1 debhelper (7.0.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
4 run and there are no packages of that type.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:10:56 -0400
8 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
10 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
11 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
12 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
16 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
19 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
20 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
22 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
23 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
24 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
25 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
26 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
27 planned but not yet implemented.)
28 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
29 if the Makefile has such a target.
30 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
31 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
32 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
33 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
34 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
35 but not yet implemented.)
36 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
37 recommended default, especially when using dh.
38 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
39 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
40 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
42 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
44 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
45 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
47 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
48 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
49 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
54 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
57 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
58 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
62 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
64 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
65 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
66 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
70 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
76 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
82 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
85 just those installed by the program.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
89 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
92 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
93 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
97 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
100 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
101 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
102 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
103 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
107 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
109 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
110 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
111 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
115 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
118 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
119 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
123 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
126 with policy. Closes: #461392
127 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
128 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
129 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
130 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
131 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
135 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
138 Closes: #460340, #460351
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
142 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
145 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
146 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
147 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
148 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
152 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
155 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
156 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
157 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
158 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
159 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
160 package build directory won't work.
161 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
162 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
163 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
164 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
165 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
166 mode. Closes: #459426
167 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
172 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
175 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
179 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
183 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
184 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
185 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
186 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
187 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
188 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
192 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
195 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
196 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
197 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
198 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
202 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
205 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
206 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
207 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
208 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
209 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
213 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
215 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
216 debian/package.triggers files.
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
220 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
223 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
227 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
230 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
231 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
232 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
233 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
238 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
241 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
245 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
248 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
249 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
251 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
256 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
260 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
261 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
262 * Typo. Closes: #441272
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
266 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
273 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
280 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
283 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
285 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
286 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
287 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
289 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
290 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
291 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
295 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
298 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
299 * Update urls to web page.
300 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
302 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
303 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
307 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
310 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
311 - typo in alternatives call
312 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
314 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
315 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
319 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
322 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
327 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
333 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
339 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
342 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
344 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
345 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
346 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
347 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
348 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
349 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
350 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
351 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
352 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
353 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
354 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
358 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
361 package install. Closes: #415717
362 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
363 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
364 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
365 script and then remove the python files.
366 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
367 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
368 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
369 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
370 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
371 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
372 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
373 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
374 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
375 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
376 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
377 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
378 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
382 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Correct typo in french translation
388 * Typo. Closes: #400571
389 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
391 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
393 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
394 Closes: #406921, #381940
395 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
397 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
398 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
399 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
400 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
401 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
402 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
403 specified). Closes: #381851
404 * Misc minor changes.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
408 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
415 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
416 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
420 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
423 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
426 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
427 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
430 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
431 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
433 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
434 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
435 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
436 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
440 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
443 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
446 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
450 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
456 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
459 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
462 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
463 a difficult situation.
464 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
465 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
466 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
467 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
468 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
469 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
470 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
471 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
472 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
473 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
477 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Non-maintainer upload.
480 * Update of dh_python
481 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
482 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
484 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
485 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
486 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
487 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
488 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
490 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
492 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Non-maintainer upload.
495 * Update of dh_python
496 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
497 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
498 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
499 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
500 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
501 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
502 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
503 specific python version. Closes: #373853
504 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
505 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
507 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
508 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
509 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
510 the not too-distant future).
511 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
512 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
513 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
514 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
515 thus made the build fail.
517 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
519 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Non-maintainer upload.
522 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
524 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
526 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
529 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
530 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
531 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
532 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
533 package. Closes: #301424
534 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
535 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
536 fonts). Closes: #372686
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
540 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
546 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
547 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
548 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
549 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
550 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
551 above, but already depends on that.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
555 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
558 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
559 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
560 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
561 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
562 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
566 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
572 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
578 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
579 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
583 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
586 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
590 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
593 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
594 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
595 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
596 new version (0.24.1).
597 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
598 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
601 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
602 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
603 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
604 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
605 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
606 new directory on their own.
