1 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
3 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
4 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
5 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
6 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
7 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
8 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
9 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
10 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
11 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
12 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
13 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
17 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
19 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
20 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
22 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
23 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
24 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
25 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
27 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
28 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
32 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
34 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
35 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
36 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
37 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
38 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
39 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
40 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
42 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
43 that uses them. Affected options are:
44 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
45 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
46 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
47 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
48 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
49 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
50 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
51 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
52 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
53 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
54 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
55 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
59 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
65 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
67 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
68 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
70 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
71 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
72 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
73 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
74 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
76 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
78 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
79 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
80 rules (see bug #509756).
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
84 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
90 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
91 * Typo. Closes: #493062
92 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
93 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
97 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
100 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
101 empty files. Closes: #490937
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
105 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
111 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
118 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
120 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
121 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
122 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
123 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
124 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
129 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
131 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
132 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
133 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
134 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
138 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
141 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
142 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
143 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
144 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
145 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
149 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
156 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
158 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
159 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
160 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
161 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
162 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
163 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
164 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
165 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
166 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
167 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
171 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
174 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
175 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
176 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
177 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
179 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
180 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
181 breaking backwards compatability.
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
185 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
188 message in perl 5.10.
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
192 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
198 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
200 * Convert copyright file to new format.
201 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
205 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
208 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
212 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
215 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
216 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
217 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
218 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
219 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
220 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
221 logging by dh_listpackages.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
225 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
228 run and there are no packages of that type.
229 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
230 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
231 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
232 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
234 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
235 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
239 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
241 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
242 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
243 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
247 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
250 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
251 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
253 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
254 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
255 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
256 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
257 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
258 planned but not yet implemented.)
259 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
260 if the Makefile has such a target.
261 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
262 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
263 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
264 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
265 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
266 but not yet implemented.)
267 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
268 recommended default, especially when using dh.
269 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
270 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
271 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
273 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
275 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
276 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
278 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
279 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
280 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
285 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
288 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
289 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
293 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
295 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
296 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
297 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
301 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
307 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
313 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
316 just those installed by the program.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
320 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
323 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
324 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
328 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
331 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
332 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
333 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
334 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
338 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
340 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
341 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
342 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
346 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
349 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
350 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
354 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
357 with policy. Closes: #461392
358 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
359 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
360 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
361 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
362 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
366 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
369 Closes: #460340, #460351
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
373 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
376 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
377 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
378 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
379 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
383 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
386 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
387 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
388 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
389 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
390 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
391 package build directory won't work.
392 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
393 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
394 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
395 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
396 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
397 mode. Closes: #459426
398 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
403 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
406 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
410 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
414 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
415 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
416 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
417 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
418 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
419 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
423 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
426 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
427 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
428 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
429 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
433 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
436 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
437 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
438 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
439 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
440 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
444 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
447 debian/package.triggers files.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
451 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
454 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
458 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
461 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
462 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
463 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
464 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
469 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
472 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
476 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
478 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
479 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
480 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
482 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
487 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
491 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
492 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
493 * Typo. Closes: #441272
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
497 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
504 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
511 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
514 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
516 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
517 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
518 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
520 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
521 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
522 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
526 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
529 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
530 * Update urls to web page.
531 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
533 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
534 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
538 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
541 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
542 - typo in alternatives call
543 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
545 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
546 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
550 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
553 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
558 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
564 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
570 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
573 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
575 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
576 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
577 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
578 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
579 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
580 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
581 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
582 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
583 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
584 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
585 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
589 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
592 package install. Closes: #415717
593 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
594 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
595 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
596 script and then remove the python files.
597 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
598 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
599 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
600 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
601 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
602 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
603 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
604 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
605 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
606 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
607 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
608 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
609 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
613 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Correct typo in french translation
619 * Typo. Closes: #400571
620 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
622 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
624 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
625 Closes: #406921, #381940
626 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
628 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
629 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
630 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
631 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
632 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
633 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
634 specified). Closes: #381851
635 * Misc minor changes.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
639 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
646 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
647 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
651 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
657 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
658 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
661 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
662 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
664 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
665 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
666 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
667 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
671 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
674 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
677 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
681 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
687 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
693 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
694 a difficult situation.
