1 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
4 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
5 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
9 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
12 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
13 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
15 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
16 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
17 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
18 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
19 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
20 planned but not yet implemented.)
21 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
22 if the Makefile has such a target.
23 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
24 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
25 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
26 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
27 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
28 but not yet implemented.)
29 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
30 recommended default, especially when using dh.
31 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
32 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
33 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
35 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
37 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
38 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
40 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
41 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
42 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
47 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
50 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
51 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
55 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
57 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
58 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
59 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
63 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
69 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
75 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
78 just those installed by the program.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
82 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
85 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
86 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
90 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
93 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
94 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
95 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
96 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
100 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
103 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
104 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
108 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
111 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
112 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
116 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
119 with policy. Closes: #461392
120 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
121 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
122 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
123 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
124 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
128 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
131 Closes: #460340, #460351
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
135 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
138 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
139 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
140 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
141 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
145 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
148 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
149 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
150 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
151 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
152 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
153 package build directory won't work.
154 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
155 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
156 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
157 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
158 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
159 mode. Closes: #459426
160 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
165 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
168 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
172 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
176 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
177 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
178 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
179 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
180 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
181 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
185 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
188 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
189 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
190 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
191 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
195 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
198 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
199 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
200 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
201 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
202 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
206 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
209 debian/package.triggers files.
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
213 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
215 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
216 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
220 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
223 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
224 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
225 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
226 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
231 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
234 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
238 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
241 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
242 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
244 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
249 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
253 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
254 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
255 * Typo. Closes: #441272
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
259 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
266 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
273 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
276 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
278 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
279 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
280 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
282 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
283 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
284 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
288 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
291 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
292 * Update urls to web page.
293 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
295 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
296 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
300 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
303 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
304 - typo in alternatives call
305 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
307 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
308 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
312 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
315 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
320 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
326 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
332 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
334 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
335 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
337 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
338 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
339 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
340 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
341 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
342 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
343 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
344 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
345 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
346 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
347 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
351 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
354 package install. Closes: #415717
355 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
356 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
357 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
358 script and then remove the python files.
359 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
360 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
361 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
362 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
363 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
364 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
365 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
366 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
367 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
368 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
369 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
370 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
371 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
375 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Correct typo in french translation
381 * Typo. Closes: #400571
382 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
384 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
386 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
387 Closes: #406921, #381940
388 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
390 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
391 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
392 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
393 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
394 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
395 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
396 specified). Closes: #381851
397 * Misc minor changes.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
401 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
408 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
409 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
413 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
419 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
420 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
423 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
424 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
426 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
427 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
428 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
429 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
433 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
436 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
439 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
443 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
449 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
455 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
456 a difficult situation.
457 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
458 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
459 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
460 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
461 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
462 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
463 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
464 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
465 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
466 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
470 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
472 * Non-maintainer upload.
473 * Update of dh_python
474 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
475 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
477 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
478 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
479 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
480 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
481 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
483 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
485 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Non-maintainer upload.
488 * Update of dh_python
489 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
490 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
491 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
492 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
493 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
494 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
495 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
496 specific python version. Closes: #373853
497 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
498 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
500 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
501 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
502 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
503 the not too-distant future).
504 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
505 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
506 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
507 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
508 thus made the build fail.
510 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
512 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Non-maintainer upload.
515 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
517 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
519 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
522 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
523 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
524 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
525 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
526 package. Closes: #301424
527 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
528 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
529 fonts). Closes: #372686
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
533 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
539 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
540 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
541 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
542 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
543 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
544 above, but already depends on that.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
548 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
551 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
552 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
553 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
554 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
555 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
559 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
565 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
571 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
572 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
576 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
579 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
583 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
587 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
588 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
589 new version (0.24.1).
590 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
591 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
594 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
595 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
596 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
597 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
598 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
599 new directory on their own.
600 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
601 * Fix broken directory removal code.
