1 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
7 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
14 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
17 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
21 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
25 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
26 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
28 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
29 file support. Closes: #494914
30 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
34 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
37 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
38 parameters. Closes: #527256
39 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
40 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
41 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
45 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
47 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
49 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
50 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
51 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
55 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
58 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
59 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
60 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
64 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
67 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
68 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
70 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
71 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
72 by triggers). Closes: #521181
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
76 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
78 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
80 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
84 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
87 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
88 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
89 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
90 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
95 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
101 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
104 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
105 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
106 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
107 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
108 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
110 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
111 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
112 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
113 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
114 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
115 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
119 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
121 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
122 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
123 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
124 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
125 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
126 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
128 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
132 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
134 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
138 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
140 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
141 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
142 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
143 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
144 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
145 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
146 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
147 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
148 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
149 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
150 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
154 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
156 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
157 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
159 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
160 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
161 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
162 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
164 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
165 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
169 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
171 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
172 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
173 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
174 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
175 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
176 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
177 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
179 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
180 that uses them. Affected options are:
181 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
182 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
183 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
184 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
185 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
186 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
187 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
188 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
189 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
190 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
191 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
192 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
196 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
203 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
209 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
211 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
212 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
214 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
215 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
216 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
217 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
218 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
220 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
222 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
223 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
224 rules (see bug #509756).
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
228 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
234 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
235 * Typo. Closes: #493062
236 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
237 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
241 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
244 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
245 empty files. Closes: #490937
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
249 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
255 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
262 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
265 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
266 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
267 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
268 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
273 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
275 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
276 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
277 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
278 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
282 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
285 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
286 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
287 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
288 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
289 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
293 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
300 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
302 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
303 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
304 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
305 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
306 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
307 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
308 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
309 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
310 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
311 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
315 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
318 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
319 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
320 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
321 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
323 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
324 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
325 breaking backwards compatability.
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
329 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
332 message in perl 5.10.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
336 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
342 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Convert copyright file to new format.
345 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
349 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
352 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
356 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
359 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
360 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
361 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
362 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
363 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
364 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
365 logging by dh_listpackages.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
369 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
372 run and there are no packages of that type.
373 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
374 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
375 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
376 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
378 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
379 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
383 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
385 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
386 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
387 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
391 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
393 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
394 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
395 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
397 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
398 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
399 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
400 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
401 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
402 planned but not yet implemented.)
403 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
404 if the Makefile has such a target.
405 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
406 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
407 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
408 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
409 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
410 but not yet implemented.)
411 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
412 recommended default, especially when using dh.
413 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
414 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
415 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
417 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
419 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
420 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
422 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
423 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
424 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
429 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
432 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
433 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
437 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
439 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
440 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
441 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
445 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
451 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
457 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
460 just those installed by the program.
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
464 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
467 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
468 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
472 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
475 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
476 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
477 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
478 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
482 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
485 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
486 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
490 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
493 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
494 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
498 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
500 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
501 with policy. Closes: #461392
502 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
503 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
504 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
505 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
506 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
510 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
513 Closes: #460340, #460351
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
517 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
520 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
521 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
522 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
523 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
527 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
530 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
531 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
532 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
533 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
534 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
535 package build directory won't work.
536 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
537 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
538 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
539 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
540 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
541 mode. Closes: #459426
542 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
547 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
550 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
554 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
558 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
559 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
560 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
561 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
562 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
563 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
567 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
569 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
570 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
571 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
572 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
573 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
577 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
580 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
581 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
582 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
583 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
584 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
588 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
591 debian/package.triggers files.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
595 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
598 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
602 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
605 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
606 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
607 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
608 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
613 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
616 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
620 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
623 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
624 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
626 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
631 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
635 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
636 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
637 * Typo. Closes: #441272
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
641 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
648 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
655 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
658 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
660 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
661 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
662 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
664 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
665 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
666 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
670 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
673 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
674 * Update urls to web page.
675 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
677 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
678 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
682 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
685 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
686 - typo in alternatives call
687 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
689 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
690 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
694 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
697 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
702 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
708 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
714 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
716 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
717 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
719 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
720 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
721 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
722 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
723 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
724 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
725 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
726 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
727 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
728 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
729 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
733 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
736 package install. Closes: #415717
737 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
738 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
739 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
740 script and then remove the python files.
