1 debhelper (7.4.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
4 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
6 -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:01:43 -0700
8 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
11 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
12 flag with arch all/any packages.
13 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
14 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
15 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
16 situation. Closes: #540794
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
20 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
24 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
25 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
26 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
27 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
28 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
31 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
32 the default. Closes: #538201
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
37 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
41 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
42 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
43 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
44 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
45 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
47 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
48 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
49 * Above Closes: #491117
50 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
55 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
61 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
62 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
63 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
67 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
70 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
71 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
72 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
73 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
74 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
79 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
81 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
82 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
83 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
87 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
89 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
93 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
95 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
96 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
98 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
99 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
100 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
104 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
106 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
107 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
111 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
117 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
119 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
120 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
121 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
126 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
128 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
132 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
135 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
136 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
137 created by using `python' first during build and install.
139 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
144 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
146 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
150 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
152 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
153 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
157 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
159 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
163 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
165 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
169 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
171 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
172 contributed by Modestas Vainius
173 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
174 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
175 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
176 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
177 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
178 that support it. Closes: #480577
179 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
180 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
181 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
183 - Adds support for cmake.
184 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
185 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
187 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
189 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
190 that use them. The options are:
191 --sourcedir, --destdir
192 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
193 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
194 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
195 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
196 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
200 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
202 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
206 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
209 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
210 default. Closes: #537140
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
214 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
217 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
218 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
222 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
225 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
229 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
232 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
236 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
239 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
241 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
242 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
243 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
247 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
250 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
251 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
252 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
256 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
259 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
260 warning or deprecation message.
261 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
262 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
263 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
264 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
265 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
266 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
267 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
268 Closes: #534639, #357434
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
272 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
278 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
281 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
282 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
283 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
284 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
286 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
287 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
288 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
292 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
298 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
305 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
308 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
312 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
316 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
317 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
319 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
320 file support. Closes: #494914
321 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
325 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
328 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
329 parameters. Closes: #527256
330 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
331 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
332 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
336 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
340 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
341 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
342 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
346 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
349 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
350 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
351 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
355 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
358 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
359 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
361 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
362 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
363 by triggers). Closes: #521181
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
367 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
371 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
375 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
377 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
378 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
379 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
380 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
381 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
386 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
392 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
395 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
396 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
397 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
398 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
399 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
401 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
402 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
403 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
404 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
405 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
406 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
410 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
413 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
414 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
415 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
416 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
417 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
419 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
423 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
425 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
429 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
431 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
432 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
433 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
434 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
435 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
436 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
437 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
438 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
439 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
440 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
441 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
445 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
447 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
448 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
450 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
451 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
452 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
453 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
455 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
456 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
460 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
462 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
463 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
464 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
465 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
466 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
467 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
468 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
470 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
471 that uses them. Affected options are:
472 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
473 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
474 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
475 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
476 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
477 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
478 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
479 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
480 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
481 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
482 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
483 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
487 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
494 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
500 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
502 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
503 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
505 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
506 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
507 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
508 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
509 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
511 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
513 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
514 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
515 rules (see bug #509756).
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
519 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
525 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
526 * Typo. Closes: #493062
527 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
528 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
532 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
535 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
536 empty files. Closes: #490937
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
540 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
546 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
553 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
556 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
557 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
558 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
559 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
564 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
566 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
567 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
568 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
569 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
573 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
575 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
576 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
577 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
578 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
579 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
580 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
584 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
591 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
593 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
594 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
595 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
596 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
597 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
598 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
599 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
600 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
601 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
602 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
606 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
609 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
610 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
611 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
612 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
614 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
615 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
616 breaking backwards compatability.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
620 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
623 message in perl 5.10.
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
627 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
633 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Convert copyright file to new format.
636 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
640 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
643 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
647 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
650 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
651 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
652 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
653 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
654 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
655 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
656 logging by dh_listpackages.
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
660 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
663 run and there are no packages of that type.
664 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
665 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
666 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
667 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
669 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
670 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
674 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
676 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
677 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
678 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
682 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
685 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
686 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
688 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
689 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
690 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
691 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
692 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
693 planned but not yet implemented.)
694 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
695 if the Makefile has such a target.
696 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
697 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
698 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
699 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
700 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
701 but not yet implemented.)
702 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
703 recommended default, especially when using dh.