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
605 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
608 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
609 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
610 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
611 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
615 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
618 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
619 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
620 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
621 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
622 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
626 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
632 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Typo. Closes: #358904
636 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
637 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
641 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
642 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
646 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
648 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
649 || exit 0 instead of the intended
651 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
652 ignored. Closes: #337664
654 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
659 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
661 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
665 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
668 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
670 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
671 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
672 the dh_installdebconf manpage
673 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
674 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
675 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
676 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
680 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
683 version. Closes: #350607
684 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
685 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
686 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
687 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
691 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
694 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
695 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
696 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
700 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
707 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Minor bug fix from last release.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
713 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
716 language guessing. Closes: #193221
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
720 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
723 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
724 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
725 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
726 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
727 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
728 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
732 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
735 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
736 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
741 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
744 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
748 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
751 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
755 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
758 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
759 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
760 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
761 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
762 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
763 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
767 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
770 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
771 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
772 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
773 link. Closes: #346405
774 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
777 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
778 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
779 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
780 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
781 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
782 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
786 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
793 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
795 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
799 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
802 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
806 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
809 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
814 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
816 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
818 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
819 installed. Closes: #342033
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
823 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
826 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
827 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
828 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
833 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
839 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
845 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
849 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
850 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
851 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
855 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
857 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
858 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
863 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
870 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
872 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
876 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
878 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
879 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
880 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
881 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
882 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
883 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
884 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
885 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
887 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
891 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
894 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
895 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
899 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
902 in standard man dirs.
903 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
907 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
913 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
916 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
921 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
928 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
935 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
938 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
939 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
943 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
945 * NMU with maintainer approval.
946 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
947 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
948 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
950 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
952 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
954 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
958 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
964 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
967 mode. Closes: #324161
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
971 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
974 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
975 behavior change. Closes: #249815
976 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
977 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
982 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
985 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
986 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
987 is necesary for sanity.
988 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
989 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
994 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
996 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
997 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1001 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1004 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1008 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1014 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1017 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1018 released, so use at your own risk.
1019 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1020 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1022 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1023 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1024 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1025 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1026 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1027 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1028 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1029 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1030 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1031 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1032 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1033 including twice per config file line now..
1034 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1035 and simplfy the rules file.
1036 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1037 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1038 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1040 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1041 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1045 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1048 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1052 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1055 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1059 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1062 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1066 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1069 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1070 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1071 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1072 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1073 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1074 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1078 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1081 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1082 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1083 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1088 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1091 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1092 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1097 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1100 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1101 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1102 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1107 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1110 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1111 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1112 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1116 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1122 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1129 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1132 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1133 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1134 unknown. Closes: #282924
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1138 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1145 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Spanish man page updates.
1148 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1153 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1159 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1162 * dh_desktop: reindent
1163 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1164 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1168 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1174 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1176 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1180 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1182 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1186 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1189 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1190 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1194 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1200 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1206 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1213 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1216 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1220 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1223 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1224 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1225 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1226 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1227 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1228 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1230 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1231 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1232 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1233 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1234 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1235 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1236 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1237 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1238 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1239 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1240 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1241 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1242 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1243 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1244 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1245 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1249 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1256 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1259 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1263 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1266 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1270 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1273 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1277 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1280 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1284 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1290 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1296 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1302 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1305 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1306 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1307 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1311 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1314 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1318 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1321 but occasionally right and necessary.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1325 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1328 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1329 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1330 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1331 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1332 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1336 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1339 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1341 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1342 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1343 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1344 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1345 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1346 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1347 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1348 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1349 postinst scripts for udebs.
