1 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
7 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
10 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
11 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
12 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
13 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
14 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
16 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
17 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
18 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
19 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
20 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
21 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
25 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
28 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
29 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
30 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
31 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
32 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
34 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
38 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
40 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
44 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
46 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
47 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
48 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
49 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
50 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
51 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
52 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
53 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
54 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
55 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
56 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
60 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
62 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
63 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
65 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
66 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
67 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
68 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
70 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
71 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
75 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
77 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
78 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
79 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
80 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
81 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
82 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
83 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
85 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
86 that uses them. Affected options are:
87 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
88 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
89 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
90 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
91 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
92 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
93 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
94 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
95 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
96 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
97 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
98 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
102 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
109 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
111 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
115 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
117 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
118 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
120 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
121 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
122 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
123 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
124 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
126 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
128 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
129 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
130 rules (see bug #509756).
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
134 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
140 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
141 * Typo. Closes: #493062
142 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
143 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
147 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
149 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
150 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
151 empty files. Closes: #490937
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
155 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
161 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
168 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
171 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
172 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
173 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
174 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
179 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
181 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
182 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
183 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
184 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
188 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
191 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
192 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
193 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
194 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
195 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
199 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
201 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
206 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
208 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
209 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
210 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
211 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
212 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
213 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
214 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
215 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
216 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
217 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
221 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
224 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
225 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
226 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
227 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
229 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
230 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
231 breaking backwards compatability.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
235 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
238 message in perl 5.10.
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
242 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
248 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Convert copyright file to new format.
251 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
255 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
258 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
262 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
265 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
266 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
267 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
268 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
269 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
270 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
271 logging by dh_listpackages.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
275 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
278 run and there are no packages of that type.
279 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
280 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
281 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
282 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
284 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
285 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
289 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
291 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
292 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
293 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
297 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
300 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
301 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
303 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
304 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
305 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
306 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
307 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
308 planned but not yet implemented.)
309 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
310 if the Makefile has such a target.
311 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
312 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
313 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
314 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
315 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
316 but not yet implemented.)
317 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
318 recommended default, especially when using dh.
319 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
320 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
321 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
323 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
325 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
326 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
328 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
329 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
330 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
335 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
338 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
339 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
343 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
345 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
346 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
347 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
351 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
357 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
363 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
366 just those installed by the program.
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
370 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
373 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
374 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
378 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
380 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
381 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
382 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
383 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
384 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
388 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
391 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
392 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
396 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
399 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
400 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
404 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
407 with policy. Closes: #461392
408 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
409 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
410 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
411 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
412 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
416 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
419 Closes: #460340, #460351
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
423 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
426 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
427 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
428 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
429 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
433 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
436 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
437 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
438 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
439 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
440 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
441 package build directory won't work.
442 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
443 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
444 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
445 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
446 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
447 mode. Closes: #459426
448 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
453 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
456 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
460 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
464 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
465 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
466 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
467 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
468 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
469 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
473 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
476 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
477 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
478 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
479 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
483 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
486 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
487 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
488 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
489 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
490 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
494 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
497 debian/package.triggers files.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
501 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
504 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
508 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
511 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
512 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
513 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
514 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
519 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
522 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
526 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
529 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
530 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
532 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
537 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
541 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
542 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
543 * Typo. Closes: #441272
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
547 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
554 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
561 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
564 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
566 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
567 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
568 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
570 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
571 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
572 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
576 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
579 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
580 * Update urls to web page.
581 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
583 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
584 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
588 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
591 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
592 - typo in alternatives call
593 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
595 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
596 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
600 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
602 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
603 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
608 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
614 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
620 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
623 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
625 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
626 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
627 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
628 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
629 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
630 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
631 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
632 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
633 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
634 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
635 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
639 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
642 package install. Closes: #415717
643 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
644 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
645 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
646 script and then remove the python files.
647 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
648 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
649 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
650 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
651 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
652 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
653 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
654 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
655 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
656 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
657 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
658 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
659 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
663 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Correct typo in french translation
669 * Typo. Closes: #400571
670 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
672 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
674 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
675 Closes: #406921, #381940
676 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
678 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
679 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
680 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
681 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
682 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
683 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
684 specified). Closes: #381851
685 * Misc minor changes.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
689 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
696 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
697 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
701 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
707 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
708 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
711 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
712 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
714 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
715 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
716 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
717 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
721 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
724 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
727 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
731 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
737 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
740 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
743 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
744 a difficult situation.