695 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
696 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
697 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
698 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
699 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
700 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
701 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
702 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
703 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
704 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
708 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Non-maintainer upload.
711 * Update of dh_python
712 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
713 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
715 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
716 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
717 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
718 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
719 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
721 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
723 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Non-maintainer upload.
726 * Update of dh_python
727 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
728 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
729 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
730 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
731 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
732 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
733 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
734 specific python version. Closes: #373853
735 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
736 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
738 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
739 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
740 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
741 the not too-distant future).
742 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
743 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
744 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
745 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
746 thus made the build fail.
748 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
750 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Non-maintainer upload.
753 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
755 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
757 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
760 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
761 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
762 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
763 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
764 package. Closes: #301424
765 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
766 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
767 fonts). Closes: #372686
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
771 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
777 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
778 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
779 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
780 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
781 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
782 above, but already depends on that.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
786 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
789 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
790 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
791 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
792 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
793 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
797 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
803 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
806 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
809 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
810 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
814 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
817 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
821 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
825 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
826 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
827 new version (0.24.1).
828 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
829 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
832 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
833 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
834 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
835 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
836 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
837 new directory on their own.
838 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
839 * Fix broken directory removal code.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
843 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
846 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
847 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
848 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
849 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
853 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
856 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
857 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
858 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
859 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
860 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
864 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
870 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Typo. Closes: #358904
874 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
875 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
879 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
880 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
884 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
886 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
887 || exit 0 instead of the intended
889 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
890 ignored. Closes: #337664
892 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
897 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
903 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
908 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
909 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
910 the dh_installdebconf manpage
911 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
912 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
913 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
914 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
918 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
920 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
921 version. Closes: #350607
922 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
923 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
924 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
925 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
929 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
931 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
932 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
933 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
934 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
938 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
945 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
947 * Minor bug fix from last release.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
951 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
954 language guessing. Closes: #193221
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
958 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
961 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
962 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
963 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
964 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
965 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
966 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
970 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
973 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
974 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
979 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
982 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
986 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
989 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
993 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
996 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
997 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
998 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
999 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1000 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1001 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1005 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1009 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1010 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1011 link. Closes: #346405
1012 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1014 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1015 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1016 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1017 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1018 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1019 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1020 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1024 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1031 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1037 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1040 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1044 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1047 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1052 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1056 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1057 installed. Closes: #342033
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1061 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1064 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1065 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1066 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1071 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1077 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1083 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1087 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1088 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1089 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1093 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1096 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1101 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1108 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1114 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1117 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1118 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1119 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1120 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1121 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1122 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1123 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1125 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1129 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1132 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1133 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1137 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1140 in standard man dirs.
1141 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1145 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1151 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1154 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1159 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1166 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1173 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1176 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1177 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1181 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1184 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1185 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1186 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1188 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1190 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1196 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1202 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1205 mode. Closes: #324161
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1209 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1212 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1213 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1214 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1215 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1220 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1223 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1224 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1225 is necesary for sanity.
1226 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1227 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1232 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1234 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1235 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1239 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1242 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1246 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1252 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1255 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1256 released, so use at your own risk.
1257 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1258 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1260 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1261 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1262 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1263 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1264 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1265 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1266 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1267 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1268 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1269 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1270 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1271 including twice per config file line now..
1272 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1273 and simplfy the rules file.
1274 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1275 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1276 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1278 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1279 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1283 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1286 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1290 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1293 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1297 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1300 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1304 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1307 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1308 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1309 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1310 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1311 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1312 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1316 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1319 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1320 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1321 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1326 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1329 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1330 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1335 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1338 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1339 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1340 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1345 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1348 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1349 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1350 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1354 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1360 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1367 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1370 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1371 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1372 unknown. Closes: #282924
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1376 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1383 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Spanish man page updates.