704 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
705 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
706 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
708 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
710 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
711 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
713 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
714 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
715 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
720 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
723 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
724 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
728 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
730 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
731 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
732 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
736 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
742 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
748 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
751 just those installed by the program.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
755 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
758 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
759 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
763 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
766 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
767 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
768 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
769 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
773 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
775 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
776 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
777 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
781 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
784 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
785 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
789 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
792 with policy. Closes: #461392
793 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
794 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
795 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
796 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
797 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
801 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
804 Closes: #460340, #460351
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
808 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
811 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
812 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
813 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
814 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
818 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
821 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
822 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
823 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
824 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
825 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
826 package build directory won't work.
827 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
828 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
829 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
830 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
831 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
832 mode. Closes: #459426
833 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
838 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
841 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
845 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
849 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
850 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
851 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
852 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
853 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
854 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
858 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
861 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
862 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
863 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
864 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
868 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
871 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
872 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
873 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
874 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
875 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
879 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
882 debian/package.triggers files.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
886 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
889 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
893 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
896 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
897 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
898 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
899 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
904 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
907 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
911 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
914 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
915 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
917 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
922 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
926 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
927 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
928 * Typo. Closes: #441272
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
932 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
939 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
946 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
949 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
951 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
952 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
953 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
955 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
956 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
957 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
961 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
964 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
965 * Update urls to web page.
966 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
968 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
969 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
973 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
976 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
977 - typo in alternatives call
978 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
980 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
981 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
985 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
988 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
993 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
999 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1005 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1008 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1010 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1011 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1012 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1013 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1014 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1015 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1016 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1017 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1018 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1019 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1020 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1024 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1027 package install. Closes: #415717
1028 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1029 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1030 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1031 script and then remove the python files.
1032 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1033 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1034 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1035 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1036 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1037 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1038 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1039 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1040 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1041 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1042 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1043 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1044 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1048 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Correct typo in french translation
1054 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1055 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1057 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1059 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1060 Closes: #406921, #381940
1061 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1063 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1064 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1065 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1066 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1067 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1068 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1069 specified). Closes: #381851
1070 * Misc minor changes.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1074 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1081 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1082 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1086 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1092 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1093 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1096 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1097 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1099 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1100 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1101 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1102 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1106 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1109 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1112 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1116 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1122 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1128 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1129 a difficult situation.
1130 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1131 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1132 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1133 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1134 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1135 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1136 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1137 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1138 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1139 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1143 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Non-maintainer upload.
1146 * Update of dh_python
1147 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1148 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1150 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1151 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1152 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1153 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1154 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1156 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1158 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * Non-maintainer upload.
1161 * Update of dh_python
1162 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1163 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1164 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1165 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1166 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1167 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1168 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1169 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1170 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1171 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1173 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1174 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1175 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1176 the not too-distant future).
1177 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1178 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1179 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1180 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1181 thus made the build fail.
1183 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1185 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Non-maintainer upload.
1188 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1190 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1192 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1195 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1196 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1197 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1198 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1199 package. Closes: #301424
1200 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1201 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1202 fonts). Closes: #372686
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1206 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1212 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1213 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1214 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1215 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1216 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1217 above, but already depends on that.
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1221 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1224 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1225 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1226 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1227 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1228 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1232 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1238 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1244 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1245 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1249 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1252 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1256 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1260 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1261 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1262 new version (0.24.1).
1263 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1264 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1267 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1268 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1269 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1270 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1271 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1272 new directory on their own.
1273 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1274 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1278 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1281 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1282 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1283 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1284 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1288 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1291 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1292 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1293 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1294 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1295 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1299 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1305 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1309 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1310 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1314 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1315 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1319 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1321 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1322 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1324 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1325 ignored. Closes: #337664
1327 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1332 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1338 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1343 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1344 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1345 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1346 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1347 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1348 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1349 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1353 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1356 version. Closes: #350607
1357 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1358 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1359 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1360 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1364 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1367 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1368 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1369 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1373 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1380 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1386 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1389 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1393 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1396 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1397 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1398 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1399 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1400 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1401 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1405 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1408 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1409 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1414 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1417 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1421 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1424 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1428 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1431 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1432 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1433 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1434 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1435 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1436 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1440 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1444 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1445 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1446 link. Closes: #346405
1447 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1449 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1450 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1451 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1452 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1453 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1454 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1455 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1459 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1466 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1472 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1475 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1479 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1482 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1487 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1491 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1492 installed. Closes: #342033
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1496 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1499 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1500 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1501 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1506 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1512 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1518 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1522 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1523 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1524 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1528 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1531 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1536 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1543 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1549 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1552 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1553 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1554 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1555 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1556 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1557 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1558 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1560 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1564 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1567 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1568 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1572 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1575 in standard man dirs.