745 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
746 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
747 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
748 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
749 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
750 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
751 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
752 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
753 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
754 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
758 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Non-maintainer upload.
761 * Update of dh_python
762 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
763 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
765 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
766 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
767 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
768 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
769 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
771 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
773 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
775 * Non-maintainer upload.
776 * Update of dh_python
777 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
778 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
779 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
780 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
781 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
782 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
783 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
784 specific python version. Closes: #373853
785 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
786 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
788 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
789 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
790 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
791 the not too-distant future).
792 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
793 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
794 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
795 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
796 thus made the build fail.
798 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
800 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Non-maintainer upload.
803 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
805 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
807 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
810 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
811 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
812 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
813 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
814 package. Closes: #301424
815 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
816 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
817 fonts). Closes: #372686
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
821 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
827 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
828 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
829 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
830 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
831 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
832 above, but already depends on that.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
836 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
839 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
840 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
841 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
842 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
843 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
847 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
853 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
859 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
860 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
864 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
867 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
871 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
875 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
876 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
877 new version (0.24.1).
878 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
879 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
882 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
883 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
884 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
885 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
886 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
887 new directory on their own.
888 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
889 * Fix broken directory removal code.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
893 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
896 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
897 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
898 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
899 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
903 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
906 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
907 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
908 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
909 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
910 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
914 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
920 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Typo. Closes: #358904
924 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
925 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
929 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
930 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
934 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
936 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
937 || exit 0 instead of the intended
939 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
940 ignored. Closes: #337664
942 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
947 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
953 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
958 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
959 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
960 the dh_installdebconf manpage
961 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
962 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
963 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
964 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
968 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
971 version. Closes: #350607
972 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
973 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
974 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
975 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
979 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
982 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
983 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
984 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
988 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
995 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Minor bug fix from last release.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1001 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1004 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1008 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1011 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1012 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1013 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1014 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1015 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1016 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1020 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1023 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1024 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1029 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1032 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1036 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1039 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1043 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1046 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1047 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1048 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1049 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1050 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1051 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1055 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1059 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1060 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1061 link. Closes: #346405
1062 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1064 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1065 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1066 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1067 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1068 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1069 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1070 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1074 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1081 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1087 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1090 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1094 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1097 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1102 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1106 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1107 installed. Closes: #342033
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1111 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1114 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1115 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1116 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1121 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1127 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1133 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1137 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1138 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1139 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1143 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1146 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1151 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1158 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1164 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1167 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1168 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1169 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1170 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1171 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1172 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1173 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1175 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1179 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1182 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1183 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1187 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1190 in standard man dirs.
1191 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1195 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1201 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1204 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1209 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1216 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1223 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1226 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1227 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1231 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1234 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1235 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1236 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1238 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1240 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1246 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1252 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1255 mode. Closes: #324161
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1259 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1262 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1263 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1264 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1265 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1270 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1273 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1274 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1275 is necesary for sanity.
1276 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1277 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1282 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1284 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1285 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1289 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1292 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1296 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1302 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1305 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1306 released, so use at your own risk.
1307 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1308 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1310 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1311 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1312 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1313 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1314 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1315 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1316 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1317 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1318 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1319 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1320 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1321 including twice per config file line now..
1322 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1323 and simplfy the rules file.
1324 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1325 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1326 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1328 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1329 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1333 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1336 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1340 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1343 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1347 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1350 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1354 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1357 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1358 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1359 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1360 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1361 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1362 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1366 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1369 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1370 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1371 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1376 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1379 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1380 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1385 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1388 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1389 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1390 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1395 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1398 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1399 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1400 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1404 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1410 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1417 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1420 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1421 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1422 unknown. Closes: #282924
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1426 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1433 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Spanish man page updates.
