1 debhelper (5.0.60) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
4 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
5 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:58:35 -0400
9 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
12 debian/package.triggers files.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
16 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
19 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
23 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
26 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
27 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
28 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
29 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
34 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
37 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
41 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
44 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
45 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
47 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
52 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
56 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
57 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
58 * Typo. Closes: #441272
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
62 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
69 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
76 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
79 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
81 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
82 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
83 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
85 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
86 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
87 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
91 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
94 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
95 * Update urls to web page.
96 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
98 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
99 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
103 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
106 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
107 - typo in alternatives call
108 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
110 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
111 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
115 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
118 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
123 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
129 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
135 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
138 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
140 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
141 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
142 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
143 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
144 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
145 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
146 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
147 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
148 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
149 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
150 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
154 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
156 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
157 package install. Closes: #415717
158 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
159 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
160 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
161 script and then remove the python files.
162 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
163 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
164 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
165 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
166 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
167 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
168 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
169 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
170 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
171 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
172 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
173 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
174 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
178 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Correct typo in french translation
184 * Typo. Closes: #400571
185 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
187 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
189 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
190 Closes: #406921, #381940
191 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
193 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
194 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
195 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
196 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
197 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
198 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
199 specified). Closes: #381851
200 * Misc minor changes.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
204 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
211 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
212 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
216 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
222 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
223 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
226 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
227 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
229 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
230 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
231 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
232 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
236 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
239 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
242 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
246 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
248 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
252 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
258 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
259 a difficult situation.
260 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
261 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
262 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
263 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
264 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
265 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
266 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
267 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
268 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
269 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
273 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Non-maintainer upload.
276 * Update of dh_python
277 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
278 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
280 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
281 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
282 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
283 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
284 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
286 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
288 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Non-maintainer upload.
291 * Update of dh_python
292 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
293 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
294 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
295 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
296 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
297 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
298 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
299 specific python version. Closes: #373853
300 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
301 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
303 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
304 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
305 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
306 the not too-distant future).
307 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
308 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
309 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
310 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
311 thus made the build fail.
313 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
315 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Non-maintainer upload.
318 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
320 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
322 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
325 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
326 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
327 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
328 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
329 package. Closes: #301424
330 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
331 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
332 fonts). Closes: #372686
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
336 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
342 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
343 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
344 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
345 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
346 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
347 above, but already depends on that.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
351 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
354 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
355 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
356 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
357 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
358 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
362 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
368 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
374 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
375 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
379 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
382 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
386 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
389 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
390 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
391 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
392 new version (0.24.1).
393 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
394 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
397 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
398 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
399 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
400 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
401 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
402 new directory on their own.
403 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
404 * Fix broken directory removal code.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
408 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
411 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
412 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
413 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
414 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
418 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
421 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
422 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
423 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
424 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
425 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
429 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
435 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Typo. Closes: #358904
439 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
440 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
444 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
445 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
449 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
451 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
452 || exit 0 instead of the intended
454 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
455 ignored. Closes: #337664
457 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
462 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
468 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
473 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
474 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
475 the dh_installdebconf manpage
476 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
477 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
478 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
479 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
483 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
485 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
486 version. Closes: #350607
487 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
488 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
489 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
490 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
494 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
497 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
498 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
499 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
503 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
510 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Minor bug fix from last release.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
516 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
519 language guessing. Closes: #193221
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
523 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
526 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
527 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
528 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
529 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
530 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
531 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
535 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
538 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
539 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
544 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
547 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
551 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
554 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
558 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
561 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
562 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
563 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
564 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
565 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
566 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
570 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
573 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
574 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
575 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
576 link. Closes: #346405
577 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
580 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
581 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
582 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
583 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
584 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
585 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
589 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
596 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
598 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
602 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
605 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
609 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
612 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
617 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
621 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
622 installed. Closes: #342033
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
626 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
629 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
630 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
631 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
636 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
642 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
648 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
652 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
653 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
654 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
658 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
661 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
666 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
668 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
673 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
679 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
681 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
682 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
683 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
684 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
685 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
686 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
687 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
688 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
690 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
694 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
697 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
698 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
702 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
705 in standard man dirs.
706 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
710 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
716 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
719 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
724 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
726 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
731 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
738 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
741 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
742 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
746 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
748 * NMU with maintainer approval.
749 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
750 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
751 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
753 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
755 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
761 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
767 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
769 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
770 mode. Closes: #324161
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
774 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
777 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
778 behavior change. Closes: #249815
779 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
780 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
785 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
787 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
788 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
789 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
790 is necesary for sanity.