1350 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1354 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1357 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1359 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1360 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1364 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1370 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1377 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1384 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1387 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1391 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1394 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1398 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1401 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1404 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1405 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1409 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1415 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1418 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1422 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1425 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1426 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1427 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1429 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1431 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1432 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1433 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1437 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1440 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1445 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1448 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1449 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1450 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1455 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1461 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1467 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1470 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1471 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1472 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1473 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1474 associated -dbg packages.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1478 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1481 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1485 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1488 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1492 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1495 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1499 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1502 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1507 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1510 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1514 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1517 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1522 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1525 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1529 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1533 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1534 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1535 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1536 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1537 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1538 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1539 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1540 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1541 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1542 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1546 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1549 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1554 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1557 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1558 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1562 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1565 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1566 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1571 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1574 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1578 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1581 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1585 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1588 out section number. Closes: #204731
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1592 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1599 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1605 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1611 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1614 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1615 removal. Closes: #204286
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1619 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1622 renaming. Closes: #203548
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1626 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1629 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1630 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1634 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1640 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1646 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1652 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1655 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1656 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1657 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1661 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1664 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1665 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1669 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1675 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1682 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1685 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1690 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1693 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1697 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1700 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1702 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1703 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1707 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1710 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1715 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1718 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1722 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1728 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1730 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1734 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1737 it break hard links (see #188663).
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1741 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1744 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1748 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1754 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1758 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1759 debconf-mergetemplates
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1763 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1766 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1770 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1773 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1777 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1780 * Update debhelper(1).
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1784 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1787 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1788 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1789 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1790 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1791 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1795 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1798 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1799 the shell. Closes: #178524
1800 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1804 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1807 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1811 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1814 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1818 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1821 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1822 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1823 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1824 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1829 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1832 files from installation.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1836 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1839 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1840 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1844 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1847 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1851 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1854 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1858 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1864 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1870 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1874 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1875 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1877 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1881 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1884 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1885 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1886 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1887 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1891 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1894 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1898 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1901 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1902 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1906 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1910 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1915 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1921 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1925 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1926 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1927 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1932 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1935 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1936 practice. Closes: #163303
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1940 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1946 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1953 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1956 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1958 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1959 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1960 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1961 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1962 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1966 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1969 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1974 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1980 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1990 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1995 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2001 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2007 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2013 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2023 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2024 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2025 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2026 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2031 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2037 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2044 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2047 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2048 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2052 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2055 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2056 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2057 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2058 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2059 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2063 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2066 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2068 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2073 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2076 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2080 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2083 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2084 right thing. Closes: #150644
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2088 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Stupid, evil typo.
2091 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2095 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2102 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2105 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2106 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2111 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2117 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2120 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2124 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2127 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2128 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2133 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2136 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2140 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2146 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2149 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2150 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2154 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2160 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Removing perl warning message.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2166 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2169 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2170 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2171 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2172 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2173 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2174 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2175 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2176 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2180 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2186 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2193 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2196 debconf-mergetemplate.
2197 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2198 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2202 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2205 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2206 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2207 dh_install, which ...
2208 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2209 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2210 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2211 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2212 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2213 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2214 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2215 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2216 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2217 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2218 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2219 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2220 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2221 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2222 other minor changes.
2223 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2224 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2225 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2226 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2227 course there's -X ..)
2228 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2229 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2230 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2232 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2233 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2234 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2235 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2236 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2241 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2247 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2250 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2254 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2260 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2266 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2272 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2278 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2281 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2282 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2283 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2284 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2286 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2287 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2291 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2297 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2300 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2304 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2307 upset. Closes: #131322
2309 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2311 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2314 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2315 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2316 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2317 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2318 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2319 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2320 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2321 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2322 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2323 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2324 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2325 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2326 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2327 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2328 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2330 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2334 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2337 - Better indenting of generated code.
2338 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2342 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2346 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2347 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2348 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2349 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2350 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2351 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2352 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2356 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2359 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2363 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2366 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2367 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2368 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2369 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2370 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2371 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2372 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2373 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2374 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2375 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2376 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2377 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2378 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2379 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2380 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2385 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2391 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2394 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2395 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2399 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2402 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2403 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2407 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2413 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2416 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2417 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2418 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2419 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2420 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2425 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2431 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2434 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2438 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2441 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2446 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2452 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2455 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2459 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2465 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2469 Also some indentation fixes.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2473 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2476 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2477 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2478 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2479 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2480 Closes: #106514, #85520
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2484 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2490 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2496 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2502 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2508 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2514 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2517 change it in debhelper v4..