1436 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1441 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1447 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1450 * dh_desktop: reindent
1451 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1452 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1456 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1462 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1464 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1468 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1470 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1474 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1477 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1478 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1482 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1488 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1494 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1501 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1504 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1508 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1511 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1512 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1513 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1514 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1515 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1516 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1518 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1519 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1520 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1521 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1522 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1523 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1524 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1525 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1526 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1527 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1528 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1529 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1530 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1531 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1532 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1533 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1537 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1544 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1547 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1551 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1554 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1558 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1561 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1565 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1568 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1572 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1578 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1584 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1590 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1593 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1594 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1595 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1599 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1602 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1606 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1609 but occasionally right and necessary.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1613 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1616 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1617 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1618 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1619 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1620 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1624 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1627 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1629 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1630 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1631 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1632 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1633 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1634 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1635 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1636 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1637 postinst scripts for udebs.
1638 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1642 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1645 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1647 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1648 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1652 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1658 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1665 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1672 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1675 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1679 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1682 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1686 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1689 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1692 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1693 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1697 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1703 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1706 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1710 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1713 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1714 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1715 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1717 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1719 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1720 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1721 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1725 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1728 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1733 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1736 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1737 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1738 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1743 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1749 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1755 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1758 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1759 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1760 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1761 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1762 associated -dbg packages.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1766 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1769 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1773 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1776 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1780 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1783 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1787 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1790 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1795 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1798 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1802 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1805 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1810 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1813 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1817 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1821 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1822 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1823 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1824 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1825 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1826 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1827 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1828 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1829 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1830 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1834 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1837 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1842 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1845 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1846 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1850 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1853 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1854 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1859 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1862 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1866 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1869 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1873 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1876 out section number. Closes: #204731
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1880 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1887 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1893 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1899 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1902 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1903 removal. Closes: #204286
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1907 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1910 renaming. Closes: #203548
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1914 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1917 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1918 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1928 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1934 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1940 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1943 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1944 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1945 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1949 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1952 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1953 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1957 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1963 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1970 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1973 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1978 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1981 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1985 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1988 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1990 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1991 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1995 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1998 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2003 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2006 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2010 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2016 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2018 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2022 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2025 it break hard links (see #188663).
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2029 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2032 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2036 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2042 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2046 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2047 debconf-mergetemplates
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2051 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2054 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2058 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2061 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2065 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2068 * Update debhelper(1).
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2072 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2075 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2076 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2077 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2078 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2079 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2083 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2086 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2087 the shell. Closes: #178524
2088 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2092 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2095 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2099 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2102 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2106 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2109 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2110 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2111 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2112 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2117 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2120 files from installation.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2124 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2127 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2128 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2132 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2135 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2139 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2142 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2146 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2152 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2158 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2162 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2163 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2165 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2169 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2172 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2173 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2174 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2175 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2179 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2182 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2186 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2189 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2190 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2194 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2198 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2203 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2209 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2213 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2214 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2215 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2220 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2223 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2224 practice. Closes: #163303
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2228 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2234 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2241 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2244 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2246 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2247 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2248 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2249 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2250 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2254 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2257 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2262 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2268 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2275 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2278 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2283 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2289 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2295 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2308 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2311 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2312 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2313 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2314 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2319 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2325 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2332 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2335 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2336 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2340 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2343 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2344 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2345 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2346 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2347 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2351 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2354 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2356 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2361 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2364 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2368 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2371 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2372 right thing. Closes: #150644
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2376 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Stupid, evil typo.
2379 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2383 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2390 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2393 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2394 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2399 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2405 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2408 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2412 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2415 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2416 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2421 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2424 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2428 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2434 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2437 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2438 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2442 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2448 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Removing perl warning message.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2454 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2457 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2458 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2459 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2460 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2461 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2462 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2463 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2464 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2468 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2474 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2484 debconf-mergetemplate.
2485 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2486 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2490 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2493 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2494 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2495 dh_install, which ...
2496 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2497 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2498 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2499 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2500 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2501 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2502 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2503 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2504 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2505 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2506 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2507 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2508 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2509 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2510 other minor changes.
2511 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2512 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2513 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2514 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2515 course there's -X ..)
2516 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2517 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2518 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2520 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2521 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2522 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2523 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2524 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2529 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2535 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2538 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2542 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2548 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2554 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2560 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2566 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2569 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2570 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2571 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2572 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2574 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2575 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2579 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2585 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2588 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2592 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2595 upset. Closes: #131322
2597 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2599 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2602 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2603 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2604 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2605 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2606 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2607 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2608 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2609 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2610 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2611 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2612 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2613 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2614 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2615 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2616 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2618 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2622 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2625 - Better indenting of generated code.
