
5744 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5745 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5746 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5751 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5754 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5756 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5761 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5764 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5765 that don't always have the same files in them.
5766 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5767 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5768 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5772 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5774 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5776 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5777 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5778 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5779 updating 27 man pages.
5780 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5781 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5782 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5783 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5784 programs act on. (#25247)
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5788 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5792 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5793 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5794 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5795 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5796 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5797 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5802 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5809 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5816 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5819 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5823 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5829 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5832 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5833 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5834 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5835 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5836 package by accident.
5837 * Is version 1.0 next?
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5841 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5844 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5845 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5849 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5851 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5852 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5853 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5854 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5855 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5856 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5858 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5863 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5865 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5866 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5867 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5871 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5874 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5878 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5880 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5881 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5882 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5887 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5893 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5896 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5897 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5902 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5908 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5910 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5911 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5912 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5913 past week. Thanks, guys!
5915 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5916 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5917 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5918 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5919 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5920 would do in the same situation.
5921 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5922 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5924 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5926 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5927 permissions changed.
5928 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5929 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5930 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5931 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5932 files are treated identically.
5933 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5934 * Minor man page fixes.
5935 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5936 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5937 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5941 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5944 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5945 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5946 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5947 use -X multiple times, too.
5948 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5949 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5953 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5956 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5957 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5961 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5964 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5968 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5971 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5972 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5973 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5974 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5975 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5976 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5977 shape if you're starting a new package.
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5981 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5983 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5984 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5988 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5990 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5991 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5992 because of missing symlinks.
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5996 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6002 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6005 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6006 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6007 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6008 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6009 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6011 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6012 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6016 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6018 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6019 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6020 to be changed after the fact :-)
6021 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6025 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6027 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6028 no version string after the -V.
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6032 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6034 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6035 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6040 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6042 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6043 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6047 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6049 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6050 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6051 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6052 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6053 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6054 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6055 I always welcome corrections!
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6059 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6061 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6065 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6067 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6068 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6069 * Documented this new switch.
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6073 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6076 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6077 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6078 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6079 no packages use the old behavior.
6081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6083 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6085 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6086 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6087 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6091 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6094 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6098 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6100 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6104 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6106 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6107 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6111 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6113 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6114 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6115 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6116 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6120 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6122 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6126 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6129 into the source package by accident.
6131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6133 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6135 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6136 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6137 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6138 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6139 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6140 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6141 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6146 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6148 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6150 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6151 inspired to implement some of it.
6152 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6156 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6159 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6163 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6165 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6166 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6167 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6171 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6173 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6174 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6175 have done.) (#17598)
6177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6179 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6181 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6185 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6187 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6191 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6193 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6194 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6198 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6201 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6202 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6206 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6208 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6209 argument processor in perl.
6210 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6211 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6212 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6213 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6217 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6220 type directories. (#16933)
6221 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6222 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6223 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6224 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6225 are supported. (#16935)
6226 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6231 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6233 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6234 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6238 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6240 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6242 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6243 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6244 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6245 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6246 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6247 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6251 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6253 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6254 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6255 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6257 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6258 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6259 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6260 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6261 a given package, or -i or -a.
6262 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6263 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6264 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6265 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6266 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6267 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6268 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6269 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6270 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6272 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6273 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6274 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6278 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6280 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6281 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6282 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6287 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6289 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6290 does not have a section.
6292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6294 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6296 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6297 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6298 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6299 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6303 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6305 * Fixed typo #16215.
6307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6309 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6311 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6312 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6313 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6314 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6315 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6316 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6321 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6323 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6324 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6325 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6326 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6331 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6333 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6337 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6339 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6343 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6345 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6346 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6347 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6348 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6349 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6350 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6351 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6355 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6357 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6361 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6363 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6364 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6368 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6370 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6371 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6372 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6373 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6377 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6379 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6380 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6384 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6386 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6390 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6392 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6393 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6397 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6399 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6400 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6404 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6406 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6410 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6412 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6413 postinst, postrm, etc.
6415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6417 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6419 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6423 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6425 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6426 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6427 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6428 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6429 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6430 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6434 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6436 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6437 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6438 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6442 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6444 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6445 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6449 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6451 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6452 installing package files into.
6453 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6458 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6460 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6462 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6466 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6468 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6472 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6474 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6475 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6479 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6481 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6482 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6483 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6484 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6485 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6489 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6491 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6492 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6493 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6494 multiple binary packages.
6495 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6496 should rebuild them with this version.
6497 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6501 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6504 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6508 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6510 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6511 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6515 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6517 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6518 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6519 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6520 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6521 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6522 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6523 debian/README.debian.
6524 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6525 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6526 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6527 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6528 in a few situations.)
6530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6532 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6534 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6538 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6540 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6544 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6546 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6547 * Fixed several man pages.
6549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6551 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6553 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6554 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6555 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6559 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6561 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6562 is ready for general use.
6563 * Added man pages for all commands.
6564 * Multiple binary package support.
6565 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6566 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6567 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6569 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6570 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6571 auto-installed as parameters.
6572 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6574 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6577 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6578 the package build directory it is to act on.
6579 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6580 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6581 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6585 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6587 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6588 ready to replace debstd.
6590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400