791 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
792 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
797 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
799 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
800 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
804 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
806 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
807 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
811 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
817 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
820 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
821 released, so use at your own risk.
822 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
823 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
825 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
826 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
827 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
828 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
829 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
830 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
831 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
832 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
833 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
834 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
835 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
836 including twice per config file line now..
837 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
838 and simplfy the rules file.
839 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
840 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
841 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
843 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
844 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
848 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
850 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
851 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
855 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
857 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
858 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
862 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
864 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
865 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
869 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
872 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
873 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
874 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
875 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
876 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
877 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
881 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
884 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
885 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
886 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
891 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
894 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
895 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
900 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
903 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
904 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
905 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
910 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
913 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
914 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
915 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
919 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
925 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
932 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
935 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
936 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
937 unknown. Closes: #282924
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
941 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
948 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Spanish man page updates.
951 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
956 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
962 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
965 * dh_desktop: reindent
966 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
967 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
971 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
977 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
979 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
983 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
985 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
989 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
992 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
993 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
997 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1003 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1009 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1016 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1019 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1023 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1026 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1027 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1028 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1029 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1030 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1031 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1033 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1034 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1035 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1036 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1037 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1038 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1039 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1040 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1041 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1042 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1043 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1044 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1045 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1046 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1047 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1048 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1052 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1059 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1062 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1066 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1069 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1073 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1076 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1080 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1083 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1087 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1093 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1099 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1105 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1108 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1109 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1110 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1114 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1117 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1121 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1124 but occasionally right and necessary.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1128 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1131 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1132 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1133 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1134 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1135 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1139 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1142 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1144 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1145 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1146 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1147 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1148 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1149 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1150 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1151 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1152 postinst scripts for udebs.
1153 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1157 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1160 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1162 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1163 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1167 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1173 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1180 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1187 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1190 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1194 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1197 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1201 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1204 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1207 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1208 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1212 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1218 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1221 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1225 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1228 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1229 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1230 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1232 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1234 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1235 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1236 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1240 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1243 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1248 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1251 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1252 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1253 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1258 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1264 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1270 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1273 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1274 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1275 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1276 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1277 associated -dbg packages.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1281 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1284 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1288 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1291 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1295 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1298 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1302 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1305 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1310 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1313 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1317 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1320 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1325 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1328 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1332 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1336 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1337 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1338 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1339 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1340 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1341 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1342 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1343 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1344 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1345 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1349 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1352 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1357 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1360 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1361 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1365 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1368 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1369 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1374 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1377 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1381 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1384 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1388 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1391 out section number. Closes: #204731
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1395 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1402 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1408 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1414 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1417 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1418 removal. Closes: #204286
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1422 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1425 renaming. Closes: #203548
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1429 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1432 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1433 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1437 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1443 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1449 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1455 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1458 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1459 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1460 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1464 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1467 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1468 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1472 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1478 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1485 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1488 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1493 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1496 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1500 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1503 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1505 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1506 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1510 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1513 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1518 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1521 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1525 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1531 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1533 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1537 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1540 it break hard links (see #188663).
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1544 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1547 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1551 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1557 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1561 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1562 debconf-mergetemplates
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1566 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1569 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1573 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1576 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1580 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1583 * Update debhelper(1).
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1587 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1590 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1591 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1592 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1593 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1594 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1598 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1601 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1602 the shell. Closes: #178524
1603 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1607 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1610 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1614 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1617 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1621 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1624 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1625 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1626 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1627 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1632 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1635 files from installation.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1639 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1642 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1643 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1647 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1650 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1654 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1657 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1661 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1667 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1673 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1677 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1678 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1680 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1684 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1687 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1688 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1689 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1690 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1694 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1697 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1701 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1704 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1705 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1709 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1713 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1718 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1724 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1728 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1729 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1730 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1735 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1738 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1739 practice. Closes: #163303
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1743 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1749 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1756 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1759 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1761 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1762 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1763 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1764 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1765 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1769 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1772 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1777 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1783 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1790 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1793 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1798 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1804 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1810 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1816 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1823 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1826 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1827 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1828 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1829 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1834 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1840 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1847 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1850 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1851 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1855 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1858 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1859 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1860 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1861 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1862 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1866 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1869 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1871 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1876 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1879 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1883 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1886 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1887 right thing. Closes: #150644
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1891 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Stupid, evil typo.