2626 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2630 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2634 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2635 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2636 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2637 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2638 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2639 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2640 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2644 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2647 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2651 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2654 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2655 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2656 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2657 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2658 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2659 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2660 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2661 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2662 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2663 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2664 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2665 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2666 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2667 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2668 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2673 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2679 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2682 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2683 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2687 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2690 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2691 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2695 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2701 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2704 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2705 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2706 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2707 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2708 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2713 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2719 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2722 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2726 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2729 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2734 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2740 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2743 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2747 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2753 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2757 Also some indentation fixes.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2761 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2764 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2765 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2766 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2767 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2768 Closes: #106514, #85520
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2772 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2778 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2784 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2790 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2796 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2802 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2805 change it in debhelper v4..
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2809 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2815 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2818 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2822 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2825 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2829 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2835 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2838 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2839 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2840 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2841 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2842 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2843 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2844 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2845 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2846 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2847 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2848 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2849 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2853 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2856 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2860 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2867 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2870 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2871 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2872 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2873 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2874 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2875 program those options go to. So, for example,
2876 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2877 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2878 something complex. Closes: #89311
2879 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2883 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2886 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2887 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2888 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2892 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2895 through loop. Closes: #98598
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2899 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * Missing semi-colon.
2902 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2903 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2907 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2910 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2911 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2912 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2916 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2919 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2920 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2924 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2927 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2931 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2934 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2935 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2939 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2942 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2943 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2944 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2948 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2951 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2952 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2953 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2957 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2960 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2964 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2970 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2976 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2982 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2988 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2991 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2995 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2998 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2999 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3000 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3001 followed. Closes: #85483
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3005 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3007 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3008 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3009 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3013 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3016 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3017 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3018 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3019 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3020 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3021 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3022 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3023 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3024 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3025 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3026 Closes: #88464, #77743
3027 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3028 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3029 us to deal with that gracefully.
3030 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3032 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3033 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3034 a while, Closes: #51225
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3038 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3044 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3047 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3051 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3055 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3060 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3063 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3064 don't make packlist files.
3065 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3066 debhelper coding standards.
3067 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3068 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3072 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3075 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3079 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3082 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3083 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3084 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3085 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3086 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3087 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3088 but is mildly deprecated.
3089 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3090 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3091 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3092 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3093 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3094 switching to statoverrides..
3095 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3096 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3097 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3098 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3099 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3100 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3102 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3103 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3104 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3105 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3106 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3107 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3108 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3109 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3110 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3112 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3113 variable names, pod man pages).
3114 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3115 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3116 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3117 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3118 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3119 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3120 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3124 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3130 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3137 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3140 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3144 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3146 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3147 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3148 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3152 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3154 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3155 they were previously ignored.
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3159 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3161 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3162 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3166 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3168 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3169 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3170 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3174 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3176 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3180 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3182 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3183 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3187 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3189 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3190 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3191 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3192 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3193 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3194 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3195 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3196 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3197 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3198 it is an obsolete program.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3202 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3204 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3208 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3212 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3214 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3218 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3220 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3222 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3224 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3228 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3234 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * typo: Closes, #78567
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3240 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3246 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3252 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3255 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3256 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3257 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3258 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3259 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3263 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3266 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3271 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3274 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3275 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3276 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3277 backwards-compatability.
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3281 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3284 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3285 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3286 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3287 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3288 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3289 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3291 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3292 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3293 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3295 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3297 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3298 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3299 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3300 should now be raised to severity important..
3301 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3302 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3306 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3309 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3314 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3320 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3326 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3332 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3339 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3342 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3343 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3344 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3345 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3349 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3355 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3358 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3359 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3360 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3361 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3362 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3363 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3368 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3371 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3375 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3381 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3384 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3389 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3392 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3393 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3394 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3395 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3399 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3403 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3406 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3409 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3410 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3413 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3415 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3416 the TODO entry about it.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3420 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3427 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3430 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3431 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3435 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3438 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3439 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3440 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3441 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3445 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3451 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3458 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3461 (this appears to be logal).