741 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
742 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
743 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
744 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
745 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
746 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
747 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
748 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
749 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
750 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
751 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
752 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
753 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
757 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Correct typo in french translation
763 * Typo. Closes: #400571
764 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
766 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
768 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
769 Closes: #406921, #381940
770 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
772 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
773 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
774 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
775 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
776 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
777 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
778 specified). Closes: #381851
779 * Misc minor changes.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
783 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
790 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
791 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
795 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
801 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
802 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
805 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
806 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
808 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
809 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
810 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
811 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
815 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
818 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
821 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
825 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
831 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
837 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
838 a difficult situation.
839 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
840 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
841 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
842 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
843 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
844 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
845 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
846 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
847 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
848 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
852 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Non-maintainer upload.
855 * Update of dh_python
856 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
857 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
859 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
860 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
861 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
862 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
863 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
865 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
867 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Non-maintainer upload.
870 * Update of dh_python
871 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
872 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
873 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
874 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
875 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
876 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
877 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
878 specific python version. Closes: #373853
879 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
880 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
882 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
883 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
884 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
885 the not too-distant future).
886 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
887 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
888 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
889 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
890 thus made the build fail.
892 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
894 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Non-maintainer upload.
897 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
899 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
901 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
904 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
905 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
906 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
907 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
908 package. Closes: #301424
909 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
910 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
911 fonts). Closes: #372686
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
915 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
921 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
922 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
923 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
924 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
925 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
926 above, but already depends on that.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
930 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
933 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
934 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
935 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
936 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
937 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
941 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
947 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
953 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
954 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
958 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
961 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
965 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
968 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
969 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
970 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
971 new version (0.24.1).
972 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
973 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
976 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
977 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
978 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
979 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
980 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
981 new directory on their own.
982 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
983 * Fix broken directory removal code.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
987 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
990 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
991 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
992 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
993 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
997 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1000 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1001 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1002 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1003 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1004 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1008 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1014 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1018 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1019 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1023 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1024 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1028 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1030 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1031 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1033 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1034 ignored. Closes: #337664
1036 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1041 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1047 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1052 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1053 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1054 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1055 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1056 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1057 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1058 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1062 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1065 version. Closes: #350607
1066 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1067 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1068 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1069 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1073 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1076 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1077 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1078 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1082 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1089 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1095 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1098 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1102 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1105 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1106 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1107 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1108 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1109 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1110 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1114 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1117 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1118 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1123 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1126 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1130 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1133 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1137 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1140 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1141 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1142 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1143 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1144 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1145 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1149 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1153 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1154 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1155 link. Closes: #346405
1156 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1158 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1159 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1160 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1161 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1162 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1163 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1164 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1168 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1175 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1181 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1184 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1188 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1191 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1196 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1200 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1201 installed. Closes: #342033
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1205 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1208 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1209 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1210 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1215 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1221 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1227 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1231 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1232 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1233 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1237 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1240 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1245 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1252 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1258 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1261 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1262 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1263 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1264 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1265 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1266 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1267 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1269 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1273 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1276 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1277 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1281 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1284 in standard man dirs.
1285 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1289 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1295 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1298 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1303 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1310 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1317 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1320 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1321 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1325 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1328 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1329 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1330 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1332 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1334 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1340 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1346 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1349 mode. Closes: #324161
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1353 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1356 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1357 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1358 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1359 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1364 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1367 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1368 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1369 is necesary for sanity.
1370 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1371 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1376 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1378 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1379 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1383 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1386 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1390 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1396 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1399 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1400 released, so use at your own risk.
1401 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1402 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1404 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1405 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1406 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1407 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1408 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1409 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1410 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1411 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1412 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1413 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1414 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1415 including twice per config file line now..
1416 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1417 and simplfy the rules file.
1418 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1419 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1420 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1422 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1423 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1427 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1430 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1434 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1437 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1441 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1444 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1448 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1451 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1452 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1453 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1454 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1455 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1456 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1460 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1463 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1464 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1465 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1470 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1473 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1474 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1479 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1482 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1483 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1484 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1489 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1492 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1493 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1494 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1498 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1504 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1511 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1514 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1515 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1516 unknown. Closes: #282924
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1520 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1527 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Spanish man page updates.
