1 debhelper (7.2.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
5 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
6 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 May 2009 14:50:33 -0400
11 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
13 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
14 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
15 parameters. Closes: #527256
16 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
17 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
18 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
22 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
26 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
27 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
28 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
32 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
35 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
36 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
37 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
41 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
44 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
45 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
47 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
48 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
49 by triggers). Closes: #521181
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
53 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
57 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
61 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
64 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
65 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
66 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
67 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
72 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
78 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
81 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
82 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
83 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
84 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
85 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
87 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
88 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
89 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
90 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
91 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
92 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
96 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
99 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
100 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
101 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
102 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
103 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
105 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
109 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
111 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
115 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
117 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
118 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
119 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
120 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
121 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
122 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
123 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
124 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
125 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
126 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
127 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
131 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
133 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
134 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
136 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
137 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
138 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
139 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
141 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
142 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
146 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
148 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
149 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
150 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
151 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
152 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
153 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
154 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
156 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
157 that uses them. Affected options are:
158 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
159 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
160 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
161 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
162 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
163 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
164 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
165 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
166 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
167 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
168 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
169 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
173 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
175 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
180 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
186 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
188 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
189 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
191 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
192 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
193 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
194 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
195 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
197 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
199 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
200 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
201 rules (see bug #509756).
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
205 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
211 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
212 * Typo. Closes: #493062
213 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
214 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
218 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
221 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
222 empty files. Closes: #490937
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
226 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
232 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
239 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
242 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
243 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
244 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
245 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
250 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
252 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
253 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
254 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
255 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
259 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
262 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
263 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
264 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
265 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
266 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
270 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
277 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
279 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
280 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
281 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
282 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
283 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
284 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
285 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
286 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
287 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
288 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
292 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
295 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
296 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
297 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
298 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
300 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
301 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
302 breaking backwards compatability.
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
306 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
308 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
309 message in perl 5.10.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
313 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
319 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Convert copyright file to new format.
322 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
326 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
329 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
333 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
336 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
337 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
338 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
339 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
340 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
341 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
342 logging by dh_listpackages.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
346 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
349 run and there are no packages of that type.
350 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
351 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
352 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
353 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
355 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
356 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
360 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
362 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
363 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
364 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
368 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
371 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
372 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
374 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
375 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
376 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
377 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
378 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
379 planned but not yet implemented.)
380 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
381 if the Makefile has such a target.
382 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
383 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
384 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
385 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
386 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
387 but not yet implemented.)
388 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
389 recommended default, especially when using dh.
390 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
391 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
392 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
394 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
396 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
397 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
399 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
400 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
401 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
406 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
409 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
410 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
414 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
416 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
417 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
418 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
422 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
428 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
434 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
437 just those installed by the program.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
441 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
444 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
445 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
449 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
452 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
453 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
454 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
455 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
459 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
462 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
463 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
467 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
469 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
470 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
471 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
475 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
478 with policy. Closes: #461392
479 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
480 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
481 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
482 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
483 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
487 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
489 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
490 Closes: #460340, #460351
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
494 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
497 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
498 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
499 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
500 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
504 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
507 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
508 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
509 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
510 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
511 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
512 package build directory won't work.
513 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
514 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
515 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
516 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
517 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
518 mode. Closes: #459426
519 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
524 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
527 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
531 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
533 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
535 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
536 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
537 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
538 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
539 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
540 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
544 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
547 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
548 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
549 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
550 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
554 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
557 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
558 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
559 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
560 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
561 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
565 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
568 debian/package.triggers files.
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
572 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
575 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
579 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
582 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
583 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
584 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
585 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
590 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
593 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
597 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
600 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
601 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
603 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
608 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
612 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
613 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
614 * Typo. Closes: #441272
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
618 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
625 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
627 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
632 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
634 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
635 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
637 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
638 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
639 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
641 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
642 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
643 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
647 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
650 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
651 * Update urls to web page.
652 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
654 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
655 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
659 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
661 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
662 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
663 - typo in alternatives call
664 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
666 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
667 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
671 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
674 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
679 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
685 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
691 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
694 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
696 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
697 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
698 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
699 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
700 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
701 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
702 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
703 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
704 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
705 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
706 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
710 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
713 package install. Closes: #415717
714 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
715 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
716 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
717 script and then remove the python files.