607 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
608 * Fix broken directory removal code.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
612 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
615 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
616 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
617 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
618 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
622 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
625 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
626 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
627 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
628 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
629 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
633 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
639 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Typo. Closes: #358904
643 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
644 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
648 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
649 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
653 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
655 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
656 || exit 0 instead of the intended
658 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
659 ignored. Closes: #337664
661 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
666 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
672 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
675 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
677 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
678 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
679 the dh_installdebconf manpage
680 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
681 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
682 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
683 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
687 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
690 version. Closes: #350607
691 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
692 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
693 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
694 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
698 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
701 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
702 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
703 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
707 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
714 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Minor bug fix from last release.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
720 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
723 language guessing. Closes: #193221
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
727 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
730 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
731 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
732 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
733 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
734 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
735 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
739 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
742 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
743 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
748 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
751 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
755 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
758 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
762 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
765 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
766 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
767 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
768 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
769 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
770 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
774 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
777 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
778 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
779 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
780 link. Closes: #346405
781 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
784 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
785 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
786 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
787 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
788 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
789 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
793 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
800 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
802 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
806 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
809 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
813 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
816 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
821 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
825 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
826 installed. Closes: #342033
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
830 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
833 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
834 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
835 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
840 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
846 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
852 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
856 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
857 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
858 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
862 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
865 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
870 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
877 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
883 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
885 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
886 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
887 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
888 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
889 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
890 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
891 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
892 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
894 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
898 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
901 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
902 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
906 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
909 in standard man dirs.
910 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
914 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
920 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
923 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
928 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
935 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
942 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
945 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
946 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
950 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
952 * NMU with maintainer approval.
953 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
954 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
955 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
957 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
959 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
961 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
965 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
971 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
974 mode. Closes: #324161
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
978 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
980 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
981 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
982 behavior change. Closes: #249815
983 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
984 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
989 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
992 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
993 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
994 is necesary for sanity.
995 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
996 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1001 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1003 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1004 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1008 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1011 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1015 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1021 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1024 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1025 released, so use at your own risk.
1026 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1027 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1029 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1030 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1031 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1032 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1033 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1034 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1035 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1036 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1037 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1038 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1039 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1040 including twice per config file line now..
1041 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1042 and simplfy the rules file.
1043 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1044 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1045 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1047 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1048 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1052 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1055 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1059 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1062 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1066 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1069 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1073 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1076 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1077 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1078 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1079 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1080 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1081 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1085 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1088 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1089 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1090 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1095 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1098 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1099 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1104 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1107 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1108 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1109 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1114 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1117 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1118 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1119 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1123 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1129 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1136 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1139 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1140 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1141 unknown. Closes: #282924
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1145 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1152 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Spanish man page updates.
1155 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1160 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1166 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1169 * dh_desktop: reindent
1170 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1171 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1175 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1181 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1183 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1187 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1189 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1193 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1196 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1197 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1201 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1207 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1213 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1220 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1223 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1227 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1230 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1231 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1232 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1233 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1234 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1235 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1237 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1238 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1239 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1240 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1241 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1242 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1243 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1244 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1245 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1246 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1247 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1248 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1249 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1250 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1251 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1252 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1256 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1263 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1266 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1270 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1273 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1277 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1280 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1284 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1287 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1291 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1297 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1303 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1309 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1312 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1313 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1314 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1318 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1321 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1325 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1328 but occasionally right and necessary.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1332 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1335 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1336 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1337 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1338 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1339 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1343 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1346 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1348 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1349 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1350 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1351 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1352 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1353 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1354 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1355 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1356 postinst scripts for udebs.
1357 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1361 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1364 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1366 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1367 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1371 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1377 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1384 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1391 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1394 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1398 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1401 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1405 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1408 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1411 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1412 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1416 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1422 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1425 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1429 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1432 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1433 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1434 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1436 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1438 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1439 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1440 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1444 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1447 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1452 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1455 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1456 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1457 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1462 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1468 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1474 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1477 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1478 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1479 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1480 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1481 associated -dbg packages.