1530 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1535 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1541 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1544 * dh_desktop: reindent
1545 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1546 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1550 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1556 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1558 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1562 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1564 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1568 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1571 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1572 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1576 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1582 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1588 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1595 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1598 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1602 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1605 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1606 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1607 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1608 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1609 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1610 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1612 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1613 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1614 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1615 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1616 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1617 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1618 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1619 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1620 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1621 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1622 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1623 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1624 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1625 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1626 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1627 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1631 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1638 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1641 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1645 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1648 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1652 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1655 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1659 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1662 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1666 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1672 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1678 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1684 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1687 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1688 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1689 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1693 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1696 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1700 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1703 but occasionally right and necessary.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1707 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1710 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1711 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1712 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1713 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1714 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1718 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1721 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1723 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1724 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1725 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1726 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1727 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1728 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1729 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1730 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1731 postinst scripts for udebs.
1732 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1736 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1739 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1741 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1742 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1746 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1752 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1759 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1766 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1769 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1773 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1776 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1780 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1783 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1786 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1787 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1791 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1797 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1800 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1804 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1807 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1808 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1809 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1811 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1813 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1814 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1815 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1819 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1822 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1827 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1830 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1831 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1832 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1837 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1843 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1849 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1852 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1853 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1854 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1855 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1856 associated -dbg packages.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1860 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1863 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1867 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1870 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1874 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1877 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1881 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1884 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1889 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1892 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1896 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1899 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1904 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1907 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1911 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1915 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1916 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1917 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1918 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1919 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1920 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1921 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1922 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1923 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1924 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1928 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1931 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1936 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1939 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1940 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1944 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1947 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1948 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1953 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1956 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1960 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1963 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1967 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1970 out section number. Closes: #204731
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1974 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1981 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1993 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1996 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1997 removal. Closes: #204286
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2001 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2004 renaming. Closes: #203548
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2008 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2011 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2012 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2016 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2022 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2028 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2034 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2037 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2038 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2039 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2043 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2046 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2047 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2051 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2057 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2064 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2067 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2072 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2075 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2082 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2084 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2085 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2089 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2092 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2097 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2100 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2104 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2110 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2112 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2116 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2119 it break hard links (see #188663).
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2123 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2126 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2130 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2136 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2140 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2141 debconf-mergetemplates
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2145 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2148 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2152 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2155 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2159 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2162 * Update debhelper(1).
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2166 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2169 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2170 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2171 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2172 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2173 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2177 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2180 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2181 the shell. Closes: #178524
2182 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2186 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2189 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2193 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2196 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2200 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2203 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2204 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2205 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2206 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2211 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2214 files from installation.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2218 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2221 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2222 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2226 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2229 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2233 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2236 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2240 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2246 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2252 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2256 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2257 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2259 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2263 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2266 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2267 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2268 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2269 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2273 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2276 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2280 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2283 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2284 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2288 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2292 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2297 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2303 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2307 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2308 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2309 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2317 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2318 practice. Closes: #163303
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2322 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2328 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2335 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2338 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2340 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2341 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2342 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2343 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2344 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2351 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2356 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2362 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2369 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2372 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2377 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2383 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2389 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2395 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2402 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2405 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2406 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2407 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2408 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2413 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2419 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2426 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2429 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2430 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2434 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2437 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2438 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2439 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2440 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2441 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2445 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2448 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2450 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2455 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2458 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2462 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2465 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2466 right thing. Closes: #150644
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2470 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Stupid, evil typo.
2473 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2477 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2484 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2487 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2488 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2493 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2499 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2502 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2506 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2509 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2510 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2515 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2518 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2528 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2531 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2532 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2536 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2542 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Removing perl warning message.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2548 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2551 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2552 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2553 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2554 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2555 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2556 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2557 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2558 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2562 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2568 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2575 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2578 debconf-mergetemplate.
2579 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2580 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2584 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2587 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2588 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2589 dh_install, which ...
2590 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2591 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2592 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2593 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2594 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2595 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2596 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2597 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2598 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2599 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2600 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2601 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2602 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2603 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2604 other minor changes.
2605 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2606 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2607 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2608 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2609 course there's -X ..)