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2521 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2527 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2530 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2534 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2537 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2541 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2547 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2550 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2551 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2552 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2553 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2554 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2555 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2556 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2557 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2558 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2559 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2560 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2561 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2565 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2568 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2572 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2579 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2582 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2583 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2584 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2585 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2586 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2587 program those options go to. So, for example,
2588 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2589 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2590 something complex. Closes: #89311
2591 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2595 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2598 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2599 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2600 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2604 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2607 through loop. Closes: #98598
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2611 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Missing semi-colon.
2614 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2615 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2619 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2622 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2623 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2624 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2628 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2631 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2632 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2636 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2639 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2643 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2646 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2647 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2651 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2654 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2655 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2656 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2660 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2663 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2664 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2665 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2669 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2672 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2676 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2682 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2688 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2694 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2700 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2703 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2707 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2710 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2711 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2712 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2713 followed. Closes: #85483
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2717 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2719 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2720 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2721 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2725 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2728 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2729 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2730 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2731 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2732 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2733 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2734 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2735 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2736 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2737 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2738 Closes: #88464, #77743
2739 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2740 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2741 us to deal with that gracefully.
2742 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2744 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2745 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2746 a while, Closes: #51225
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2750 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2756 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2759 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2763 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2767 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2772 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2775 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2776 don't make packlist files.
2777 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2778 debhelper coding standards.
2779 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2780 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2784 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2787 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2791 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2794 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2795 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2796 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2797 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2798 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2799 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2800 but is mildly deprecated.
2801 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2802 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2803 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2804 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2805 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2806 switching to statoverrides..
2807 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2808 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2809 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2810 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2811 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2812 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2814 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2815 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2816 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2817 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2818 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2819 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2820 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2821 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2822 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2824 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2825 variable names, pod man pages).
2826 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2827 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2828 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2829 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2830 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2831 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2832 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2836 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2842 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2849 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2852 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2856 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2858 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2859 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2860 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2864 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2866 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2867 they were previously ignored.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2871 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2873 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2874 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2878 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2880 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2881 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2882 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2886 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2888 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2892 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2894 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2895 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2899 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2901 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2902 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2903 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2904 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2905 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2906 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2907 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2908 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2909 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2910 it is an obsolete program.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2914 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2916 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2920 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2924 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2926 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2930 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2932 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2934 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2936 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2940 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2946 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * typo: Closes, #78567
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2952 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2958 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2964 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2967 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2968 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2969 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2970 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2971 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2975 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2978 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2983 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2986 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2987 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2988 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2989 backwards-compatability.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2993 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2996 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2997 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2998 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2999 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3000 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3001 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3003 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3004 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3005 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3007 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3009 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3010 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3011 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3012 should now be raised to severity important..
3013 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3014 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3018 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3021 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3026 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3032 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3038 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3044 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3051 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3054 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3055 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3056 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3057 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3061 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3067 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3070 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3071 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3072 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3073 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3074 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3075 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3080 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3083 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3087 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3093 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3096 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3101 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3104 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3105 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3106 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3107 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3111 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3115 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3118 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3121 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3122 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3125 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3127 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3128 the TODO entry about it.
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3132 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3139 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3142 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3143 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3147 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3150 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3151 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3152 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3153 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3157 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3163 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3170 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3173 (this appears to be logal).
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3177 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3180 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3181 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3182 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3183 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3187 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3193 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3196 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3197 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3198 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3199 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3203 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3209 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3212 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3216 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3223 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3226 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3227 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3228 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3233 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3240 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3246 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3249 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3250 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3251 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3252 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3253 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3254 notice until v2 is complete.
3255 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3256 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3257 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3258 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3259 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3260 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3262 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3263 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3264 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3265 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3269 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3275 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3282 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3285 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3289 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3296 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3299 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3300 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3301 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3302 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3307 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3310 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3311 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3312 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3317 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3320 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3321 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3325 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3328 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3332 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3335 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3339 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3346 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3349 depend on the build and install targets.