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1485 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1488 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1492 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1495 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1499 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1502 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1506 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1509 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1514 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1517 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1521 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1524 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1529 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1532 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1536 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1540 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1541 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1542 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1543 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1544 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1545 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1546 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1547 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1548 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1549 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1553 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1556 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1561 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1564 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1565 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1569 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1572 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1573 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1578 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1581 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1585 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1588 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1592 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1595 out section number. Closes: #204731
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1599 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1606 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1612 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1618 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1621 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1622 removal. Closes: #204286
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1626 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1629 renaming. Closes: #203548
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1633 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1636 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1637 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1641 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1647 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1653 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1659 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1662 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1663 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1664 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1668 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1671 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1672 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1676 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1682 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1689 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1692 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1697 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1700 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1704 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1707 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1709 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1710 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1714 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1717 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1722 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1725 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1729 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1735 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1737 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1741 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1744 it break hard links (see #188663).
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1748 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1751 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1755 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1761 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1765 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1766 debconf-mergetemplates
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1770 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1773 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1777 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1780 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1784 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1787 * Update debhelper(1).
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1791 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1794 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1795 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1796 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1797 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1798 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1802 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1805 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1806 the shell. Closes: #178524
1807 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1811 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1814 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1818 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1821 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1825 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1828 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1829 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1830 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1831 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1836 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1839 files from installation.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1843 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1846 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1847 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1851 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1854 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1858 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1861 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1865 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1871 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1877 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1881 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1882 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1884 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1888 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1891 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1892 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1893 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1894 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1898 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1901 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1905 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1908 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1909 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1913 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1917 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1928 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1932 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1933 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1934 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1939 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1942 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1943 practice. Closes: #163303
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1953 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1960 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1963 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1965 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1966 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1967 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1968 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1969 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1973 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1976 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1981 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1994 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1997 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2002 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2008 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2027 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2030 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2031 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2032 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2033 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2038 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2044 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2051 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2054 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2055 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2059 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2062 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2063 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2064 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2065 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2066 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2070 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2073 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2075 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2080 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2083 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2090 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2091 right thing. Closes: #150644
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2095 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Stupid, evil typo.
2098 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2102 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2109 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2112 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2113 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2118 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2124 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2127 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2131 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2134 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2135 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2140 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2143 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2147 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2156 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2157 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2161 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Removing perl warning message.
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2173 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2176 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2177 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2178 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2179 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2180 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2181 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2182 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2183 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2187 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2193 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2200 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2203 debconf-mergetemplate.
2204 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2205 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2209 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2212 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2213 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2214 dh_install, which ...
2215 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2216 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2217 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2218 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2219 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2220 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2221 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2222 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2223 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2224 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2225 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2226 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2227 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2228 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2229 other minor changes.
2230 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2231 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2232 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2233 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2234 course there's -X ..)
2235 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2236 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2237 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2239 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2240 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2241 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2242 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2243 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2248 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2254 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2257 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2261 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2267 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2273 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2279 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2285 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2288 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2289 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2290 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2291 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2293 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2294 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2298 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2304 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2307 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2311 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2314 upset. Closes: #131322
2316 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2318 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2321 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2322 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2323 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2324 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2325 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2326 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2327 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2328 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2329 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2330 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2331 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2332 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2333 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2334 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2335 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2337 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2341 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2344 - Better indenting of generated code.
2345 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2349 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2353 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2354 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2355 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2356 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2357 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2358 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2359 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2363 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2366 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2370 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2373 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2374 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2375 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2376 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2377 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2378 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2379 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2380 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2381 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2382 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2383 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2384 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2385 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2386 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2387 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2392 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2398 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2401 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2402 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2406 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2409 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2410 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2414 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2420 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2423 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2424 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2425 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2426 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2427 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2432 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2438 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2441 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2445 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2448 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2453 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2459 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2462 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2466 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2472 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2476 Also some indentation fixes.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2480 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2483 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2484 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2485 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2486 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2487 Closes: #106514, #85520
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2491 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2497 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2503 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2509 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2515 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2521 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2524 change it in debhelper v4..