2610 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2611 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2612 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2614 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2615 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2616 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2617 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2618 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2623 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2629 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2632 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2636 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2642 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2648 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2654 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2660 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2663 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2664 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2665 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2666 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2668 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2669 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2673 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2679 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2682 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2686 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2689 upset. Closes: #131322
2691 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2693 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2696 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2697 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2698 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2699 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2700 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2701 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2702 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2703 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2704 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2705 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2706 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2707 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2708 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2709 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2710 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2712 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2716 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2719 - Better indenting of generated code.
2720 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2724 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2728 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2729 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2730 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2731 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2732 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2733 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2734 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2738 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2741 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2745 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2748 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2749 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2750 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2751 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2752 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2753 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2754 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2755 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2756 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2757 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2758 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2759 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2760 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2761 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2762 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2767 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2773 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2776 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2777 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2781 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2784 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2785 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2789 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2795 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2798 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2799 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2800 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2801 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2802 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2807 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2813 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2816 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2820 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2823 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2828 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2834 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2837 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2841 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2847 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2851 Also some indentation fixes.
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2855 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2858 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2859 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2860 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2861 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2862 Closes: #106514, #85520
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2866 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2872 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2878 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2884 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2890 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2896 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2899 change it in debhelper v4..
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2903 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2909 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2912 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2916 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2919 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2923 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2929 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2932 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2933 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2934 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2935 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2936 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2937 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2938 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2939 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2940 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2941 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2942 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2943 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2947 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2950 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2954 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2961 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2964 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2965 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2966 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2967 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2968 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2969 program those options go to. So, for example,
2970 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2971 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2972 something complex. Closes: #89311
2973 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2977 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2980 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2981 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2982 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2986 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2989 through loop. Closes: #98598
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2993 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * Missing semi-colon.
2996 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2997 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3001 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3004 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3005 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3006 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3010 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3013 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3014 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3018 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3021 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3025 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3028 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3029 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3033 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3036 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3037 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3038 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3042 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3045 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3046 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3047 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3051 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3054 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3058 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3064 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3070 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3076 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3082 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3085 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3089 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3092 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3093 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3094 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3095 followed. Closes: #85483
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3099 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3101 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3102 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3103 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3107 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3110 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3111 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3112 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3113 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3114 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3115 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3116 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3117 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3118 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3119 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3120 Closes: #88464, #77743
3121 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3122 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3123 us to deal with that gracefully.
3124 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3126 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3127 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3128 a while, Closes: #51225
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3132 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3138 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3141 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3145 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3149 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3154 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3157 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3158 don't make packlist files.
3159 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3160 debhelper coding standards.
3161 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3162 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3166 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3169 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3173 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3176 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3177 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3178 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3179 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3180 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3181 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3182 but is mildly deprecated.
3183 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3184 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3185 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3186 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3187 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3188 switching to statoverrides..
3189 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3190 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3191 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3192 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3193 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3194 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3196 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3197 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3198 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3199 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3200 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3201 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3202 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3203 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3204 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3206 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3207 variable names, pod man pages).
3208 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3209 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3210 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3211 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3212 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3213 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3214 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3218 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3224 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3231 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3234 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3238 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3240 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3241 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3242 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3246 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3248 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3249 they were previously ignored.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3253 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3255 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3256 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3260 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3262 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3263 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3264 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3268 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3270 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3274 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3276 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3277 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3281 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3283 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3284 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3285 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3286 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3287 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3288 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3289 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3290 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3291 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3292 it is an obsolete program.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3296 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3298 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3302 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3306 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3308 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3312 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3314 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3316 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3318 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3322 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3328 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * typo: Closes, #78567
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3334 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3340 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3346 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3349 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3350 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3351 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3352 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3353 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3357 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3360 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3365 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3368 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3369 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3370 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3371 backwards-compatability.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3375 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3378 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3379 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3380 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3381 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3382 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3383 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3385 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3386 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3387 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3389 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3391 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3392 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3393 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3394 should now be raised to severity important..
3395 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3396 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3400 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3403 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3408 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3414 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3420 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3426 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3433 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3436 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3437 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3438 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3439 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3443 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3449 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3452 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3453 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3454 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3455 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3456 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3457 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3462 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3465 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3469 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3475 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3478 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3483 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3486 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3487 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3488 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3489 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3493 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3497 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3500 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3503 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3504 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3507 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3509 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3510 the TODO entry about it.
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3514 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3521 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3524 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3525 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3529 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3532 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3533 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3534 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3535 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3539 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3545 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3552 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3555 (this appears to be logal).