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3353 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3356 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3360 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3367 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3373 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3379 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3382 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3383 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3384 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3385 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3386 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3387 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3389 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3390 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3391 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3392 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3393 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3394 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3395 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3399 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3405 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3411 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3414 right place. Closes: #55065
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3418 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3425 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3428 * Copyright date updates.
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3432 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3435 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3440 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3446 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3453 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3459 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3465 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3471 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3474 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3475 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3476 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3477 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3478 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3479 bits until all files have been registered.
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3483 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_installmanpages:
3486 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3487 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3488 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3489 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3490 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3491 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3492 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3493 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3494 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3495 otherwise change the result at all.
3497 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3498 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3499 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3500 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3501 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3506 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3512 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3515 act on files that don't exist.
3516 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3517 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3518 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3520 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3521 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3522 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3523 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3527 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3533 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3539 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3542 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3546 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3549 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3551 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3552 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3553 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3557 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3560 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3561 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3562 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3563 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3564 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3565 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3566 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3568 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3570 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3574 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3581 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3587 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3593 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3596 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3600 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3606 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3612 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3615 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3616 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3617 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3618 I made some changes, though:
3619 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3620 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3621 that is a clear violation of policy.
3622 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3623 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3624 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3625 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3626 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3627 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3628 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3629 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3630 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3632 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3636 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3642 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3645 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3649 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3652 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3653 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3658 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3664 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3671 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3674 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3675 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3676 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3677 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3678 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3679 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3680 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3684 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3690 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3694 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3695 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3699 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3705 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3708 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3712 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3715 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3716 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3720 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3722 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3727 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3731 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3735 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3738 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3739 for the dependancies to be generated.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3743 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3746 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3750 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3753 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3754 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3755 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3760 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3763 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3764 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3768 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3774 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3780 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3783 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3787 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3793 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3796 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3797 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3798 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3799 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3800 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3801 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3802 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3803 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3804 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3805 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3806 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3807 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3811 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3814 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3815 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3817 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3818 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3819 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3820 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3821 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3822 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3824 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3825 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3829 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3832 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3836 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3843 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3846 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3851 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3854 for building debhelper.
3855 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3859 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3866 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3869 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3873 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3876 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3877 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3878 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3879 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3880 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3881 it's always available.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3885 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3888 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3889 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3890 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3894 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3897 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3898 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3902 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3908 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3911 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3915 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3921 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3924 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3925 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3926 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3930 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3933 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3938 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3941 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3942 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3944 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3945 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3949 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3955 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3961 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3964 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3968 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3971 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3972 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3974 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3978 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3981 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3982 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3983 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3987 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3990 things if CDPATH is set.
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3994 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4000 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4003 seems to make sense for the transition.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4007 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4010 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4015 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4018 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4019 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4023 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4026 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4030 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4033 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4034 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4035 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4036 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4040 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4046 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4049 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4050 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4051 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4052 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4053 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4054 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4055 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4056 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4057 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4058 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4063 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4066 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4067 * README: mention doc/v2
4068 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4069 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4073 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4075 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4076 be using this script RSN.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4080 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4083 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4084 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4085 more than 1 init script.
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4089 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4092 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4096 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * Changed perl version detection.
4099 * Changed call to find.
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4103 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4106 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4108 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4113 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * Really include dh_installpam.
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4119 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4122 * Wrote man page for same.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4126 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4129 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4130 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4135 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4142 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4145 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4146 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4147 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4148 x bit was being set!
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4152 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4155 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4156 well. (Closes: 38900)
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4160 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4163 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4164 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4168 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4174 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4181 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4187 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4190 help from Julian Gilbey.
4191 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4192 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4193 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4194 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4195 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4196 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4197 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4202 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4208 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4215 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4221 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4227 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4230 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4234 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4237 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4241 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4244 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4248 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4254 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4257 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4261 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4267 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4273 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4276 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4277 may be deleted. (#35845)
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4281 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * Various man page enhancements.