718 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
719 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
720 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
721 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
722 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
723 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
724 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
725 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
726 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
727 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
728 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
729 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
730 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
734 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Correct typo in french translation
740 * Typo. Closes: #400571
741 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
743 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
745 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
746 Closes: #406921, #381940
747 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
749 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
750 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
751 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
752 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
753 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
754 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
755 specified). Closes: #381851
756 * Misc minor changes.
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
760 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
767 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
768 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
772 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
775 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
778 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
779 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
782 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
783 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
785 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
786 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
787 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
788 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
792 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
795 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
798 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
802 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
808 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
811 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
814 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
815 a difficult situation.
816 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
817 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
818 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
819 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
820 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
821 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
822 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
823 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
824 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
825 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
829 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Non-maintainer upload.
832 * Update of dh_python
833 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
834 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
836 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
837 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
838 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
839 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
840 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
842 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
844 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Non-maintainer upload.
847 * Update of dh_python
848 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
849 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
850 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
851 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
852 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
853 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
854 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
855 specific python version. Closes: #373853
856 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
857 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
859 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
860 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
861 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
862 the not too-distant future).
863 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
864 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
865 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
866 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
867 thus made the build fail.
869 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
871 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Non-maintainer upload.
874 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
876 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
878 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
881 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
882 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
883 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
884 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
885 package. Closes: #301424
886 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
887 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
888 fonts). Closes: #372686
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
892 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
898 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
899 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
900 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
901 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
902 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
903 above, but already depends on that.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
907 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
910 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
911 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
912 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
913 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
914 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
918 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
920 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
924 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
930 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
931 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
935 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
938 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
942 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
946 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
947 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
948 new version (0.24.1).
949 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
950 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
953 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
954 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
955 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
956 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
957 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
958 new directory on their own.
959 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
960 * Fix broken directory removal code.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
964 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
967 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
968 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
969 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
970 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
974 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
977 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
978 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
979 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
980 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
981 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
985 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
991 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Typo. Closes: #358904
995 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
996 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1000 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1001 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1005 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1007 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1008 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1010 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1011 ignored. Closes: #337664
1013 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1018 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1024 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1029 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1030 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1031 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1032 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1033 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1034 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1035 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1039 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1042 version. Closes: #350607
1043 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1044 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1045 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1046 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1050 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1053 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1054 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1055 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1059 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1066 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1072 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1075 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1079 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1082 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1083 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1084 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1085 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1086 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1087 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1091 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1094 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1095 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1100 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1103 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1107 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1110 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1114 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1117 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1118 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1119 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1120 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1121 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1122 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1126 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1130 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1131 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1132 link. Closes: #346405
1133 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1135 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1136 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1137 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1138 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1139 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1140 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1141 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1145 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1152 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1158 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1161 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1165 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1168 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1173 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1177 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1178 installed. Closes: #342033
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1182 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1185 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1186 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1187 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1192 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1198 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1204 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1208 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1209 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1210 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1214 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1217 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1222 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1229 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1235 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1238 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1239 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1240 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1241 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1242 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1243 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1244 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1246 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1250 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1253 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1254 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1258 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1261 in standard man dirs.
1262 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1266 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1272 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1275 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1280 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1287 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1294 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1297 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1298 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1302 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1305 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1306 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1307 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1309 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1311 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1317 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1323 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1326 mode. Closes: #324161
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1330 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1333 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1334 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1335 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1336 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1341 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1344 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1345 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1346 is necesary for sanity.
1347 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1348 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1353 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1355 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1356 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1360 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1363 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1367 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1373 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1376 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1377 released, so use at your own risk.
1378 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1379 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1381 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1382 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1383 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1384 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1385 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1386 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1387 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1388 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1389 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1390 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1391 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1392 including twice per config file line now..
1393 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1394 and simplfy the rules file.
1395 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1396 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1397 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1399 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1400 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1404 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1407 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1411 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1414 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1418 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1421 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1425 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1428 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1429 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1430 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1431 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1432 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1433 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1437 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1440 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1441 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1442 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1447 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1450 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1451 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1456 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1459 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1460 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1461 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1466 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1469 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1470 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1471 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1475 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1481 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1488 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1491 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1492 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1493 unknown. Closes: #282924
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1497 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1504 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Spanish man page updates.