1386 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1391 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1397 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1400 * dh_desktop: reindent
1401 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1402 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1406 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1412 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1414 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1418 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1420 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1424 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1427 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1428 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1432 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1438 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1444 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1451 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1454 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1458 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1461 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1462 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1463 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1464 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1465 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1466 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1468 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1469 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1470 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1471 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1472 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1473 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1474 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1475 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1476 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1477 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1478 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1479 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1480 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1481 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1482 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1483 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1487 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1494 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1497 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1501 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1504 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1508 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1511 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1515 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1518 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1522 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1528 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1534 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1540 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1543 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1544 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1545 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1549 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1552 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1556 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1559 but occasionally right and necessary.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1563 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1566 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1567 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1568 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1569 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1570 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1574 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1577 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1579 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1580 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1581 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1582 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1583 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1584 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1585 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1586 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1587 postinst scripts for udebs.
1588 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1592 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1595 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1597 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1598 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1602 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1608 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1615 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1622 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1625 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1629 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1632 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1636 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1639 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1642 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1643 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1647 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1653 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1656 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1660 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1663 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1664 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1665 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1667 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1669 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1670 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1671 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1675 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1678 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1683 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1686 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1687 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1688 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1693 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1699 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1705 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1708 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1709 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1710 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1711 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1712 associated -dbg packages.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1716 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1719 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1723 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1726 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1730 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1733 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1737 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1740 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1745 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1748 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1752 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1755 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1760 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1763 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1767 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1771 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1772 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1773 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1774 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1775 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1776 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1777 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1778 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1779 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1780 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1784 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1787 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1792 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1795 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1796 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1800 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1803 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1804 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1809 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1812 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1816 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1819 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1823 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1826 out section number. Closes: #204731
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1830 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1837 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1849 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1852 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1853 removal. Closes: #204286
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1857 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1860 renaming. Closes: #203548
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1864 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1867 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1868 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1872 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1878 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1884 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1890 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1893 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1894 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1895 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1899 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1902 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1903 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1907 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1913 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1920 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1923 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1928 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1931 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1935 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1938 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1940 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1941 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1945 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1948 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1953 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1956 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1960 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1966 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1968 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1972 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1975 it break hard links (see #188663).
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1979 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1982 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1986 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1992 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1996 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1997 debconf-mergetemplates
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2001 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2004 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2008 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2011 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2015 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2018 * Update debhelper(1).
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2022 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2025 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2026 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2027 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2028 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2029 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2033 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2036 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2037 the shell. Closes: #178524
2038 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2042 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2045 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2049 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2052 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2056 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2059 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2060 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2061 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2062 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2067 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2070 files from installation.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2074 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2077 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2078 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2082 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2085 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2089 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2092 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2096 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2102 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2108 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2112 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2113 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2115 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2119 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2122 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2123 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2124 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2125 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2129 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2132 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2136 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2139 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2140 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2144 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2148 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2159 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2163 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2164 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2165 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2170 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2173 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2174 practice. Closes: #163303
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2178 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2184 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2191 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2194 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2196 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2197 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2198 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2199 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2200 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2204 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2207 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2212 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2218 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2225 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2228 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2233 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2239 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2245 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2251 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2258 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2261 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2262 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2263 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2264 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2269 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2275 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2282 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2285 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2286 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2290 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2293 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2294 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2295 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2296 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2297 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2304 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2306 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2311 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2314 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2318 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2321 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2322 right thing. Closes: #150644
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2326 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Stupid, evil typo.
2329 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2333 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2340 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2343 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2344 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2349 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2355 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2358 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2362 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2365 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2366 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2371 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2374 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2378 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2384 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2387 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2388 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2392 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2398 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Removing perl warning message.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2404 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2407 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2408 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2409 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2410 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2411 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2412 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2413 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2414 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2418 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2431 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2434 debconf-mergetemplate.
2435 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2436 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2440 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2443 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2444 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2445 dh_install, which ...
2446 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2447 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2448 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2449 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2450 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2451 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2452 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2453 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2454 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2455 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2456 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2457 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2458 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2459 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2460 other minor changes.
2461 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2462 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2463 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2464 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2465 course there's -X ..)
2466 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2467 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2468 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2470 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2471 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2472 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2473 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2474 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2479 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2485 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2488 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2492 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2498 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2504 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2510 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2516 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2519 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2520 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2521 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2522 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2524 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2525 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2529 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2535 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2538 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2542 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2545 upset. Closes: #131322
2547 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2549 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2552 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2553 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2554 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2555 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2556 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2557 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2558 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2559 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2560 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2561 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2562 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2563 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2564 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2565 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2566 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2568 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2572 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2575 - Better indenting of generated code.