4284 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4289 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4292 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4293 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4297 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4300 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4301 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4302 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4304 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4305 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4310 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4316 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * Another very minor typo fix.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4322 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * Very minor typo fix.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4328 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4331 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4332 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4336 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4342 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4345 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4346 variables properly (#34850).
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4350 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4356 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4359 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4360 (automatically generated by build process).
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4364 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4366 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4370 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4373 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4374 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4376 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4380 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4383 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4387 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * README: minor typo fix.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4393 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4396 leave it at that. :-)
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4400 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4406 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4412 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4415 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4416 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4417 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4421 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4424 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4428 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4431 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4435 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4438 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4439 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4440 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4441 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4445 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4448 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4449 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4450 Craig Small for spotting this.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4454 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4457 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4458 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4462 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4468 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4471 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4475 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4477 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4478 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4479 working on the last version of debhelper.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4483 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4486 being made. (#23255)
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4490 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4496 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4499 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4503 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4506 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4507 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4508 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4509 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4513 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4516 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4517 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4518 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4519 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4521 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4522 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4524 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4529 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4535 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4541 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4544 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4545 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4546 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4547 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4548 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4549 suidregister actually supports it.
4550 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4551 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4555 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4562 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4565 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4566 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4567 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4568 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4569 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4570 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4571 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4575 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4577 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4578 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4582 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4585 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4586 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4587 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4588 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4592 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4595 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4597 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4598 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4599 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4600 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4601 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4602 effect, either. (#30118)
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4606 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4612 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4615 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4616 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4620 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4626 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4629 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4630 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4631 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4632 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4636 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4639 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4640 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4644 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4650 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4653 packages, painlessly.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4657 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4663 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4669 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4675 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * The perl conversion is complete.
4679 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4681 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4682 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4683 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4688 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4691 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4692 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4693 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4697 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4700 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4702 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4704 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4705 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4709 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4712 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4713 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4717 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4723 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4726 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4727 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4728 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4729 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4730 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4734 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4737 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4738 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4739 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4740 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4744 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4747 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4751 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4754 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4755 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4756 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4757 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4758 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4759 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4760 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4761 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4765 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4771 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4774 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4775 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4776 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4781 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4784 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4788 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4791 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4795 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4798 sections of shared libraries.
4799 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4800 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4801 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4802 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4803 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4804 things you don't want them to.
4805 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4806 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4810 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4813 shared libraries. (#26414)
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4817 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4819 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4820 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4821 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4822 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4826 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4828 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4830 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4832 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4833 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4834 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4835 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4836 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4840 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4843 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4847 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4850 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4851 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4856 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4858 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4859 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4863 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4865 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4866 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4867 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4868 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4869 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4870 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4872 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4873 remove debian/files properly.
4874 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4875 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4876 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4877 * Removed bogus menu file.
4879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4881 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4883 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4884 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4888 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4891 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4892 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4893 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4894 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4895 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4896 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4900 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4903 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4904 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4905 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4906 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4910 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4917 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4920 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4921 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4923 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4924 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4925 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4926 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4927 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4928 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4932 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4935 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4936 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4937 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4938 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4939 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4940 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4941 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4942 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4943 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4944 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4945 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4946 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4947 passed any switches.
4948 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4952 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4955 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4956 at all for a long while.
4957 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4958 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4959 large chunks in the process.
4960 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4961 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4962 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4967 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4970 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4972 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4977 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4980 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4981 that don't always have the same files in them.
4982 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4983 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4984 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4988 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4992 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4993 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4994 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4995 updating 27 man pages.
4996 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4997 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4998 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4999 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5000 programs act on. (#25247)
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5004 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5008 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5009 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5010 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5011 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5012 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5013 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5018 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5020 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5025 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5032 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5035 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5039 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5045 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5048 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5049 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5050 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5051 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5052 package by accident.
5053 * Is version 1.0 next?