1507 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1512 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1518 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1521 * dh_desktop: reindent
1522 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1523 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1527 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1533 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1535 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1539 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1541 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1545 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1548 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1549 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1553 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1559 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1565 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1572 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1575 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1579 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1582 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1583 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1584 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1585 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1586 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1587 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1589 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1590 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1591 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1592 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1593 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1594 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1595 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1596 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1597 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1598 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1599 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1600 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1601 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1602 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1603 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1604 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1608 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1615 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1618 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1622 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1625 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1629 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1632 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1636 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1639 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1643 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1649 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1655 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1661 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1664 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1665 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1666 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1670 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1673 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1677 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1680 but occasionally right and necessary.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1684 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1687 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1688 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1689 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1690 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1691 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1695 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1698 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1700 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1701 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1702 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1703 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1704 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1705 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1706 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1707 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1708 postinst scripts for udebs.
1709 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1713 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1716 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1718 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1719 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1723 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1729 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1736 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1743 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1746 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1750 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1753 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1757 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1760 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1763 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1764 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1768 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1774 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1777 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1781 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1784 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1785 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1786 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1788 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1790 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1791 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1792 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1796 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1799 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1804 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1807 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1808 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1809 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1814 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1820 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1826 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1829 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1830 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1831 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1832 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1833 associated -dbg packages.
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1837 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1840 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1844 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1847 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1851 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1854 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1858 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1861 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1866 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1869 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1873 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1876 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1881 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1884 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1888 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1892 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1893 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1894 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1895 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1896 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1897 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1898 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1899 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1900 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1901 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1905 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1908 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1913 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1916 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1917 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1921 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1924 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1925 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1930 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1933 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1937 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1940 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1944 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1947 out section number. Closes: #204731
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1951 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1958 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1964 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1970 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1973 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1974 removal. Closes: #204286
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1978 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1981 renaming. Closes: #203548
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1985 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1988 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1989 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1993 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1999 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2005 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2011 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2014 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2015 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2016 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2023 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2024 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2028 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2034 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2041 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2044 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2049 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2052 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2056 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2059 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2061 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2062 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2066 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2069 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2074 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2077 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2081 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2089 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2093 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2096 it break hard links (see #188663).
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2100 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2103 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2107 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2113 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2117 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2118 debconf-mergetemplates
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2122 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2125 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2129 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2132 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2136 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2139 * Update debhelper(1).
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2143 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2146 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2147 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2148 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2149 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2150 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2154 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2157 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2158 the shell. Closes: #178524
2159 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2163 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2166 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2170 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2173 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2177 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2180 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2181 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2182 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2183 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2188 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2191 files from installation.
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2195 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2198 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2199 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2203 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2206 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2210 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2213 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2217 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2223 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2229 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2233 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2234 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2236 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2240 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2243 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2244 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2245 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2246 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2250 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2253 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2257 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2260 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2261 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2265 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2269 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2274 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2280 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2284 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2285 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2286 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2291 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2294 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2295 practice. Closes: #163303
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2299 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2305 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2312 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2315 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2317 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2318 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2319 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2320 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2321 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2325 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2328 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2333 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2339 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2346 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2349 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2354 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2360 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2366 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2379 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2382 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2383 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2384 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2385 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2390 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2396 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2403 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2406 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2407 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2411 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2414 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2415 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2416 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2417 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2418 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2422 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2425 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2427 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2432 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2435 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2439 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2442 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2443 right thing. Closes: #150644
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2447 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Stupid, evil typo.
2450 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2454 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2461 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2464 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2465 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2470 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2476 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2479 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2483 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2486 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2487 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2492 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2495 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2499 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2505 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2508 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2509 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2513 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2519 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Removing perl warning message.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2525 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2528 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2529 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2530 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2531 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2532 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2533 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2534 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2535 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2539 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2545 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2555 debconf-mergetemplate.
2556 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2557 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2561 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2564 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2565 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2566 dh_install, which ...
2567 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2568 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2569 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2570 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2571 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2572 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2573 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2574 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2575 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2576 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2577 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2578 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2579 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2580 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2581 other minor changes.
2582 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2583 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2584 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2585 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2586 course there's -X ..)