2576 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2580 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2584 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2585 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2586 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2587 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2588 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2589 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2590 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2594 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2597 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2601 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2604 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2605 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2606 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2607 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2608 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2609 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2610 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2611 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2612 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2613 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2614 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2615 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2616 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2617 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2618 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2623 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2629 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2632 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2633 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2637 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2640 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2641 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2645 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2651 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2654 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2655 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2656 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2657 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2658 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2663 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2669 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2672 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2676 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2679 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2684 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2690 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2693 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2697 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2703 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2707 Also some indentation fixes.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2711 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2714 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2715 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2716 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2717 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2718 Closes: #106514, #85520
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2722 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2728 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2734 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2740 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2746 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2752 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2755 change it in debhelper v4..
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2759 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2765 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2768 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2772 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2775 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2779 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2785 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2788 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2789 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2790 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2791 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2792 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2793 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2794 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2795 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2796 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2797 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2798 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2799 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2803 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2806 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2810 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2817 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2820 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2821 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2822 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2823 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2824 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2825 program those options go to. So, for example,
2826 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2827 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2828 something complex. Closes: #89311
2829 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2833 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2836 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2837 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2838 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2842 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2845 through loop. Closes: #98598
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2849 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Missing semi-colon.
2852 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2853 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2857 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2860 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2861 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2862 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2866 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2869 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2870 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2874 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2877 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2881 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2884 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2885 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2889 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2892 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2893 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2894 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2898 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2901 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2902 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2903 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2907 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2910 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2914 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2920 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2926 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2932 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2938 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2941 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2945 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2948 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2949 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2950 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2951 followed. Closes: #85483
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2955 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2957 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2958 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2959 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2963 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2966 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2967 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2968 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2969 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2970 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2971 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2972 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2973 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2974 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2975 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2976 Closes: #88464, #77743
2977 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2978 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2979 us to deal with that gracefully.
2980 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2982 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2983 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2984 a while, Closes: #51225
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2988 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2994 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2997 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3001 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3005 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3010 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3013 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3014 don't make packlist files.
3015 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3016 debhelper coding standards.
3017 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3018 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3022 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3025 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3029 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3032 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3033 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3034 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3035 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3036 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3037 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3038 but is mildly deprecated.
3039 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3040 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3041 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3042 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3043 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3044 switching to statoverrides..
3045 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3046 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3047 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3048 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3049 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3050 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3052 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3053 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3054 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3055 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3056 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3057 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3058 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3059 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3060 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3062 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3063 variable names, pod man pages).
3064 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3065 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3066 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3067 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3068 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3069 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3070 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3074 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3080 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3087 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3090 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3094 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3096 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3097 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3098 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3102 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3104 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3105 they were previously ignored.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3109 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3111 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3112 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3116 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3118 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3119 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3120 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3124 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3126 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3130 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3132 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3133 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3137 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3139 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3140 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3141 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3142 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3143 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3144 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3145 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3146 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3147 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3148 it is an obsolete program.
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3152 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3154 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3158 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3162 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3164 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3168 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3170 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3172 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3174 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3178 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3184 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * typo: Closes, #78567
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3190 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3196 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3202 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3205 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3206 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3207 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3208 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3209 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3213 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3216 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3221 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3224 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3225 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3226 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3227 backwards-compatability.
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3231 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3234 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3235 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3236 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3237 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3238 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3239 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3241 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3242 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3243 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3245 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3247 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3248 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3249 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3250 should now be raised to severity important..
3251 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3252 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3256 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3259 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3264 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3270 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3276 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3282 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3289 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3292 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3293 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3294 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3295 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3299 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3305 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3308 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3309 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3310 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3311 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3312 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3313 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3318 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3321 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3325 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3331 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3334 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3339 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3342 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3343 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3344 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3345 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3349 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3353 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3356 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3359 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3360 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3363 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3365 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3366 the TODO entry about it.
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3370 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3377 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3380 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3381 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3385 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3388 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3389 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3390 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3391 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3395 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3401 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3408 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3411 (this appears to be logal).