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5057 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5060 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5061 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5065 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5068 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5069 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5070 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5071 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5072 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5074 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5079 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5082 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5083 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5087 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5090 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5094 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5097 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5098 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5103 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5109 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5112 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5113 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5118 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5124 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5127 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5128 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5129 past week. Thanks, guys!
5131 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5132 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5133 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5134 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5135 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5136 would do in the same situation.
5137 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5138 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5140 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5142 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5143 permissions changed.
5144 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5145 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5146 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5147 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5148 files are treated identically.
5149 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5150 * Minor man page fixes.
5151 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5152 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5153 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5157 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5160 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5161 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5162 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5163 use -X multiple times, too.
5164 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5165 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5169 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5172 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5173 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5177 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5180 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5184 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5187 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5188 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5189 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5190 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5191 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5192 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5193 shape if you're starting a new package.
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5197 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5200 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5204 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5207 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5208 because of missing symlinks.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5212 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5218 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5221 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5222 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5223 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5224 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5225 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5227 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5228 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5232 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5234 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5235 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5236 to be changed after the fact :-)
5237 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5241 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5243 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5244 no version string after the -V.
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5248 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5250 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5251 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5256 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5259 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5263 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5266 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5267 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5268 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5269 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5270 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5271 I always welcome corrections!
5273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5275 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5277 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5281 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5284 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5285 * Documented this new switch.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5289 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5292 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5293 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5294 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5295 no packages use the old behavior.
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5299 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5302 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5303 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5307 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5310 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5314 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5320 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5323 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5327 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5330 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5331 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5332 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5336 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5342 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5345 into the source package by accident.
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5349 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5352 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5353 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5354 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5355 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5356 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5357 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5362 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5366 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5367 inspired to implement some of it.
5368 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5372 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5375 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5379 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5382 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5383 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5387 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5390 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5391 have done.) (#17598)
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5395 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5401 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5407 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5410 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5414 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5417 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5418 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5422 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5425 argument processor in perl.
5426 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5427 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5428 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5429 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5433 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5436 type directories. (#16933)
5437 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5438 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5439 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5440 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5441 are supported. (#16935)
5442 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5447 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5450 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5454 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5458 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5459 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5460 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5461 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5462 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5463 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5467 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5470 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5471 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5473 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5474 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5475 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5476 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5477 a given package, or -i or -a.
5478 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5479 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5480 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5481 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5482 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5483 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5484 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5485 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5486 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5488 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5489 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5490 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5494 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5497 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5498 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5503 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5506 does not have a section.
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5510 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5513 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5514 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5515 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5519 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * Fixed typo #16215.
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5525 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5528 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5529 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5530 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5531 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5532 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5537 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5540 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5541 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5542 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5547 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5553 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5559 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5562 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5563 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5564 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5565 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5566 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5567 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5571 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5577 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5580 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5584 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5587 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5588 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5589 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5593 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5596 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5600 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5606 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5609 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5613 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5616 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5620 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5626 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5629 postinst, postrm, etc.
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5633 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5639 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5642 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5643 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5644 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5645 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5646 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5650 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5653 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5654 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5658 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5661 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5665 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5668 installing package files into.
5669 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5674 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5678 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5682 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5684 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5688 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5690 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5691 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5695 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5698 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5699 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5700 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5701 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5705 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5707 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5708 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5709 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5710 multiple binary packages.
5711 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5712 should rebuild them with this version.
5713 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5717 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5719 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5720 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5724 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5727 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5731 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5734 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5735 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5736 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5737 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5738 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5739 debian/README.debian.
5740 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5741 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5742 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5743 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5744 in a few situations.)
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5748 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5754 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5760 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5763 * Fixed several man pages.
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5767 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5770 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5771 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5775 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5778 is ready for general use.
5779 * Added man pages for all commands.
5780 * Multiple binary package support.
5781 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5782 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5783 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5785 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5786 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5787 auto-installed as parameters.
5788 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5790 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5793 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5794 the package build directory it is to act on.
5795 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5796 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5797 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5801 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5803 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5804 ready to replace debstd.
5806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400