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3559 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3562 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3563 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3564 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3565 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3569 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3575 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3578 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3579 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3580 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3581 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3585 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3591 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3594 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3598 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3605 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3608 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3609 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3610 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3615 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3622 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3628 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3631 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3632 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3633 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3634 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3635 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3636 notice until v2 is complete.
3637 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3638 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3639 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3640 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3641 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3642 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3644 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3645 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3646 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3647 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3651 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3657 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3664 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3667 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3671 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3678 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3681 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3682 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3683 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3684 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3689 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3692 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3693 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3694 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3699 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3702 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3703 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3707 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3710 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3714 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3717 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3721 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3728 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3731 depend on the build and install targets.
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3735 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3738 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3742 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3749 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3755 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3761 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3764 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3765 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3766 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3767 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3768 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3769 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3771 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3772 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3773 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3774 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3775 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3776 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3777 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3781 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3787 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3793 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3796 right place. Closes: #55065
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3800 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3807 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3810 * Copyright date updates.
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3814 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3817 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3822 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3828 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3835 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3841 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3847 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3853 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3856 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3857 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3858 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3859 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3860 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3861 bits until all files have been registered.
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3865 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * dh_installmanpages:
3868 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3869 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3870 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3871 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3872 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3873 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3874 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3875 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3876 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3877 otherwise change the result at all.
3879 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3880 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3881 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3882 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3883 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3888 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3894 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3897 act on files that don't exist.
3898 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3899 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3900 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3902 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3903 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3904 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3905 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3909 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3915 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3921 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3924 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3928 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3931 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3933 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3934 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3935 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3939 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3942 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3943 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3944 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3945 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3946 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3947 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3948 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3950 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3952 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3956 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3963 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3969 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3975 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3978 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3982 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3988 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3994 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3997 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3998 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3999 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4000 I made some changes, though:
4001 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4002 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4003 that is a clear violation of policy.
4004 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4005 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4006 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4007 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4008 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4009 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4010 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4011 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4012 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4014 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4018 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4024 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4027 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4031 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4034 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4035 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4040 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4046 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4053 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4056 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4057 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4058 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4059 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4060 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4061 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4062 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4066 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4072 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4076 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4077 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4081 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4087 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4090 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4094 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4097 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4098 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4102 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4104 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4109 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4113 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4117 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4120 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4121 for the dependancies to be generated.
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4125 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4128 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4132 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4135 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4136 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4137 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4142 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4145 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4146 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4156 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4162 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4165 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4169 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4175 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4177 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4178 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4179 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4180 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4181 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4182 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4183 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4184 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4185 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4186 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4187 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4188 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4189 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4193 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4196 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4197 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4199 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4200 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4201 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4202 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4203 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4204 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4206 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4207 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4211 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4214 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4218 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4228 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4233 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4236 for building debhelper.
4237 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4241 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4248 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4251 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4255 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4258 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4259 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4260 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4261 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4262 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4263 it's always available.
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4267 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4270 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4271 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4272 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4276 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4279 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4280 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4284 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4290 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4293 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4297 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4306 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4307 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4308 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4312 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4315 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4320 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4323 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4324 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4326 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4327 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4331 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4343 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4346 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4350 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4353 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4354 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4356 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4360 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4363 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4364 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4365 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4369 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4372 things if CDPATH is set.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4376 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4382 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4385 seems to make sense for the transition.
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4389 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4392 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4397 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4400 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4401 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4405 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4408 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4412 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4415 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4416 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4417 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4418 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4422 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4428 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4431 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4432 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4433 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4434 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4435 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4436 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4437 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4438 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4439 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4440 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4445 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4448 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4449 * README: mention doc/v2
4450 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4451 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4455 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4457 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4458 be using this script RSN.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4462 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4465 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4466 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4467 more than 1 init script.
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4471 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4474 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4478 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * Changed perl version detection.
4481 * Changed call to find.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4485 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4488 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4490 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4495 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * Really include dh_installpam.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4501 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4504 * Wrote man page for same.
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4508 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4511 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4512 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4517 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4524 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4527 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4528 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4529 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4530 x bit was being set!
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4534 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4537 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4538 well. (Closes: 38900)
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4542 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4545 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4546 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4550 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4556 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4563 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4569 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4572 help from Julian Gilbey.