1894 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1898 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1905 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1908 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1909 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1914 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1920 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1923 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1927 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1930 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1931 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1936 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1939 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1943 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1949 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1952 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1953 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1957 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1963 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Removing perl warning message.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1969 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1972 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1973 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1974 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1975 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1976 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1977 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1978 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1979 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1983 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1989 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1999 debconf-mergetemplate.
2000 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2001 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2005 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2008 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2009 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2010 dh_install, which ...
2011 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2012 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2013 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2014 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2015 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2016 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2017 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2018 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2019 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2020 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2021 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2022 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2023 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2024 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2025 other minor changes.
2026 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2027 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2028 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2029 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2030 course there's -X ..)
2031 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2032 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2033 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2035 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2036 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2037 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2038 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2039 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2044 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2050 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2053 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2057 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2063 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2069 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2075 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2081 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2084 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2085 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2086 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2087 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2089 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2090 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2094 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2100 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2103 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2107 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2110 upset. Closes: #131322
2112 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2114 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2117 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2118 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2119 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2120 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2121 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2122 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2123 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2124 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2125 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2126 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2127 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2128 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2129 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2130 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2131 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2133 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2137 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2140 - Better indenting of generated code.
2141 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2145 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2149 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2150 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2151 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2152 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2153 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2154 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2155 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2159 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2162 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2166 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2169 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2170 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2171 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2172 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2173 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2174 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2175 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2176 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2177 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2178 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2179 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2180 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2181 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2182 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2183 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2188 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2194 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2197 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2198 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2202 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2205 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2206 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2210 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2216 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2219 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2220 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2221 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2222 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2223 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2228 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2234 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2237 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2241 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2244 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2249 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2255 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2258 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2262 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2268 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2272 Also some indentation fixes.
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2276 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2279 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2280 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2281 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2282 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2283 Closes: #106514, #85520
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2287 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2293 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2299 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2305 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2311 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2317 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2320 change it in debhelper v4..
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2324 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2330 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2333 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2337 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2340 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2344 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2350 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2353 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2354 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2355 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2356 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2357 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2358 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2359 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2360 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2361 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2362 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2363 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2364 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2368 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2371 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2375 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2382 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2385 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2386 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2387 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2388 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2389 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2390 program those options go to. So, for example,
2391 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2392 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2393 something complex. Closes: #89311
2394 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2398 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2401 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2402 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2403 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2407 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2410 through loop. Closes: #98598
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2414 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Missing semi-colon.
2417 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2418 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2422 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2425 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2426 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2427 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2431 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2434 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2435 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2439 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2442 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2446 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2449 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2450 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2454 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2457 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2458 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2459 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2463 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2466 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2467 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2468 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2472 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2475 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2479 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2485 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2491 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2497 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2503 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2506 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2510 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2513 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2514 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2515 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2516 followed. Closes: #85483
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2520 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2522 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2523 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2524 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2528 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2531 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2532 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2533 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2534 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2535 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2536 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2537 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2538 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2539 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2540 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2541 Closes: #88464, #77743
2542 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2543 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2544 us to deal with that gracefully.
2545 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2547 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2548 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2549 a while, Closes: #51225
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2553 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2559 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2562 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2566 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2570 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2575 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2578 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2579 don't make packlist files.
2580 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2581 debhelper coding standards.
2582 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2583 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2587 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2590 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2594 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2597 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2598 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2599 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2600 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2601 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2602 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2603 but is mildly deprecated.
2604 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2605 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2606 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2607 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2608 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2609 switching to statoverrides..
2610 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2611 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2612 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2613 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2614 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2615 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2617 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2618 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2619 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2620 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2621 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2622 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2623 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2624 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2625 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2627 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2628 variable names, pod man pages).
2629 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2630 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2631 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2632 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2633 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2634 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2635 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2639 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2645 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2652 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2655 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2659 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2661 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2662 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2663 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2667 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2669 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2670 they were previously ignored.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2674 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2676 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2677 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2681 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2683 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2684 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2685 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2689 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2691 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2695 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2697 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2698 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2702 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2704 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2705 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2706 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2707 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2708 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2709 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2710 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2711 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2712 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2713 it is an obsolete program.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2717 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2719 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2723 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2727 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2729 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2733 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2735 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2737 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2739 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2743 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2749 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * typo: Closes, #78567
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2755 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2761 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2767 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2770 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2771 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2772 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2773 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2774 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2778 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2781 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2786 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2789 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2790 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2791 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2792 backwards-compatability.