2587 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2588 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2589 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2591 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2592 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2593 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2594 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2595 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2600 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2606 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2609 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2613 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2619 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2625 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2631 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2637 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2640 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2641 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2642 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2643 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2645 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2646 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2650 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2656 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2659 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2663 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2666 upset. Closes: #131322
2668 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2670 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2673 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2674 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2675 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2676 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2677 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2678 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2679 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2680 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2681 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2682 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2683 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2684 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2685 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2686 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2687 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2689 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2693 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2696 - Better indenting of generated code.
2697 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2701 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2705 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2706 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2707 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2708 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2709 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2710 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2711 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2715 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2718 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2722 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2725 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2726 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2727 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2728 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2729 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2730 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2731 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2732 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2733 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2734 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2735 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2736 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2737 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2738 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2739 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2744 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2750 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2753 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2754 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2758 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2761 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2762 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2766 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2772 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2775 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2776 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2777 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2778 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2779 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2784 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2790 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2793 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2797 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2800 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2805 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2811 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2814 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2818 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2824 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2828 Also some indentation fixes.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2832 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2835 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2836 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2837 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2838 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2839 Closes: #106514, #85520
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2843 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2849 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2855 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2861 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2867 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2873 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2876 change it in debhelper v4..
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2880 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2886 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2889 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2893 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2896 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2900 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2906 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2909 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2910 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2911 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2912 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2913 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2914 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2915 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2916 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2917 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2918 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2919 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2920 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2924 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2927 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2931 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2938 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2941 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2942 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2943 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2944 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2945 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2946 program those options go to. So, for example,
2947 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2948 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2949 something complex. Closes: #89311
2950 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2954 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2957 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2958 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2959 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2963 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2966 through loop. Closes: #98598
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2970 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Missing semi-colon.
2973 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2974 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2978 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2981 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2982 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2983 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2987 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2990 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2991 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2995 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2998 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3002 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3005 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3006 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3010 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3013 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3014 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3015 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3019 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3022 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3023 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3024 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3028 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3031 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3035 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3041 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3047 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3053 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3059 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3062 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3066 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3069 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3070 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3071 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3072 followed. Closes: #85483
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3076 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3078 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3079 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3080 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3084 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3087 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3088 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3089 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3090 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3091 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3092 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3093 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3094 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3095 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3096 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3097 Closes: #88464, #77743
3098 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3099 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3100 us to deal with that gracefully.
3101 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3103 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3104 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3105 a while, Closes: #51225
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3109 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3115 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3118 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3122 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3126 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3131 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3134 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3135 don't make packlist files.
3136 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3137 debhelper coding standards.
3138 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3139 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3143 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3146 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3150 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3153 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3154 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3155 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3156 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3157 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3158 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3159 but is mildly deprecated.
3160 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3161 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3162 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3163 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3164 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3165 switching to statoverrides..
3166 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3167 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3168 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3169 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3170 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3171 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3173 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3174 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3175 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3176 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3177 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3178 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3179 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3180 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3181 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3183 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3184 variable names, pod man pages).
3185 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3186 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3187 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3188 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3189 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3190 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3191 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3195 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3201 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3208 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3211 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3215 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3217 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3218 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3219 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3223 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3225 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3226 they were previously ignored.
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3230 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3232 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3233 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3237 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3239 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3240 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3241 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3245 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3247 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3251 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3253 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3254 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3258 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3260 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3261 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3262 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3263 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3264 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3265 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3266 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3267 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3268 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3269 it is an obsolete program.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3273 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3275 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3279 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3283 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3285 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3289 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3291 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3293 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3295 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3299 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3305 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * typo: Closes, #78567
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3311 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3317 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3323 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3326 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3327 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3328 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3329 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3330 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3334 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3337 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3342 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3345 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3346 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3347 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3348 backwards-compatability.
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3352 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3355 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3356 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3357 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3358 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3359 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3360 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3362 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3363 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3364 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3366 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3368 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3369 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3370 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3371 should now be raised to severity important..
3372 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3373 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3377 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3380 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3385 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3391 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3397 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3403 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3410 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3413 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3414 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3415 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3416 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3420 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3426 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3429 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3430 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3431 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3432 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3433 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3434 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3439 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3442 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3446 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3452 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3455 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3460 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3463 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3464 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3465 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3466 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3470 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3474 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3477 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3480 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3481 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3484 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3486 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3487 the TODO entry about it.