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3415 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3418 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3419 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3420 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3421 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3425 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3431 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3434 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3435 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3436 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3437 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3441 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3447 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3450 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3454 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3461 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3464 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3465 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3466 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3471 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3478 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3484 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3487 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3488 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3489 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3490 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3491 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3492 notice until v2 is complete.
3493 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3494 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3495 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3496 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3497 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3498 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3500 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3501 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3502 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3503 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3507 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3513 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3520 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3523 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3527 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3534 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3537 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3538 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3539 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3540 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3545 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3548 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3549 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3550 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3555 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3558 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3559 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3563 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3566 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3570 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3573 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3577 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3584 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3587 depend on the build and install targets.
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3591 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3594 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3598 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3605 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3611 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3617 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3620 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3621 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3622 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3623 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3624 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3625 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3627 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3628 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3629 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3630 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3631 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3632 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3633 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3637 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3643 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3649 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3652 right place. Closes: #55065
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3656 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3663 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3666 * Copyright date updates.
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3670 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3673 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3678 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3684 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3691 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3697 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3703 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3709 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3712 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3713 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3714 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3715 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3716 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3717 bits until all files have been registered.
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3721 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * dh_installmanpages:
3724 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3725 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3726 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3727 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3728 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3729 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3730 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3731 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3732 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3733 otherwise change the result at all.
3735 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3736 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3737 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3738 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3739 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3744 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3750 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3753 act on files that don't exist.
3754 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3755 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3756 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3758 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3759 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3760 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3761 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3765 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3771 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3777 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3780 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3784 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3787 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3789 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3790 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3791 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3795 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3798 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3799 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3800 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3801 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3802 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3803 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3804 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3806 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3808 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3812 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3819 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3825 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3831 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3834 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3838 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3844 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3850 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3853 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3854 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3855 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3856 I made some changes, though:
3857 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3858 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3859 that is a clear violation of policy.
3860 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3861 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3862 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3863 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3864 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3865 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3866 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3867 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3868 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3870 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3874 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3880 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3883 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3887 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3890 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3891 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3896 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3902 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3909 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3912 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3913 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3914 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3915 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3916 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3917 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3918 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3922 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3928 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3932 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3933 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3937 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3943 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3946 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3950 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3953 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3954 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3958 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3960 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3965 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3969 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3973 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3976 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3977 for the dependancies to be generated.
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3981 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3984 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3988 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3991 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3992 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3993 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4001 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4002 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4006 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4012 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4018 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4021 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4025 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4031 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4034 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4035 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4036 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4037 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4038 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4039 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4040 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4041 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4042 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4043 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4044 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4045 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4049 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4052 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4053 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4055 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4056 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4057 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4058 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4059 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4060 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4062 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4063 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4067 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4070 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4074 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4081 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4084 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4089 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4092 for building debhelper.
4093 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4097 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4107 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4111 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4114 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4115 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4116 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4117 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4118 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4119 it's always available.
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4123 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4126 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4127 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4128 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4132 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4135 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4136 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4140 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4146 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4149 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4159 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4162 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4163 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4164 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4168 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4171 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4176 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4179 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4180 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4182 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4183 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4193 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4199 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4202 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4209 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4210 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4212 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4216 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4219 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4220 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4221 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4228 things if CDPATH is set.
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4238 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4241 seems to make sense for the transition.
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4245 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4248 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4253 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4256 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4257 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4264 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4268 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4271 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4272 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4273 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4274 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4278 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4284 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4287 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4288 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4289 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4290 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4291 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4292 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4293 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4294 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4295 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4296 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4301 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4304 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4305 * README: mention doc/v2
4306 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4307 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4311 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4313 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4314 be using this script RSN.
4316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4318 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4320 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4321 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4322 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4323 more than 1 init script.
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4327 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4330 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4334 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * Changed perl version detection.
4337 * Changed call to find.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4341 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4344 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4346 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4351 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * Really include dh_installpam.
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4357 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4360 * Wrote man page for same.
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4364 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4367 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4368 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4373 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4380 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4383 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4384 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4385 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4386 x bit was being set!
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4390 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4393 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4394 well. (Closes: 38900)
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4398 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4401 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4402 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4406 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4412 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4419 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4425 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4428 help from Julian Gilbey.