4573 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4574 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4575 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4576 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4577 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4578 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4579 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4584 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4586 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4590 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4597 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4603 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4609 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4612 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4616 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4619 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4623 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4626 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4630 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4636 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4639 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4643 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4649 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4655 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4658 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4659 may be deleted. (#35845)
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4663 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * Various man page enhancements.
4666 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4671 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4673 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4674 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4675 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4679 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4682 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4683 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4684 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4686 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4687 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4692 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4698 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * Another very minor typo fix.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4704 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * Very minor typo fix.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4710 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4713 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4714 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4718 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4724 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4727 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4728 variables properly (#34850).
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4732 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4738 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4741 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4742 (automatically generated by build process).
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4746 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4748 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4752 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4755 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4756 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4758 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4762 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4765 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4769 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * README: minor typo fix.
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4775 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4778 leave it at that. :-)
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4782 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4788 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4794 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4797 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4798 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4799 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4803 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4806 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4810 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4813 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4817 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4820 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4821 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4822 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4823 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4827 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4829 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4830 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4831 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4832 Craig Small for spotting this.
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4836 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4839 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4840 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4844 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4850 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4853 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4857 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4859 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4860 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4861 working on the last version of debhelper.
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4865 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4868 being made. (#23255)
4870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4872 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4874 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4878 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4881 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4885 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4888 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4889 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4890 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4891 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4895 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4898 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4899 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4900 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4901 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4903 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4904 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4906 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4911 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4913 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4917 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4923 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4926 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4927 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4928 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4929 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4930 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4931 suidregister actually supports it.
4932 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4933 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4937 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4944 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4947 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4948 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4949 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4950 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4951 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4952 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4953 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4957 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4959 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4960 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4964 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4967 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4968 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4969 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4970 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4974 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4977 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4979 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4980 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4981 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4982 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4983 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4984 effect, either. (#30118)
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4988 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4994 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4997 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4998 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5002 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5008 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5011 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5012 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5013 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5014 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5018 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5020 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5021 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5022 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5026 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5032 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5035 packages, painlessly.
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5039 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5045 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5051 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5057 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * The perl conversion is complete.
5061 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5063 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5064 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5065 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5070 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5073 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5074 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5075 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5079 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5082 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5084 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5086 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5087 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5091 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5094 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5095 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5099 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5105 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5108 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5109 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5110 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5111 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5112 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5116 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5119 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5120 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5121 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5122 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5126 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5129 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5133 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5136 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5137 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5138 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5139 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5140 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5141 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5142 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5143 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5147 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5153 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5155 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5156 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5157 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5158 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5163 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5166 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5170 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5173 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5177 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5180 sections of shared libraries.
5181 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5182 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5183 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5184 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5185 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5186 things you don't want them to.
5187 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5188 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5192 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5195 shared libraries. (#26414)
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5199 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5201 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5202 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5203 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5204 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5208 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5212 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5214 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5215 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5216 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5217 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5218 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5222 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5225 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5229 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5232 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5233 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5238 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5241 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5245 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5248 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5249 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5250 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5251 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5252 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5254 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5255 remove debian/files properly.
5256 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5257 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5258 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5259 * Removed bogus menu file.
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5263 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5266 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5270 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5273 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5274 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5275 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5276 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5277 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5278 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5282 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5285 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5286 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5287 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5288 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5292 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5299 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5302 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5303 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5305 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5306 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5307 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5308 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5309 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5310 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5314 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5317 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5318 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5319 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5320 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5321 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5322 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5323 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5324 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5325 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5326 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5327 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5328 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5329 passed any switches.
5330 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5334 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5337 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5338 at all for a long while.
5339 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5340 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5341 large chunks in the process.
5342 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5343 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5344 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5349 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5352 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5354 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5359 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5362 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5363 that don't always have the same files in them.
5364 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5365 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5366 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5370 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5374 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5375 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5376 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5377 updating 27 man pages.
5378 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5379 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5380 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5381 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5382 programs act on. (#25247)
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5386 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5390 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5391 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5392 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5393 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5394 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5395 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5400 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5407 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5414 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5417 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5421 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5427 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5430 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5431 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5432 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5433 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5434 package by accident.
5435 * Is version 1.0 next?