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3465 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3468 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3469 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3470 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3471 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3475 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3481 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3484 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3485 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3486 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3487 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3491 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3497 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3500 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3504 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3511 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3514 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3515 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3516 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3521 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3528 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3534 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3537 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3538 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3539 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3540 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3541 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3542 notice until v2 is complete.
3543 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3544 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3545 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3546 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3547 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3548 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3550 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3551 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3552 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3553 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3557 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3563 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3570 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3573 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3577 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3584 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3587 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3588 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3589 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3590 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3595 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3598 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3599 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3600 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3605 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3608 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3609 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3613 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3616 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3620 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3623 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3627 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3634 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3637 depend on the build and install targets.
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3641 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3644 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3648 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3655 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3661 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3667 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3670 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3671 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3672 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3673 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3674 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3675 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3677 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3678 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3679 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3680 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3681 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3682 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3683 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3687 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3693 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3699 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3702 right place. Closes: #55065
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3706 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3713 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3716 * Copyright date updates.
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3720 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3723 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3728 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3734 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3741 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3747 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3753 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3759 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3762 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3763 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3764 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3765 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3766 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3767 bits until all files have been registered.
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3771 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * dh_installmanpages:
3774 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3775 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3776 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3777 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3778 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3779 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3780 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3781 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3782 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3783 otherwise change the result at all.
3785 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3786 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3787 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3788 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3789 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3794 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3800 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3803 act on files that don't exist.
3804 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3805 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3806 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3808 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3809 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3810 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3811 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3815 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3821 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3827 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3830 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3834 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3837 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3839 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3840 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3841 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3845 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3848 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3849 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3850 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3851 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3852 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3853 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3854 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3856 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3858 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3862 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3869 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3875 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3881 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3884 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3888 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3894 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3900 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3903 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3904 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3905 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3906 I made some changes, though:
3907 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3908 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3909 that is a clear violation of policy.
3910 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3911 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3912 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3913 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3914 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3915 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3916 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3917 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3918 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3920 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3924 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3930 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3933 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3937 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3940 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3941 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3946 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3952 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3959 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3962 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3963 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3964 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3965 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3966 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3967 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3968 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3972 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3978 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3982 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3983 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3987 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3993 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3996 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4000 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4003 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4004 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4008 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4010 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4015 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4019 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4023 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4026 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4027 for the dependancies to be generated.
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4031 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4034 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4038 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4041 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4042 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4043 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4048 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4051 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4052 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4056 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4062 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4068 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4071 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4075 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4081 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4084 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4085 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4086 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4087 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4088 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4089 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4090 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4091 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4092 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4093 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4094 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4095 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4099 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4102 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4103 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4105 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4106 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4107 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4108 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4109 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4110 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4112 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4113 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4117 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4120 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4124 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4131 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4134 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4139 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4142 for building debhelper.
4143 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4147 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4154 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4157 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4161 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4164 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4165 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4166 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4167 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4168 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4169 it's always available.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4176 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4177 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4178 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4182 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4185 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4186 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4190 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4196 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4199 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4203 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4209 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4212 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4213 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4214 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4218 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4221 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4226 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4229 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4230 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4232 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4233 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4237 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4243 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4249 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4252 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4256 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4259 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4260 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4262 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4266 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4269 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4270 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4271 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4275 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4278 things if CDPATH is set.
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4282 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4288 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4291 seems to make sense for the transition.
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4295 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4298 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4306 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4307 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4311 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4314 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4318 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4320 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4321 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4322 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4323 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4324 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4328 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4334 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4337 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4338 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4339 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4340 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4341 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4342 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4343 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4344 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4345 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4346 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4351 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4354 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4355 * README: mention doc/v2
4356 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4357 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4361 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4363 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4364 be using this script RSN.
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4368 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4371 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4372 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4373 more than 1 init script.
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4377 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4380 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4384 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * Changed perl version detection.
4387 * Changed call to find.
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4391 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4394 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4396 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4401 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * Really include dh_installpam.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4407 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4410 * Wrote man page for same.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4414 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4417 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4418 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4423 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4430 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4433 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4434 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4435 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4436 x bit was being set!
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4440 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4443 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4444 well. (Closes: 38900)
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4448 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4451 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4452 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4456 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4462 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4469 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4475 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4478 help from Julian Gilbey.