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2528 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2534 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2537 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2541 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2544 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2548 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2554 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2557 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2558 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2559 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2560 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2561 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2562 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2563 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2564 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2565 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2566 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2567 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2568 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2572 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2575 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2579 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2586 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2589 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2590 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2591 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2592 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2593 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2594 program those options go to. So, for example,
2595 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2596 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2597 something complex. Closes: #89311
2598 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2602 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2605 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2606 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2607 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2611 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2614 through loop. Closes: #98598
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2618 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Missing semi-colon.
2621 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2622 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2626 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2629 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2630 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2631 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2635 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2638 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2639 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2643 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2646 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2650 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2653 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2654 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2658 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2661 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2662 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2663 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2667 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2670 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2671 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2672 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2676 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2679 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2683 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2689 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2695 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2701 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2707 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2710 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2714 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2717 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2718 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2719 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2720 followed. Closes: #85483
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2724 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2726 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2727 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2728 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2732 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2735 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2736 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2737 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2738 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2739 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2740 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2741 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2742 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2743 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2744 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2745 Closes: #88464, #77743
2746 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2747 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2748 us to deal with that gracefully.
2749 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2751 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2752 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2753 a while, Closes: #51225
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2757 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2763 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2766 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2770 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2774 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2779 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2782 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2783 don't make packlist files.
2784 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2785 debhelper coding standards.
2786 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2787 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2791 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2794 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2798 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2801 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2802 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2803 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2804 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2805 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2806 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2807 but is mildly deprecated.
2808 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2809 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2810 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2811 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2812 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2813 switching to statoverrides..
2814 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2815 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2816 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2817 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2818 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2819 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2821 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2822 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2823 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2824 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2825 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2826 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2827 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2828 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2829 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2831 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2832 variable names, pod man pages).
2833 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2834 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2835 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2836 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2837 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2838 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2839 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2843 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2849 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2856 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2859 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2863 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2865 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2866 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2867 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2871 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2873 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2874 they were previously ignored.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2878 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2880 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2881 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2885 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2887 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2888 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2889 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2893 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2895 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2899 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2901 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2902 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2906 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2908 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2909 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2910 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2911 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2912 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2913 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2914 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2915 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2916 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2917 it is an obsolete program.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2921 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2923 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2927 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2931 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2933 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2937 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2939 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2941 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2943 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2947 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2953 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * typo: Closes, #78567
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2959 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2965 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2971 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2974 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2975 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2976 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2977 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2978 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2982 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2985 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2990 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2993 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2994 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2995 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2996 backwards-compatability.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3000 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3003 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3004 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3005 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3006 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3007 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3008 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3010 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3011 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3012 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3014 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3016 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3017 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3018 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3019 should now be raised to severity important..
3020 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3021 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3025 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3028 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3033 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3039 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3045 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3051 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3058 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3061 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3062 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3063 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3064 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3068 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3074 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3077 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3078 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3079 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3080 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3081 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3082 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3087 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3090 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3094 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3100 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3103 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3108 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3111 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3112 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3113 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3114 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3118 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3122 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3125 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3128 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3129 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3132 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3134 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3135 the TODO entry about it.
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3139 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3146 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3149 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3150 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3154 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3157 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3158 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3159 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3160 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3164 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3170 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3177 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3180 (this appears to be logal).
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3184 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3187 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3188 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3189 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3190 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3194 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3200 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3203 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3204 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3205 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3206 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3210 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3216 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3219 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3223 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3230 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3233 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3234 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3235 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3240 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3247 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3253 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3256 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3257 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3258 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3259 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3260 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3261 notice until v2 is complete.