1576 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1580 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1586 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1589 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1594 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1601 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1608 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1611 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1612 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1616 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1619 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1620 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1621 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1623 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1625 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1631 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1637 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1640 mode. Closes: #324161
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1644 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1647 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1648 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1649 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1650 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1655 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1658 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1659 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1660 is necesary for sanity.
1661 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1662 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1667 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1669 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1670 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1674 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1677 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1681 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1687 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1690 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1691 released, so use at your own risk.
1692 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1693 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1695 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1696 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1697 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1698 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1699 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1700 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1701 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1702 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1703 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1704 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1705 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1706 including twice per config file line now..
1707 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1708 and simplfy the rules file.
1709 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1710 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1711 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1713 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1714 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1718 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1721 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1725 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1728 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1732 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1735 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1739 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1742 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1743 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1744 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1745 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1746 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1747 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1751 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1754 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1755 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1756 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1761 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1764 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1765 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1770 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1773 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1774 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1775 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1780 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1783 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1784 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1785 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1789 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1795 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1802 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1805 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1806 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1807 unknown. Closes: #282924
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1811 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1818 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Spanish man page updates.
1821 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1826 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1832 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1835 * dh_desktop: reindent
1836 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1837 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1841 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1847 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1849 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1853 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1855 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1859 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1862 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1863 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1867 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1873 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1879 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1886 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1889 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1893 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1896 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1897 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1898 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1899 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1900 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1901 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1903 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1904 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1905 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1906 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1907 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1908 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1909 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1910 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1911 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1912 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1913 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1914 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1915 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1916 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1917 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1918 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1929 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1932 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1936 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1939 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1943 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1946 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1950 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1953 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1957 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1963 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1969 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1975 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1978 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1979 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1980 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1984 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1987 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1991 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1994 but occasionally right and necessary.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1998 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2001 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2002 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2003 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2004 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2005 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2009 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2012 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2014 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2015 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2016 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2017 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2018 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2019 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2020 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2021 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2022 postinst scripts for udebs.
2023 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2027 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2030 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2032 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2033 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2037 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2043 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2050 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2057 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2060 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2064 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2067 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2071 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2074 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2077 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2078 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2082 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2088 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2091 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2095 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2098 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2099 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2100 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2102 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2104 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2105 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2106 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2110 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2113 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2118 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2121 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2122 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2123 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2128 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2134 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2140 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2143 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2144 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2145 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2146 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2147 associated -dbg packages.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2151 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2154 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2158 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2161 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2165 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2168 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2172 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2175 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2180 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2183 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2187 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2190 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2195 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2198 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2202 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2206 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2207 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2208 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2209 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2210 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2211 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2212 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2213 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2214 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2215 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2219 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2222 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2227 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2230 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2231 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2235 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2238 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2239 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2244 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2247 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2251 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2254 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2258 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2261 out section number. Closes: #204731
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2265 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2272 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2278 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2284 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2287 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2288 removal. Closes: #204286
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2292 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2295 renaming. Closes: #203548
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2299 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2302 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2303 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2307 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2313 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2319 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2325 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2328 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2329 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2330 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2337 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2338 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2355 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2358 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2363 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2366 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2370 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2373 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2375 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2376 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2380 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2383 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2388 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2391 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2395 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2401 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2403 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2407 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2410 it break hard links (see #188663).
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2414 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2417 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2421 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2427 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2431 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2432 debconf-mergetemplates
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2436 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2439 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2443 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2446 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2450 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2453 * Update debhelper(1).
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2457 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2460 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2461 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2462 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2463 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2464 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2468 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2471 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2472 the shell. Closes: #178524
2473 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2477 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2480 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2484 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2487 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2491 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2494 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2495 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2496 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2497 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2502 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2505 files from installation.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2509 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2512 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2513 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2517 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2520 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2524 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2527 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2531 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2537 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2543 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2547 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2548 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2550 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2554 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2557 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2558 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2559 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2560 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2564 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2567 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2571 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2574 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2575 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2579 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2583 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2588 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2594 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2598 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2599 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2600 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2605 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2608 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2609 practice. Closes: #163303
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2613 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2619 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2626 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2629 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2631 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2632 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2633 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2634 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2635 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2639 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2642 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2647 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2653 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2660 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2663 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2668 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2674 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2680 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2686 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2693 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2696 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2697 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2698 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2699 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2704 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2710 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2717 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2720 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2721 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2725 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2728 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2729 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2730 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2731 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2732 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2736 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2739 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2741 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2746 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2749 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2753 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2756 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2757 right thing. Closes: #150644
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2761 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Stupid, evil typo.