4479 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4480 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4481 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4482 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4483 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4484 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4485 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4490 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4496 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4503 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4509 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4515 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4518 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4522 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4525 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4529 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4532 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4536 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4542 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4545 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4549 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4555 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4561 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4564 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4565 may be deleted. (#35845)
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4569 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * Various man page enhancements.
4572 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4577 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4579 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4580 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4581 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4585 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4588 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4589 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4590 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4592 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4593 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4598 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4604 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * Another very minor typo fix.
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4610 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * Very minor typo fix.
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4616 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4619 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4620 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4624 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4630 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4633 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4634 variables properly (#34850).
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4638 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4644 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4647 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4648 (automatically generated by build process).
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4652 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4654 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4658 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4661 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4662 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4664 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4668 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4671 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4675 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * README: minor typo fix.
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4681 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4684 leave it at that. :-)
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4688 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4694 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4700 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4703 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4704 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4705 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4709 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4712 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4716 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4719 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4723 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4726 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4727 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4728 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4729 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4733 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4736 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4737 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4738 Craig Small for spotting this.
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4742 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4745 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4746 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4750 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4756 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4759 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4763 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4765 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4766 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4767 working on the last version of debhelper.
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4771 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4774 being made. (#23255)
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4778 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4784 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4787 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4791 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4794 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4795 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4796 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4797 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4801 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4804 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4805 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4806 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4807 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4809 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4810 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4812 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4817 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4823 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4829 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4832 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4833 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4834 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4835 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4836 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4837 suidregister actually supports it.
4838 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4839 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4843 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4850 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4853 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4854 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4855 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4856 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4857 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4858 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4859 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4863 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4865 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4866 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4870 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4873 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4874 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4875 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4876 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4880 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4883 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4885 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4886 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4887 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4888 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4889 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4890 effect, either. (#30118)
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4894 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4900 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4903 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4904 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4908 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4914 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4917 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4918 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4919 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4920 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4924 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4927 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4928 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4932 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4938 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4941 packages, painlessly.
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4945 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4951 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4957 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4963 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * The perl conversion is complete.
4967 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4969 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4970 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4971 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4976 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4979 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4980 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4981 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4985 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4988 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4990 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4992 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4993 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4997 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5000 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5001 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5005 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5011 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5013 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5014 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5015 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5016 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5017 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5018 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5022 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5025 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5026 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5027 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5028 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5032 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5035 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5039 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5042 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5043 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5044 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5045 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5046 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5047 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5048 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5049 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5053 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5059 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5062 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5063 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5064 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5069 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5072 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5076 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5079 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5083 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5086 sections of shared libraries.
5087 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5088 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5089 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5090 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5091 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5092 things you don't want them to.
5093 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5094 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5098 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5101 shared libraries. (#26414)
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5105 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5107 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5108 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5109 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5110 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5114 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5118 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5120 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5121 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5122 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5123 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5124 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5128 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5131 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5135 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5138 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5139 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5144 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5147 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5151 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5154 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5155 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5156 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5157 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5158 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5160 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5161 remove debian/files properly.
5162 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5163 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5164 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5165 * Removed bogus menu file.
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5169 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5172 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5176 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5179 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5180 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5181 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5182 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5183 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5184 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5188 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5191 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5192 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5193 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5194 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5198 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5205 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5208 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5209 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5211 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5212 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5213 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5214 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5215 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5216 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5220 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5223 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5224 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5225 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5226 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5227 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5228 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5229 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5230 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5231 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5232 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5233 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5234 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5235 passed any switches.
5236 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5240 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5243 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5244 at all for a long while.
5245 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5246 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5247 large chunks in the process.
5248 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5249 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5250 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5255 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5258 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5260 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5265 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5268 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5269 that don't always have the same files in them.
5270 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5271 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5272 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5276 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5280 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5281 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5282 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5283 updating 27 man pages.
5284 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5285 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5286 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5287 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5288 programs act on. (#25247)
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5292 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5296 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5297 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5298 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5299 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5300 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5301 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5306 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5313 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5320 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5323 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5327 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5333 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5335 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5336 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5337 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5338 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5339 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5340 package by accident.
5341 * Is version 1.0 next?