4429 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4430 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4431 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4432 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4433 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4434 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4435 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4440 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4446 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4453 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4459 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4465 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4468 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4472 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4475 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4479 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4482 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4486 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4492 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4495 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4499 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4505 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4511 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4514 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4515 may be deleted. (#35845)
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4519 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * Various man page enhancements.
4522 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4527 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4530 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4531 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4535 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4538 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4539 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4540 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4542 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4543 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4548 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4554 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * Another very minor typo fix.
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4560 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * Very minor typo fix.
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4566 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4569 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4570 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4574 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4580 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4583 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4584 variables properly (#34850).
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4588 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4594 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4597 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4598 (automatically generated by build process).
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4602 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4604 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4608 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4611 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4612 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4614 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4618 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4621 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4625 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * README: minor typo fix.
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4631 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4634 leave it at that. :-)
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4638 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4644 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4650 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4653 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4654 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4655 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4659 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4662 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4666 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4669 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4673 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4676 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4677 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4678 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4679 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4683 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4686 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4687 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4688 Craig Small for spotting this.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4692 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4695 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4696 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4700 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4706 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4708 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4709 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4713 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4715 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4716 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4717 working on the last version of debhelper.
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4721 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4724 being made. (#23255)
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4728 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4734 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4737 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4741 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4744 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4745 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4746 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4747 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4751 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4754 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4755 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4756 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4757 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4759 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4760 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4762 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4767 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4773 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4779 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4782 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4783 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4784 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4785 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4786 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4787 suidregister actually supports it.
4788 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4789 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4793 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4800 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4803 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4804 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4805 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4806 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4807 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4808 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4809 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4813 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4815 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4816 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4820 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4823 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4824 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4825 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4826 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4830 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4833 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4835 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4836 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4837 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4838 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4839 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4840 effect, either. (#30118)
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4844 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4850 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4853 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4854 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4858 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4864 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4867 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4868 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4869 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4870 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4874 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4877 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4878 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4882 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4888 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4891 packages, painlessly.
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4895 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4901 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4907 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4913 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * The perl conversion is complete.
4917 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4919 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4920 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4921 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4926 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4929 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4930 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4931 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4935 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4938 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4940 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4942 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4943 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4947 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4950 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4951 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4955 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4961 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4964 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4965 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4966 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4967 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4968 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4972 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4975 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4976 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4977 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4978 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4982 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4985 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4989 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4992 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4993 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4994 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4995 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4996 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4997 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4998 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4999 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5003 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5009 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5012 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5013 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5014 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5019 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5022 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5026 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5029 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5033 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5036 sections of shared libraries.
5037 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5038 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5039 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5040 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5041 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5042 things you don't want them to.
5043 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5044 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5048 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5051 shared libraries. (#26414)
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5055 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5057 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5058 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5059 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5060 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5064 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5068 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5070 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5071 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5072 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5073 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5074 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5078 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5081 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5085 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5088 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5089 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5094 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5097 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5101 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5104 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5105 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5106 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5107 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5108 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5110 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5111 remove debian/files properly.
5112 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5113 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5114 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5115 * Removed bogus menu file.
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5119 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5122 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5126 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5129 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5130 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5131 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5132 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5133 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5134 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5138 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5141 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5142 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5143 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5144 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5148 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5155 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5158 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5159 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5161 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5162 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5163 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5164 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5165 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5166 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5170 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5173 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5174 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5175 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5176 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5177 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5178 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5179 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5180 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5181 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5182 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5183 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5184 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5185 passed any switches.
5186 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5190 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5193 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5194 at all for a long while.
5195 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5196 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5197 large chunks in the process.
5198 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5199 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5200 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5205 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5208 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5210 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5215 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5218 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5219 that don't always have the same files in them.
5220 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5221 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5222 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5226 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5230 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5231 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5232 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5233 updating 27 man pages.
5234 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5235 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5236 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5237 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5238 programs act on. (#25247)
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5242 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5246 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5247 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5248 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5249 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5250 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5251 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5256 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5263 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5270 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5273 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5277 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5283 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5286 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5287 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5288 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5289 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5290 package by accident.