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3491 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3498 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3501 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3502 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3506 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3509 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3510 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3511 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3512 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3516 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3522 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3529 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3532 (this appears to be logal).
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3536 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3539 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3540 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3541 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3542 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3546 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3552 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3555 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3556 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3557 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3558 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3562 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3568 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3571 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3575 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3582 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3585 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3586 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3587 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3592 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3599 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3605 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3608 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3609 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3610 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3611 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3612 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3613 notice until v2 is complete.
3614 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3615 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3616 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3617 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3618 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3619 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3621 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3622 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3623 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3624 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3628 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3634 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3641 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3644 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3648 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3655 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3658 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3659 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3660 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3661 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3666 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3669 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3670 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3671 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3676 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3679 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3680 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3684 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3687 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3691 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3694 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3698 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3705 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3708 depend on the build and install targets.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3712 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3715 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3719 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3726 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3732 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3738 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3741 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3742 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3743 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3744 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3745 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3746 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3748 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3749 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3750 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3751 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3752 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3753 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3754 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3758 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3764 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3773 right place. Closes: #55065
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3777 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3784 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3787 * Copyright date updates.
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3791 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3794 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3799 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3805 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3812 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3818 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3824 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3830 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3833 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3834 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3835 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3836 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3837 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3838 bits until all files have been registered.
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3842 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * dh_installmanpages:
3845 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3846 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3847 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3848 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3849 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3850 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3851 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3852 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3853 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3854 otherwise change the result at all.
3856 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3857 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3858 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3859 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3860 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3865 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3871 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3874 act on files that don't exist.
3875 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3876 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3877 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3879 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3880 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3881 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3882 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3886 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3892 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3898 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3901 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3905 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3908 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3910 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3911 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3912 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3916 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3919 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3920 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3921 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3922 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3923 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3924 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3925 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3927 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3929 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3933 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3940 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3946 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3952 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3955 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3959 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3965 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3971 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3974 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3975 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3976 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3977 I made some changes, though:
3978 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3979 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3980 that is a clear violation of policy.
3981 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3982 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3983 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3984 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3985 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3986 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3987 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3988 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3989 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3991 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3995 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4001 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4004 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4008 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4011 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4012 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4017 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4023 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4030 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4033 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4034 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4035 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4036 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4037 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4038 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4039 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4043 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4049 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4053 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4054 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4058 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4064 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4067 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4071 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4074 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4075 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4079 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4081 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4086 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4090 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4094 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4097 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4098 for the dependancies to be generated.
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4102 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4105 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4109 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4112 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4113 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4114 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4119 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4122 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4123 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4127 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4133 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4139 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4142 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4146 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4152 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4155 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4156 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4157 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4158 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4159 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4160 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4161 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4162 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4163 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4164 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4165 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4166 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4170 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4173 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4174 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4176 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4177 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4178 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4179 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4180 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4181 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4183 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4184 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4188 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4191 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4195 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4202 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4205 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4210 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4213 for building debhelper.
4214 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4218 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4228 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4235 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4236 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4237 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4238 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4239 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4240 it's always available.
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4244 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4247 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4248 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4249 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4253 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4256 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4257 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4267 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4270 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4274 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4280 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4283 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4284 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4285 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4289 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4292 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4297 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4300 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4301 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4303 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4304 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4308 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4314 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4320 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4323 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4327 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4330 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4331 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4333 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4340 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4341 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4342 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4346 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4349 things if CDPATH is set.
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4353 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4359 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4362 seems to make sense for the transition.
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4366 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4369 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4374 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4377 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4378 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4382 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4385 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4389 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4392 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4393 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4394 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4395 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4399 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4405 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4408 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4409 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4410 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4411 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4412 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4413 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4414 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4415 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4416 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4417 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4422 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4425 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4426 * README: mention doc/v2
4427 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4428 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4432 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4434 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4435 be using this script RSN.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4439 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4442 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4443 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4444 more than 1 init script.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4448 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4451 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4455 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * Changed perl version detection.
4458 * Changed call to find.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4462 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4465 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4467 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4472 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * Really include dh_installpam.
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4478 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4481 * Wrote man page for same.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4485 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4488 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4489 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4494 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4501 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4504 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4505 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4506 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4507 x bit was being set!