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5345 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5348 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5349 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5353 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5356 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5357 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5358 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5359 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5360 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5362 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5367 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5370 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5371 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5375 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5378 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5382 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5385 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5386 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5391 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5397 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5400 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5401 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5406 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5412 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5414 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5415 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5416 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5417 past week. Thanks, guys!
5419 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5420 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5421 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5422 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5423 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5424 would do in the same situation.
5425 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5426 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5428 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5430 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5431 permissions changed.
5432 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5433 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5434 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5435 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5436 files are treated identically.
5437 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5438 * Minor man page fixes.
5439 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5440 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5441 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5445 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5448 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5449 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5450 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5451 use -X multiple times, too.
5452 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5453 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5457 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5460 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5461 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5465 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5468 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5472 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5475 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5476 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5477 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5478 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5479 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5480 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5481 shape if you're starting a new package.
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5485 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5488 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5492 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5495 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5496 because of missing symlinks.
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5500 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5506 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5509 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5510 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5511 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5512 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5513 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5515 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5516 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5520 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5522 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5523 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5524 to be changed after the fact :-)
5525 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5529 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5531 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5532 no version string after the -V.
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5536 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5538 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5539 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5544 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5547 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5551 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5554 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5555 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5556 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5557 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5558 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5559 I always welcome corrections!
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5563 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5569 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5572 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5573 * Documented this new switch.
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5577 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5580 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5581 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5582 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5583 no packages use the old behavior.
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5587 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5590 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5591 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5595 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5598 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5602 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5608 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5610 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5611 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5615 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5618 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5619 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5620 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5624 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5630 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5632 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5633 into the source package by accident.
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5637 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5639 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5640 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5641 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5642 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5643 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5644 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5645 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5650 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5654 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5655 inspired to implement some of it.
5656 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5660 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5663 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5667 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5670 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5671 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5675 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5677 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5678 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5679 have done.) (#17598)
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5683 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5689 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5695 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5698 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5702 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5704 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5705 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5706 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5710 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5712 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5713 argument processor in perl.
5714 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5715 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5716 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5717 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5721 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5724 type directories. (#16933)
5725 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5726 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5727 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5728 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5729 are supported. (#16935)
5730 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5735 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5737 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5738 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5742 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5746 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5747 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5748 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5749 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5750 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5751 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5755 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5758 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5759 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5761 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5762 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5763 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5764 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5765 a given package, or -i or -a.
5766 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5767 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5768 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5769 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5770 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5771 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5772 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5773 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5774 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5776 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5777 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5778 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5782 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5784 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5785 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5786 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5791 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5794 does not have a section.
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5798 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5801 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5802 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5803 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5807 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5809 * Fixed typo #16215.
5811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5813 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5815 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5816 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5817 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5818 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5819 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5820 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5825 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5827 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5828 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5829 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5830 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5835 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5841 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5847 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5850 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5851 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5852 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5853 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5854 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5855 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5859 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5861 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5865 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5867 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5868 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5872 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5875 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5876 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5877 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5881 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5884 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5888 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5894 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5896 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5897 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5901 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5903 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5904 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5908 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5910 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5914 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5917 postinst, postrm, etc.
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5921 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5927 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5930 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5931 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5932 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5933 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5934 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5938 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5940 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5941 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5942 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5946 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5949 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5953 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5956 installing package files into.
5957 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5962 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5966 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5970 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5976 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5978 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5979 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5983 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5985 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5986 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5987 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5988 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5989 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5993 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5995 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5996 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5997 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5998 multiple binary packages.
5999 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6000 should rebuild them with this version.
6001 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6005 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6008 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6012 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6015 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6019 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6021 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6022 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6023 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6024 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6025 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6026 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6027 debian/README.debian.
6028 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6029 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6030 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6031 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6032 in a few situations.)
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6036 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6042 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6048 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6051 * Fixed several man pages.
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6055 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6058 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6059 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6063 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6065 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6066 is ready for general use.
6067 * Added man pages for all commands.
6068 * Multiple binary package support.
6069 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6070 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6071 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6073 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6074 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6075 auto-installed as parameters.
6076 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6078 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6081 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6082 the package build directory it is to act on.
6083 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6084 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6085 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6089 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6091 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6092 ready to replace debstd.
6094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400