2764 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2768 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2775 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2778 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2779 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2784 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2790 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2793 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2797 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2800 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2801 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2806 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2809 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2813 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2819 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2822 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2823 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2827 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2833 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Removing perl warning message.
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2839 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2842 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2843 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2844 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2845 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2846 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2847 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2848 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2849 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2853 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2859 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2866 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2869 debconf-mergetemplate.
2870 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2871 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2875 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2878 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2879 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2880 dh_install, which ...
2881 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2882 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2883 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2884 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2885 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2886 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2887 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2888 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2889 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2890 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2891 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2892 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2893 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2894 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2895 other minor changes.
2896 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2897 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2898 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2899 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2900 course there's -X ..)
2901 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2902 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2903 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2905 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2906 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2907 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2908 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2909 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2914 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2920 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2923 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2927 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2933 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2939 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2945 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2951 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2954 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2955 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2956 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2957 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2959 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2960 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2964 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2970 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2973 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2977 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2980 upset. Closes: #131322
2982 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2984 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2987 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2988 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2989 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2990 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2991 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2992 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2993 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2994 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2995 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2996 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2997 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2998 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2999 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3000 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3001 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3003 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3007 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3010 - Better indenting of generated code.
3011 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3015 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3019 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3020 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3021 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3022 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3023 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3024 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3025 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3029 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3032 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3036 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3039 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3040 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3041 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3042 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3043 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3044 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3045 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3046 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3047 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3048 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3049 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3050 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3051 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3052 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3053 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3058 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3064 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3067 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3068 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3072 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3075 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3076 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3080 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3086 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3089 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3090 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3091 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3092 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3093 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3098 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3104 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3107 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3111 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3114 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3119 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3125 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3128 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3132 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3138 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3142 Also some indentation fixes.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3146 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3149 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3150 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3151 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3152 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3153 Closes: #106514, #85520
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3157 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3163 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3169 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3175 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3181 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3187 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3190 change it in debhelper v4..
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3194 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3200 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3203 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3207 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3210 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3214 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3220 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3223 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3224 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3225 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3226 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3227 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3228 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3229 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3230 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3231 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3232 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3233 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3234 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3238 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3241 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3245 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3252 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3255 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3256 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3257 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3258 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3259 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3260 program those options go to. So, for example,
3261 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3262 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3263 something complex. Closes: #89311
3264 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3268 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3271 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3272 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3273 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3277 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3280 through loop. Closes: #98598
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3284 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * Missing semi-colon.
3287 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3288 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3292 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3295 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3296 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3297 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3301 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3304 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3305 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3309 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3312 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3316 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3319 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3320 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3324 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3327 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3328 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3329 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3333 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3336 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3337 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3338 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3342 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3345 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3349 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3355 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3361 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3367 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3373 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3376 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3380 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3383 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3384 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3385 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3386 followed. Closes: #85483
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3390 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3392 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3393 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3394 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3398 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3401 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3402 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3403 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3404 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3405 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3406 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3407 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3408 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3409 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3410 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3411 Closes: #88464, #77743
3412 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3413 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3414 us to deal with that gracefully.
3415 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3417 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3418 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3419 a while, Closes: #51225
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3423 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3429 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3432 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3436 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3440 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3445 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3448 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3449 don't make packlist files.
3450 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3451 debhelper coding standards.
3452 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3453 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3457 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3460 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3464 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3467 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3468 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3469 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3470 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3471 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3472 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3473 but is mildly deprecated.
3474 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3475 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3476 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3477 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3478 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3479 switching to statoverrides..
3480 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3481 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3482 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3483 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3484 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3485 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3487 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3488 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3489 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3490 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3491 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3492 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3493 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3494 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3495 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3497 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3498 variable names, pod man pages).
3499 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3500 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3501 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3502 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3503 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3504 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3505 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3509 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3515 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3522 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3525 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3529 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3531 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3532 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3533 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3537 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3539 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3540 they were previously ignored.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3544 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3546 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3547 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3551 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3553 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3554 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3555 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3559 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3561 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3565 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3567 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3568 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3572 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3574 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3575 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3576 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3577 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3578 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3579 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3580 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3581 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3582 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3583 it is an obsolete program.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3587 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3589 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3593 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3597 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3599 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3603 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3605 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3607 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3609 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3613 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3619 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * typo: Closes, #78567
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3625 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3631 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3637 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3640 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3641 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3642 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3643 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3644 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3648 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3651 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3656 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3659 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3660 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3661 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3662 backwards-compatability.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3666 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3669 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3670 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3671 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3672 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3673 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3674 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3676 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3677 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3678 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3680 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3682 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3683 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3684 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3685 should now be raised to severity important..