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2796 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2799 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2800 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2801 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2802 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2803 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2804 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2806 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2807 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2808 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2810 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2812 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2813 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2814 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2815 should now be raised to severity important..
2816 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2817 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2821 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2824 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2829 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2835 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2841 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2847 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2854 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2857 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2858 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2859 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2860 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2864 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2870 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2873 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2874 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2875 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2876 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2877 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2878 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2883 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2886 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2890 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2896 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2899 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2904 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2907 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2908 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2909 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2910 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2914 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2918 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2921 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2924 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2925 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2928 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2930 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2931 the TODO entry about it.
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2935 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2942 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2945 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2946 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2950 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2953 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2954 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2955 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2956 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2960 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2966 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2973 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2976 (this appears to be logal).
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2980 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2983 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2984 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2985 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2986 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2990 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2996 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2999 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3000 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3001 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3002 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3006 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3012 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3015 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3019 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3026 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3029 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3030 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3031 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3036 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3043 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3049 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3052 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3053 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3054 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3055 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3056 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3057 notice until v2 is complete.
3058 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3059 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3060 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3061 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3062 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3063 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3065 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3066 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3067 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3068 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3072 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3078 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3085 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3088 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3092 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3099 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3102 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3103 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3104 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3105 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3110 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3113 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3114 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3115 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3120 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3123 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3124 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3128 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3131 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3135 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3138 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3142 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3149 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3152 depend on the build and install targets.
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3156 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3159 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3163 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3170 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3176 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3182 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3185 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3186 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3187 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3188 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3189 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3190 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3192 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3193 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3194 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3195 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3196 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3197 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3198 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3202 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3208 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3214 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3217 right place. Closes: #55065
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3221 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3228 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3231 * Copyright date updates.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3235 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3238 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3243 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3249 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3256 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3262 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3268 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3274 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3277 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3278 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3279 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3280 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3281 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3282 bits until all files have been registered.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3286 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * dh_installmanpages:
3289 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3290 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3291 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3292 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3293 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3294 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3295 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3296 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3297 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3298 otherwise change the result at all.
3300 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3301 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3302 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3303 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3304 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3309 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3315 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3318 act on files that don't exist.
3319 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3320 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3321 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3323 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3324 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3325 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3326 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3330 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3336 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3342 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3345 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3349 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3352 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3354 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3355 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3356 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3360 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3363 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3364 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3365 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3366 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3367 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3368 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3369 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3371 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3373 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3377 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3384 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3390 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3396 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3399 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3403 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3409 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3415 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3418 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3419 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3420 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3421 I made some changes, though:
3422 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3423 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3424 that is a clear violation of policy.
3425 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3426 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3427 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3428 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3429 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3430 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3431 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3432 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3433 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3435 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3439 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3445 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3448 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3452 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3455 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3456 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3461 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3467 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3474 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3477 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3478 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3479 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3480 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3481 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3482 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3483 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3487 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3493 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3497 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3498 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3502 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3508 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3511 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3515 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3518 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3519 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3523 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3525 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3530 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3534 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3538 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3541 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3542 for the dependancies to be generated.
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3546 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3549 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3553 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3556 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3557 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3558 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3563 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3566 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3567 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3571 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3577 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3583 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3586 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3590 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3596 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3599 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3600 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3601 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3602 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3603 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3604 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3605 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3606 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3607 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3608 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3609 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3610 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3614 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3617 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3618 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3620 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3621 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3622 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3623 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3624 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3625 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3627 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3628 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3632 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3635 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3639 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3646 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3649 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3654 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3657 for building debhelper.
3658 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3662 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3669 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3672 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3676 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3679 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3680 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3681 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3682 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3683 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3684 it's always available.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3688 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3691 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3692 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3693 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3697 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3700 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3701 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3705 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3711 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3714 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3718 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3724 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3727 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3728 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3729 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3733 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3736 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3741 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3744 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3745 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3747 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3748 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3752 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3758 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3764 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3767 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3771 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3774 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3775 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3777 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3781 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3784 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3785 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3786 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3790 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3793 things if CDPATH is set.
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3797 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3803 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3806 seems to make sense for the transition.
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3810 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3813 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3818 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3821 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3822 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3826 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3829 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3833 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3836 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3837 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3838 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3839 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3843 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3849 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3852 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3853 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3854 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3855 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3856 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3857 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3858 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3859 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3860 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3861 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3866 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3869 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3870 * README: mention doc/v2
3871 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3872 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3876 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3878 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3879 be using this script RSN.