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4511 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4514 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4515 well. (Closes: 38900)
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4519 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4522 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4523 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4527 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4533 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4540 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4546 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4549 help from Julian Gilbey.
4550 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4551 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4552 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4553 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4554 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4555 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4556 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4561 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4567 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4574 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4580 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4586 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4589 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4593 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4596 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4600 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4603 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4607 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4613 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4616 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4620 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4626 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4632 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4635 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4636 may be deleted. (#35845)
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4640 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * Various man page enhancements.
4643 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4648 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4650 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4651 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4652 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4656 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4659 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4660 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4661 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4663 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4664 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4669 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4675 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * Another very minor typo fix.
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4681 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * Very minor typo fix.
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4687 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4690 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4691 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4695 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4701 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4704 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4705 variables properly (#34850).
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4709 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4715 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4718 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4719 (automatically generated by build process).
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4723 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4725 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4729 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4732 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4733 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4735 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4739 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4742 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4746 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * README: minor typo fix.
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4752 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4755 leave it at that. :-)
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4759 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4765 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4771 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4774 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4775 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4776 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4780 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4783 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4787 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4790 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4794 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4797 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4798 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4799 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4800 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4804 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4807 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4808 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4809 Craig Small for spotting this.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4813 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4816 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4817 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4821 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4827 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4829 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4830 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4834 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4836 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4837 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4838 working on the last version of debhelper.
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4842 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4845 being made. (#23255)
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4849 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4855 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4858 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4862 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4865 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4866 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4867 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4868 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4872 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4874 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4875 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4876 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4877 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4878 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4880 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4881 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4883 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4888 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4894 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4900 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4903 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4904 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4905 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4906 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4907 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4908 suidregister actually supports it.
4909 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4910 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4914 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4921 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4924 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4925 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4926 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4927 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4928 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4929 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4930 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4934 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4936 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4937 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4941 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4944 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4945 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4946 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4947 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4951 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4954 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4956 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4957 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4958 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4959 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4960 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4961 effect, either. (#30118)
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4965 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4971 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4974 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4975 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4979 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4985 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4988 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4989 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4990 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4991 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4995 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4998 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4999 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5003 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5009 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5012 packages, painlessly.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5016 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5022 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5028 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5034 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * The perl conversion is complete.
5038 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5040 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5041 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5042 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5047 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5050 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5051 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5052 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5056 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5059 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5061 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5063 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5064 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5068 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5071 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5072 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5076 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5082 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5085 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5086 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5087 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5088 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5089 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5093 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5095 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5096 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5097 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5098 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5099 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5103 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5106 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5110 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5113 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5114 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5115 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5116 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5117 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5118 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5119 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5120 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5124 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5130 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5133 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5134 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5135 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5140 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5143 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5147 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5150 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5154 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5157 sections of shared libraries.
5158 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5159 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5160 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5161 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5162 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5163 things you don't want them to.
5164 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5165 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5169 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5172 shared libraries. (#26414)
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5176 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5178 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5179 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5180 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5181 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5185 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5187 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5189 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5191 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5192 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5193 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5194 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5195 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5199 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5202 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5206 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5209 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5210 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5215 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5218 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5222 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5225 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5226 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5227 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5228 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5229 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5231 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5232 remove debian/files properly.
5233 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5234 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5235 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5236 * Removed bogus menu file.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5240 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5243 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5247 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5250 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5251 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5252 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5253 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5254 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5255 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5259 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5262 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5263 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5264 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5265 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5269 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5276 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5279 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5280 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5282 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5283 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5284 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5285 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5286 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5287 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5291 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5294 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5295 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5296 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5297 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5298 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5299 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5300 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5301 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5302 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5303 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5304 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5305 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5306 passed any switches.
5307 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5311 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5314 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5315 at all for a long while.
5316 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5317 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5318 large chunks in the process.
5319 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5320 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5321 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5326 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5329 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5331 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5336 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5339 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5340 that don't always have the same files in them.
5341 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5342 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5343 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5347 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5349 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5351 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5352 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5353 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5354 updating 27 man pages.
5355 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5356 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5357 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5358 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5359 programs act on. (#25247)
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5363 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5367 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5368 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5369 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5370 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5371 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5372 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5377 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5379 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5384 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5391 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5394 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5398 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5404 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5407 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5408 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5409 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5410 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5411 package by accident.