5291 * Is version 1.0 next?
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5295 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5298 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5299 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5303 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5306 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5307 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5308 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5309 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5310 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5312 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5317 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5319 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5320 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5321 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5325 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5328 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5332 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5335 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5336 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5341 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5347 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5349 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5350 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5351 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5356 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5362 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5365 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5366 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5367 past week. Thanks, guys!
5369 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5370 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5371 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5372 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5373 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5374 would do in the same situation.
5375 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5376 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5378 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5380 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5381 permissions changed.
5382 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5383 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5384 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5385 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5386 files are treated identically.
5387 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5388 * Minor man page fixes.
5389 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5390 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5391 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5395 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5398 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5399 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5400 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5401 use -X multiple times, too.
5402 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5403 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5407 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5410 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5411 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5415 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5418 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5422 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5425 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5426 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5427 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5428 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5429 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5430 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5431 shape if you're starting a new package.
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5435 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5438 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5442 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5445 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5446 because of missing symlinks.
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5450 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5456 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5459 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5460 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5461 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5462 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5463 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5465 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5466 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5470 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5472 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5473 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5474 to be changed after the fact :-)
5475 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5479 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5481 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5482 no version string after the -V.
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5486 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5488 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5489 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5494 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5497 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5501 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5504 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5505 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5506 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5507 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5508 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5509 I always welcome corrections!
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5513 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5519 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5522 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5523 * Documented this new switch.
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5527 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5530 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5531 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5532 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5533 no packages use the old behavior.
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5537 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5540 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5541 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5545 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5548 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5552 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5558 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5561 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5565 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5568 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5569 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5570 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5574 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5580 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5583 into the source package by accident.
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5587 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5590 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5591 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5592 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5593 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5594 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5595 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5600 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5604 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5605 inspired to implement some of it.
5606 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5610 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5613 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5617 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5620 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5621 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5625 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5628 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5629 have done.) (#17598)
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5633 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5639 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5645 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5648 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5652 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5655 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5656 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5660 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5663 argument processor in perl.
5664 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5665 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5666 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5667 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5671 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5674 type directories. (#16933)
5675 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5676 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5677 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5678 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5679 are supported. (#16935)
5680 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5685 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5688 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5692 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5696 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5697 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5698 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5699 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5700 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5701 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5705 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5708 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5709 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5711 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5712 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5713 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5714 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5715 a given package, or -i or -a.
5716 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5717 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5718 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5719 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5720 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5721 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5722 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5723 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5724 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5726 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5727 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5728 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5732 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5735 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5736 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5741 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5744 does not have a section.
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5748 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5751 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5752 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5753 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5757 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * Fixed typo #16215.
5761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5763 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5765 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5766 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5767 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5768 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5769 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5770 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5775 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5778 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5779 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5780 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5785 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5791 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5797 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5800 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5801 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5802 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5803 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5804 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5805 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5809 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5815 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5817 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5818 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5822 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5824 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5825 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5826 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5827 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5831 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5834 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5838 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5844 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5847 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5851 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5854 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5858 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5864 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5867 postinst, postrm, etc.
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5871 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5877 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5880 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5881 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5882 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5883 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5884 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5888 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5891 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5892 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5896 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5899 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5903 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5905 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5906 installing package files into.
5907 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5912 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5916 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5920 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5922 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5926 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5929 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5933 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5936 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5937 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5938 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5939 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5943 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5945 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5946 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5947 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5948 multiple binary packages.
5949 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5950 should rebuild them with this version.
5951 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5955 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5958 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5962 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5965 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5969 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5971 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5972 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5973 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5974 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5975 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5976 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5977 debian/README.debian.
5978 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5979 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5980 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5981 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5982 in a few situations.)
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5986 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5992 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5998 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6001 * Fixed several man pages.
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6005 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6008 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6009 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6013 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6015 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6016 is ready for general use.
6017 * Added man pages for all commands.
6018 * Multiple binary package support.
6019 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6020 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6021 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6023 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6024 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6025 auto-installed as parameters.
6026 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6028 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6031 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6032 the package build directory it is to act on.
6033 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6034 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6035 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6039 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6041 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6042 ready to replace debstd.
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400