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3883 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3886 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3887 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3888 more than 1 init script.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3892 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3895 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3899 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Changed perl version detection.
3902 * Changed call to find.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3906 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3909 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3911 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3916 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * Really include dh_installpam.
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3922 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3925 * Wrote man page for same.
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3929 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3932 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3933 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3938 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3945 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3948 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3949 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3950 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3951 x bit was being set!
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3955 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3958 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3959 well. (Closes: 38900)
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3963 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3966 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3967 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3971 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3977 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3984 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3990 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3993 help from Julian Gilbey.
3994 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3995 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3996 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3997 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3998 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3999 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4000 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4005 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4011 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4018 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4024 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4030 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4033 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4037 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4040 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4044 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4047 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4051 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4057 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4060 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4064 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4070 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4076 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4079 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4080 may be deleted. (#35845)
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4084 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * Various man page enhancements.
4087 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4092 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4095 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4096 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4100 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4103 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4104 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4105 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4107 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4108 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4113 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4119 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * Another very minor typo fix.
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4125 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * Very minor typo fix.
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4131 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4134 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4135 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4139 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4145 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4148 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4149 variables properly (#34850).
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4153 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4159 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4162 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4163 (automatically generated by build process).
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4167 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4169 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4173 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4176 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4177 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4179 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4183 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4186 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4190 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * README: minor typo fix.
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4196 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4199 leave it at that. :-)
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4203 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4209 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4215 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4218 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4219 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4220 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4224 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4227 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4231 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4234 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4238 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4241 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4242 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4243 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4244 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4248 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4251 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4252 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4253 Craig Small for spotting this.
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4257 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4260 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4261 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4265 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4267 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4271 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4274 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4278 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4280 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4281 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4282 working on the last version of debhelper.
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4286 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4289 being made. (#23255)
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4293 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4299 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4302 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4306 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4309 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4310 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4311 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4312 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4316 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4319 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4320 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4321 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4322 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4324 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4325 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4327 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4332 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4338 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4340 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4344 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4347 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4348 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4349 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4350 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4351 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4352 suidregister actually supports it.
4353 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4354 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4358 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4365 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4368 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4369 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4370 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4371 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4372 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4373 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4374 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4378 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4380 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4381 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4385 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4388 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4389 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4390 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4391 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4395 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4398 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4400 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4401 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4402 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4403 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4404 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4405 effect, either. (#30118)
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4409 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4415 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4418 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4419 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4423 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4429 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4432 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4433 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4434 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4435 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4439 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4442 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4443 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4447 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4453 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4456 packages, painlessly.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4460 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4466 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4472 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4478 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * The perl conversion is complete.
4482 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4484 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4485 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4486 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4491 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4494 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4495 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4496 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4500 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4503 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4505 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4507 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4508 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4512 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4515 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4516 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4520 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4526 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4529 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4530 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4531 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4532 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4533 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4537 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4540 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4541 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4542 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4543 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4547 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4550 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4554 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4557 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4558 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4559 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4560 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4561 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4562 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4563 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4564 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4568 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4574 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4577 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4578 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4579 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4584 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4586 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4587 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4591 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4594 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4598 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4601 sections of shared libraries.
4602 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4603 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4604 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4605 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4606 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4607 things you don't want them to.
4608 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4609 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4613 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4616 shared libraries. (#26414)
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4620 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4622 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4623 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4624 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4625 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4629 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4633 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4635 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4636 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4637 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4638 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4639 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4643 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4646 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4650 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4653 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4654 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4659 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4662 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4666 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4669 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4670 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4671 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4672 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4673 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4675 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4676 remove debian/files properly.
4677 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4678 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4679 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4680 * Removed bogus menu file.
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4684 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4687 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4691 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4694 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4695 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4696 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4697 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4698 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4699 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4703 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4706 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4707 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4708 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4709 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4713 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4720 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4723 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4724 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4726 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4727 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4728 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4729 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4730 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4731 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4735 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4738 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4739 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4740 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4741 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4742 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4743 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4744 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4745 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4746 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4747 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4748 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4749 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4750 passed any switches.
4751 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4755 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4758 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4759 at all for a long while.
4760 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4761 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4762 large chunks in the process.
4763 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4764 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4765 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4770 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4773 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4775 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4780 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4783 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4784 that don't always have the same files in them.