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5439 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5442 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5443 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5447 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5450 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5451 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5452 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5453 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5454 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5456 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5461 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5464 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5465 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5469 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5472 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5476 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5479 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5480 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5485 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5491 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5494 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5495 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5500 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5506 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5509 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5510 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5511 past week. Thanks, guys!
5513 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5514 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5515 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5516 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5517 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5518 would do in the same situation.
5519 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5520 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5522 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5524 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5525 permissions changed.
5526 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5527 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5528 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5529 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5530 files are treated identically.
5531 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5532 * Minor man page fixes.
5533 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5534 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5535 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5539 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5542 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5543 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5544 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5545 use -X multiple times, too.
5546 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5547 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5551 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5554 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5555 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5559 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5562 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5566 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5569 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5570 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5571 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5572 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5573 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5574 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5575 shape if you're starting a new package.
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5579 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5582 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5586 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5589 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5590 because of missing symlinks.
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5594 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5600 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5603 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5604 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5605 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5606 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5607 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5609 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5610 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5614 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5616 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5617 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5618 to be changed after the fact :-)
5619 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5623 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5625 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5626 no version string after the -V.
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5630 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5632 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5633 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5638 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5641 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5645 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5648 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5649 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5650 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5651 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5652 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5653 I always welcome corrections!
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5657 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5663 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5666 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5667 * Documented this new switch.
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5671 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5674 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5675 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5676 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5677 no packages use the old behavior.
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5681 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5684 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5685 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5689 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5692 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5696 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5702 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5704 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5705 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5709 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5712 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5713 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5714 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5718 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5724 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5727 into the source package by accident.
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5731 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5734 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5735 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5736 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5737 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5738 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5739 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5744 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5748 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5749 inspired to implement some of it.
5750 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5754 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5757 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5761 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5764 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5765 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5769 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5772 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5773 have done.) (#17598)
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5777 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5783 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5789 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5791 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5792 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5796 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5799 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5800 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5804 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5807 argument processor in perl.
5808 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5809 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5810 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5811 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5815 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5817 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5818 type directories. (#16933)
5819 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5820 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5821 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5822 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5823 are supported. (#16935)
5824 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5829 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5832 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5836 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5840 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5841 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5842 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5843 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5844 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5845 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5849 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5851 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5852 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5853 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5855 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5856 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5857 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5858 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5859 a given package, or -i or -a.
5860 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5861 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5862 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5863 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5864 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5865 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5866 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5867 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5868 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5870 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5871 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5872 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5876 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5878 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5879 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5880 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5885 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5888 does not have a section.
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5892 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5895 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5896 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5897 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5901 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5903 * Fixed typo #16215.
5905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5907 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5909 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5910 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5911 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5912 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5913 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5914 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5919 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5922 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5923 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5924 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5929 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5931 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5935 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5937 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5941 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5944 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5945 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5946 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5947 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5948 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5949 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5953 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5959 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5961 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5962 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5966 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5968 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5969 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5970 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5971 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5975 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5978 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5982 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5984 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5988 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5990 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5991 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5995 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5997 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5998 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6002 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6008 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6010 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6011 postinst, postrm, etc.
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6015 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6021 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6023 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6024 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6025 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6026 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6027 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6028 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6032 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6034 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6035 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6036 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6040 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6042 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6043 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6047 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6049 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6050 installing package files into.
6051 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6056 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6058 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6060 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6064 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6066 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6070 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6072 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6073 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6077 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6079 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6080 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6081 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6082 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6083 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6087 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6089 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6090 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6091 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6092 multiple binary packages.
6093 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6094 should rebuild them with this version.
6095 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6099 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6102 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6106 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6108 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6109 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6113 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6116 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6117 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6118 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6119 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6120 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6121 debian/README.debian.
6122 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6123 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6124 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6125 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6126 in a few situations.)
6128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6130 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6132 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6136 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6138 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6142 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6145 * Fixed several man pages.
6147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6149 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6151 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6152 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6153 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6157 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6159 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6160 is ready for general use.
6161 * Added man pages for all commands.
6162 * Multiple binary package support.
6163 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6164 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6165 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6167 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6168 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6169 auto-installed as parameters.
6170 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6172 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6175 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6176 the package build directory it is to act on.
6177 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6178 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6179 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6183 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6185 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6186 ready to replace debstd.
6188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400