3262 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3263 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3264 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3265 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3266 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3267 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3269 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3270 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3271 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3272 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3276 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3282 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3289 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3292 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3296 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3303 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3306 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3307 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3308 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3309 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3314 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3317 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3318 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3319 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3324 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3327 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3328 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3332 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3335 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3339 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3342 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3346 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3353 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3356 depend on the build and install targets.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3360 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3363 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3367 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3374 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3380 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3386 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3389 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3390 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3391 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3392 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3393 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3394 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3396 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3397 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3398 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3399 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3400 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3401 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3402 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3406 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3412 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3418 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3421 right place. Closes: #55065
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3425 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3432 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3435 * Copyright date updates.
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3439 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3442 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3447 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3453 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3460 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3466 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3472 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3478 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3481 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3482 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3483 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3484 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3485 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3486 bits until all files have been registered.
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3490 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * dh_installmanpages:
3493 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3494 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3495 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3496 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3497 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3498 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3499 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3500 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3501 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3502 otherwise change the result at all.
3504 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3505 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3506 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3507 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3508 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3513 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3519 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3522 act on files that don't exist.
3523 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3524 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3525 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3527 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3528 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3529 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3530 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3534 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3540 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3546 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3549 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3553 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3556 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3558 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3559 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3560 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3564 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3567 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3568 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3569 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3570 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3571 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3572 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3573 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3575 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3577 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3581 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3588 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3594 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3600 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3603 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3607 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3613 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3619 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3622 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3623 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3624 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3625 I made some changes, though:
3626 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3627 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3628 that is a clear violation of policy.
3629 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3630 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3631 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3632 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3633 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3634 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3635 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3636 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3637 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3639 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3643 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3649 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3652 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3656 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3659 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3660 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3665 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3671 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3678 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3681 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3682 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3683 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3684 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3685 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3686 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3687 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3691 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3697 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3701 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3702 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3706 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3712 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3715 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3719 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3722 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3723 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3727 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3729 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3734 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3738 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3742 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3745 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3746 for the dependancies to be generated.
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3750 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3753 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3757 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3760 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3761 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3762 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3767 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3770 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3771 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3775 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3781 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3787 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3790 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3794 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3800 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3803 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3804 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3805 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3806 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3807 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3808 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3809 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3810 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3811 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3812 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3813 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3814 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3818 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3821 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3822 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3824 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3825 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3826 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3827 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3828 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3829 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3831 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3832 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3836 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3839 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3843 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3850 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3853 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3858 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3861 for building debhelper.
3862 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3866 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3873 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3876 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3880 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3883 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3884 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3885 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3886 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3887 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3888 it's always available.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3892 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3895 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3896 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3897 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3901 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3904 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3905 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3909 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3915 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3918 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3922 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3928 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3931 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3932 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3933 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3937 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3940 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3945 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3948 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3949 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3951 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3952 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3956 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3962 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3968 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3971 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3975 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3978 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3979 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3981 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3985 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3988 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3989 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3990 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3994 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3997 things if CDPATH is set.
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4001 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4007 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4010 seems to make sense for the transition.
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4014 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4017 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4022 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4025 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4026 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4030 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4033 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4037 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4040 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4041 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4042 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4043 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4047 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4053 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4056 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4057 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4058 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4059 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4060 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4061 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4062 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4063 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4064 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4065 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4070 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4073 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4074 * README: mention doc/v2
4075 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4076 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4080 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4082 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4083 be using this script RSN.
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4087 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4090 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4091 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4092 more than 1 init script.
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4096 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4099 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4103 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * Changed perl version detection.
4106 * Changed call to find.
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4110 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4113 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4115 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4120 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * Really include dh_installpam.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4126 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4129 * Wrote man page for same.
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4133 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4136 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4137 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4142 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4149 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4152 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4153 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4154 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4155 x bit was being set!
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4159 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4162 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4163 well. (Closes: 38900)
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4167 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4170 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4171 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4175 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4177 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4181 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4188 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4194 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4197 help from Julian Gilbey.
4198 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4199 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4200 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4201 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4202 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4203 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4204 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4209 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4215 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4222 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4228 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4234 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4237 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4241 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4244 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4248 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4251 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4255 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4261 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4264 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4268 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4274 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4280 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4283 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4284 may be deleted. (#35845)
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4288 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * Various man page enhancements.