4785 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4786 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4787 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4791 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4795 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4796 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4797 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4798 updating 27 man pages.
4799 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4800 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4801 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4802 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4803 programs act on. (#25247)
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4807 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4811 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4812 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4813 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4814 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4815 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4816 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4821 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4828 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4835 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4838 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4842 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4848 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4851 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4852 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4853 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4854 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4855 package by accident.
4856 * Is version 1.0 next?
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4860 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4863 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4864 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4868 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4871 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4872 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4873 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4874 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4875 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4877 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4882 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4885 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4886 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4890 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4893 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4897 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4900 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4901 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4906 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4912 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4914 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4915 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4916 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4921 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4927 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4930 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4931 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4932 past week. Thanks, guys!
4934 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4935 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4936 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4937 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4938 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4939 would do in the same situation.
4940 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4941 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4943 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4945 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4946 permissions changed.
4947 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4948 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4949 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4950 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4951 files are treated identically.
4952 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4953 * Minor man page fixes.
4954 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4955 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4956 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4960 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4963 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4964 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4965 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4966 use -X multiple times, too.
4967 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4968 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4972 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4975 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4976 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4980 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4983 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4987 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4990 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4991 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4992 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4993 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4994 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4995 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4996 shape if you're starting a new package.
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5000 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5003 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5007 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5010 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5011 because of missing symlinks.
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5015 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5021 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5024 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5025 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5026 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5027 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5028 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5030 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5031 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5035 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5037 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5038 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5039 to be changed after the fact :-)
5040 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5044 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5046 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5047 no version string after the -V.
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5051 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5053 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5054 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5059 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5062 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5066 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5069 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5070 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5071 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5072 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5073 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5074 I always welcome corrections!
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5078 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5084 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5086 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5087 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5088 * Documented this new switch.
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5092 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5095 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5096 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5097 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5098 no packages use the old behavior.
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5102 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5105 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5106 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5110 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5113 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5117 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5123 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5126 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5130 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5133 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5134 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5135 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5139 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5145 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5148 into the source package by accident.
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5152 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5155 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5156 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5157 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5158 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5159 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5160 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5165 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5169 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5170 inspired to implement some of it.
5171 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5175 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5178 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5182 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5185 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5186 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5190 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5193 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5194 have done.) (#17598)
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5198 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5204 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5210 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5213 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5217 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5220 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5221 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5225 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5228 argument processor in perl.
5229 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5230 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5231 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5232 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5236 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5239 type directories. (#16933)
5240 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5241 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5242 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5243 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5244 are supported. (#16935)
5245 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5250 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5253 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5257 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5261 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5262 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5263 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5264 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5265 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5266 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5270 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5273 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5274 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5276 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5277 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5278 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5279 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5280 a given package, or -i or -a.
5281 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5282 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5283 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5284 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5285 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5286 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5287 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5288 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5289 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5291 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5292 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5293 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5297 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5300 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5301 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5306 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5309 does not have a section.
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5313 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5316 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5317 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5318 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5322 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * Fixed typo #16215.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5328 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5331 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5332 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5333 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5334 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5335 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5340 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5343 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5344 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5345 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5350 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5356 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5362 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5365 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5366 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5367 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5368 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5369 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5370 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5374 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5380 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5383 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5387 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5390 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5391 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5392 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5396 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5399 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5403 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5409 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5412 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5416 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5419 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5423 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5429 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5432 postinst, postrm, etc.
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5436 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5442 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5445 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5446 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5447 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5448 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5449 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5453 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5456 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5457 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5461 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5464 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5468 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5471 installing package files into.
5472 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5477 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5481 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5485 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5491 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5494 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5498 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5500 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5501 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5502 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5503 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5504 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5508 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5510 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5511 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5512 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5513 multiple binary packages.
5514 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5515 should rebuild them with this version.
5516 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5520 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5523 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5527 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5530 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5534 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5537 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5538 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5539 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5540 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5541 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5542 debian/README.debian.
5543 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5544 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5545 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5546 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5547 in a few situations.)
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5551 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5557 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5559 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5563 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5566 * Fixed several man pages.
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5570 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5573 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5574 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5578 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5581 is ready for general use.
5582 * Added man pages for all commands.
5583 * Multiple binary package support.
5584 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5585 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5586 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5588 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5589 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5590 auto-installed as parameters.
5591 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5593 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5596 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5597 the package build directory it is to act on.
5598 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5599 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5600 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5604 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5606 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5607 ready to replace debstd.
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400