5412 * Is version 1.0 next?
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5416 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5419 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5420 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5424 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5427 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5428 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5429 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5430 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5431 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5433 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5438 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5441 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5442 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5446 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5449 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5453 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5456 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5457 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5462 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5468 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5471 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5472 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5477 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5483 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5486 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5487 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5488 past week. Thanks, guys!
5490 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5491 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5492 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5493 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5494 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5495 would do in the same situation.
5496 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5497 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5499 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5501 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5502 permissions changed.
5503 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5504 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5505 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5506 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5507 files are treated identically.
5508 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5509 * Minor man page fixes.
5510 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5511 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5512 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5516 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5519 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5520 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5521 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5522 use -X multiple times, too.
5523 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5524 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5528 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5531 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5532 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5536 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5539 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5543 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5545 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5546 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5547 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5548 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5549 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5550 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5551 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5552 shape if you're starting a new package.
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5556 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5559 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5563 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5566 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5567 because of missing symlinks.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5571 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5577 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5580 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5581 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5582 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5583 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5584 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5586 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5587 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5591 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5593 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5594 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5595 to be changed after the fact :-)
5596 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5600 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5602 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5603 no version string after the -V.
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5607 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5609 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5610 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5615 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5618 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5622 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5625 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5626 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5627 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5628 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5629 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5630 I always welcome corrections!
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5634 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5640 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5643 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5644 * Documented this new switch.
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5648 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5650 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5651 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5652 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5653 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5654 no packages use the old behavior.
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5658 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5661 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5662 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5666 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5669 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5673 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5679 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5682 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5686 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5689 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5690 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5691 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5695 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5701 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5704 into the source package by accident.
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5708 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5711 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5712 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5713 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5714 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5715 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5716 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5721 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5725 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5726 inspired to implement some of it.
5727 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5731 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5734 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5738 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5741 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5742 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5746 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5749 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5750 have done.) (#17598)
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5754 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5760 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5766 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5769 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5773 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5776 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5777 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5781 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5784 argument processor in perl.
5785 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5786 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5787 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5788 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5792 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5795 type directories. (#16933)
5796 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5797 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5798 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5799 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5800 are supported. (#16935)
5801 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5806 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5808 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5809 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5813 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5815 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5817 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5818 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5819 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5820 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5821 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5822 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5826 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5828 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5829 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5830 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5832 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5833 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5834 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5835 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5836 a given package, or -i or -a.
5837 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5838 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5839 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5840 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5841 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5842 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5843 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5844 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5845 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5847 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5848 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5849 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5853 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5855 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5856 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5857 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5862 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5865 does not have a section.
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5869 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5872 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5873 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5874 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5878 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5880 * Fixed typo #16215.
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5884 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5887 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5888 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5889 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5890 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5891 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5896 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5899 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5900 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5901 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5906 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5912 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5918 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5921 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5922 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5923 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5924 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5925 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5926 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5930 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5932 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5936 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5939 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5943 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5945 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5946 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5947 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5948 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5952 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5954 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5955 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5959 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5961 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5965 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5968 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5972 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5975 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5979 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5985 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5987 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5988 postinst, postrm, etc.
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5992 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5998 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6001 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6002 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6003 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6004 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6005 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6009 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6012 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6013 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6017 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6019 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6020 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6024 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6027 installing package files into.
6028 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6033 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6037 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6041 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6047 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6049 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6050 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6054 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6057 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6058 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6059 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6060 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6064 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6066 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6067 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6068 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6069 multiple binary packages.
6070 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6071 should rebuild them with this version.
6072 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6076 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6078 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6079 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6083 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6085 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6086 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6090 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6092 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6093 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6094 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6095 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6096 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6097 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6098 debian/README.debian.
6099 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6100 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6101 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6102 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6103 in a few situations.)
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6107 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6113 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6119 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6121 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6122 * Fixed several man pages.
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6126 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6129 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6130 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6134 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6137 is ready for general use.
6138 * Added man pages for all commands.
6139 * Multiple binary package support.
6140 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6141 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6142 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6144 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6145 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6146 auto-installed as parameters.
6147 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6149 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6152 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6153 the package build directory it is to act on.
6154 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6155 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6156 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6160 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6162 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6163 ready to replace debstd.
6165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400