4291 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4296 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4299 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4300 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4304 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4307 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4308 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4309 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4311 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4312 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4317 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4323 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Another very minor typo fix.
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4329 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * Very minor typo fix.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4335 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4338 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4339 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4343 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4349 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4352 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4353 variables properly (#34850).
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4357 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4363 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4366 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4367 (automatically generated by build process).
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4371 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4373 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4377 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4380 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4381 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4383 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4387 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4390 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4394 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * README: minor typo fix.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4400 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4403 leave it at that. :-)
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4407 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4413 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4419 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4422 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4423 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4424 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4428 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4431 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4435 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4438 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4442 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4445 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4446 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4447 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4448 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4452 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4455 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4456 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4457 Craig Small for spotting this.
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4461 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4464 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4465 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4469 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4475 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4478 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4482 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4484 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4485 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4486 working on the last version of debhelper.
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4490 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4493 being made. (#23255)
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4497 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4503 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4506 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4510 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4513 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4514 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4515 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4516 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4520 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4523 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4524 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4525 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4526 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4528 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4529 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4531 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4536 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4542 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4548 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4551 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4552 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4553 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4554 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4555 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4556 suidregister actually supports it.
4557 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4558 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4562 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4569 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4572 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4573 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4574 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4575 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4576 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4577 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4578 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4582 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4584 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4585 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4589 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4592 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4593 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4594 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4595 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4599 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4602 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4604 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4605 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4606 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4607 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4608 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4609 effect, either. (#30118)
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4613 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4619 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4622 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4623 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4627 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4633 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4636 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4637 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4638 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4639 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4643 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4646 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4647 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4651 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4657 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4660 packages, painlessly.
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4664 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4670 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4676 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4682 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * The perl conversion is complete.
4686 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4688 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4689 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4690 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4695 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4698 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4699 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4700 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4704 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4707 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4709 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4711 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4712 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4716 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4719 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4720 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4724 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4730 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4733 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4734 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4735 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4736 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4737 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4741 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4744 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4745 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4746 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4747 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4751 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4754 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4758 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4761 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4762 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4763 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4764 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4765 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4766 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4767 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4768 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4772 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4778 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4781 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4782 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4783 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4788 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4791 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4795 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4798 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4802 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4805 sections of shared libraries.
4806 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4807 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4808 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4809 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4810 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4811 things you don't want them to.
4812 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4813 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4817 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4820 shared libraries. (#26414)
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4824 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4826 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4827 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4828 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4829 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4833 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4835 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4837 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4839 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4840 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4841 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4842 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4843 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4847 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4850 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4854 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4857 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4858 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4863 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4865 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4866 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4870 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4873 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4874 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4875 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4876 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4877 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4879 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4880 remove debian/files properly.
4881 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4882 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4883 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4884 * Removed bogus menu file.
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4888 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4891 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4895 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4898 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4899 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4900 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4901 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4902 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4903 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4907 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4910 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4911 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4912 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4913 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4917 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4924 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4927 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4928 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4930 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4931 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4932 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4933 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4934 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4935 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4939 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4942 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4943 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4944 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4945 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4946 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4947 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4948 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4949 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4950 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4951 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4952 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4953 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4954 passed any switches.
4955 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4959 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4961 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4962 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4963 at all for a long while.
4964 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4965 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4966 large chunks in the process.
4967 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4968 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4969 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4974 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4977 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4979 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4984 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4987 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4988 that don't always have the same files in them.
4989 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4990 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4991 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4995 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4999 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5000 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5001 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5002 updating 27 man pages.
5003 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5004 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5005 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5006 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5007 programs act on. (#25247)
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5011 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5015 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5016 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5017 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5018 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5019 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5020 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5025 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5032 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5039 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5042 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5046 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5052 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5054 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5055 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5056 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5057 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5058 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5059 package by accident.
5060 * Is version 1.0 next?
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5064 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5067 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5068 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5072 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5075 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5076 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5077 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5078 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5079 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5081 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5086 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5089 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5090 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5094 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5097 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5101 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5104 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5105 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5110 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5116 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5119 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5120 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5125 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5127 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5131 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5134 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5135 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5136 past week. Thanks, guys!
5138 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5139 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5140 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5141 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5142 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5143 would do in the same situation.
5144 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5145 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5147 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5149 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5150 permissions changed.
5151 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5152 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5153 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5154 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5155 files are treated identically.
5156 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5157 * Minor man page fixes.
5158 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5159 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5160 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5164 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5167 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5168 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5169 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5170 use -X multiple times, too.
5171 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5172 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5176 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5179 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5180 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5184 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5187 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5191 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5194 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5195 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5196 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5197 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5198 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5199 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5200 shape if you're starting a new package.
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5204 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5207 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5211 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5214 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5215 because of missing symlinks.
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5219 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5225 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5228 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5229 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5230 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5231 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5232 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5234 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5235 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5239 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5241 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5242 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5243 to be changed after the fact :-)
5244 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5248 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5250 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5251 no version string after the -V.
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5255 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5257 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5258 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5263 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5266 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5270 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5273 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5274 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5275 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5276 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5277 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5278 I always welcome corrections!
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5282 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5288 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5291 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5292 * Documented this new switch.
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5296 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5299 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5300 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5301 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5302 no packages use the old behavior.
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5306 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5309 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5310 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5314 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5317 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5321 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5327 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5330 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5334 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5337 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5338 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5339 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5343 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5349 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5352 into the source package by accident.
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5356 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5359 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5360 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5361 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5362 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5363 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5364 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5369 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5373 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5374 inspired to implement some of it.
5375 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5379 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5382 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5386 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5389 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5390 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5394 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5397 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5398 have done.) (#17598)
5400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5402 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5404 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5408 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5414 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5417 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5421 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5424 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5425 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5429 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5432 argument processor in perl.
5433 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5434 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5435 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5436 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5440 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5442 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5443 type directories. (#16933)
5444 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5445 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5446 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5447 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5448 are supported. (#16935)
5449 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5454 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5457 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5461 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5465 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5466 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5467 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5468 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5469 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5470 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5474 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5477 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5478 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5480 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5481 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5482 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5483 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5484 a given package, or -i or -a.
5485 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5486 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5487 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5488 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5489 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5490 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5491 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5492 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5493 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5495 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5496 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5497 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5501 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5504 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5505 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5510 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5513 does not have a section.
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5517 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5520 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5521 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5522 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5526 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * Fixed typo #16215.
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5532 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5535 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5536 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5537 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5538 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5539 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5544 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5547 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5548 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5549 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5554 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5560 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5566 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5569 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5570 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5571 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5572 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5573 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5574 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5578 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5584 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5587 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5591 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5594 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5595 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5596 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5600 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5603 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5607 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5613 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5616 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5620 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5623 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5627 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5633 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5636 postinst, postrm, etc.
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5640 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5646 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5649 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5650 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5651 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5652 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5653 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5657 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5660 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5661 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5665 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5668 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5672 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5674 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5675 installing package files into.
5676 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5681 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5685 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5689 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5695 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5698 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5702 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5704 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5705 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5706 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5707 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5708 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5712 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5714 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5715 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5716 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5717 multiple binary packages.
5718 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5719 should rebuild them with this version.
5720 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5724 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5727 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5731 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5734 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5738 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5741 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5742 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5743 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5744 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5745 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5746 debian/README.debian.
5747 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5748 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5749 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5750 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5751 in a few situations.)
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5755 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5761 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5767 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5770 * Fixed several man pages.
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5774 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5777 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5778 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5782 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5784 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5785 is ready for general use.
5786 * Added man pages for all commands.
5787 * Multiple binary package support.
5788 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5789 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5790 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5792 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5793 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5794 auto-installed as parameters.
5795 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5797 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5800 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5801 the package build directory it is to act on.
5802 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5803 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5804 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5808 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5810 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5811 ready to replace debstd.
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400