3686 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3687 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3691 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3694 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3699 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3705 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3711 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3717 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3724 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3727 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3728 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3729 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3730 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3734 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3740 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3743 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3744 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3745 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3746 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3747 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3748 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3753 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3756 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3760 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3766 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3769 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3774 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3777 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3778 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3779 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3780 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3784 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3788 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3791 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3794 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3795 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3798 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3800 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3801 the TODO entry about it.
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3805 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3812 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3815 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3816 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3820 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3823 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3824 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3825 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3826 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3830 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3836 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3843 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3846 (this appears to be logal).
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3850 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3853 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3854 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3855 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3856 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3860 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3866 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3869 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3870 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3871 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3872 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3876 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3882 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3885 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3889 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3896 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3899 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3900 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3901 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3906 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3913 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3919 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3922 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3923 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3924 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3925 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3926 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3927 notice until v2 is complete.
3928 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3929 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3930 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3931 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3932 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3933 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3935 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3936 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3937 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3938 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3942 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3948 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3955 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3958 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3962 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3969 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3972 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3973 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3974 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3975 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3980 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3983 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3984 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3985 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3990 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3993 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3994 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4001 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4005 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4008 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4012 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4019 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4022 depend on the build and install targets.
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4026 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4029 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4033 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4040 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4046 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4052 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4055 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4056 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4057 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4058 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4059 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4060 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4062 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4063 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4064 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4065 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4066 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4067 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4068 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4072 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4078 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4084 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4087 right place. Closes: #55065
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4091 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4098 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4101 * Copyright date updates.
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4105 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4108 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4113 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4119 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4126 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4132 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4138 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4144 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4147 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4148 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4149 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4150 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4151 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4152 bits until all files have been registered.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4156 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * dh_installmanpages:
4159 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4160 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4161 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4162 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4163 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4164 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4165 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4166 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4167 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4168 otherwise change the result at all.
4170 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4171 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4172 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4173 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4174 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4179 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4185 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4188 act on files that don't exist.
4189 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4190 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4191 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4193 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4194 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4195 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4196 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4200 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4206 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4212 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4215 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4219 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4222 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4224 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4225 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4226 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4230 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4233 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4234 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4235 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4236 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4237 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4238 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4239 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4241 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4243 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4247 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4254 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4260 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4266 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4269 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4273 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4279 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4285 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4288 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4289 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4290 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4291 I made some changes, though:
4292 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4293 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4294 that is a clear violation of policy.
4295 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4296 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4297 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4298 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4299 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4300 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4301 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4302 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4303 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4305 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4309 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4315 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4318 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4322 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4325 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4326 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4331 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4344 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4347 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4348 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4349 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4350 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4351 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4352 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4353 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4357 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4363 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4367 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4368 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4372 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4378 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4381 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4385 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4388 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4389 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4395 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4400 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4404 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4408 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4411 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4412 for the dependancies to be generated.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4416 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4419 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4423 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4426 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4427 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4428 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4433 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4436 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4437 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4441 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4447 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4453 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4456 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4460 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4466 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4469 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4470 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4471 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4472 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4473 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4474 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4475 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4476 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4477 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4478 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4479 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4480 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4484 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4487 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4488 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4490 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4491 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4492 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4493 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4494 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4495 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4497 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4498 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4502 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4505 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4509 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4516 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4519 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4524 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4527 for building debhelper.
4528 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4532 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4539 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4542 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4546 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4549 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4550 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4551 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4552 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4553 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4554 it's always available.
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4558 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4561 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4562 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4563 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4567 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4570 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4571 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4575 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4581 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4584 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4588 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4594 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4597 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4598 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4599 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4603 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4606 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4611 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4614 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4615 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4617 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4618 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4622 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4628 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4634 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4637 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4641 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4644 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4645 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4647 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4651 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4654 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4655 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4656 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4660 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4663 things if CDPATH is set.
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4667 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4673 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4676 seems to make sense for the transition.
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4683 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4688 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4691 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4692 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4696 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4699 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4703 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4706 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4707 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4708 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4709 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4713 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4719 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4722 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4723 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4724 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4725 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4726 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4727 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4728 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4729 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4730 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4731 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4736 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4739 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4740 * README: mention doc/v2
4741 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4742 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4746 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4748 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4749 be using this script RSN.
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4753 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4755 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4756 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4757 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4758 more than 1 init script.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4762 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4765 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4769 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * Changed perl version detection.
4772 * Changed call to find.
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4776 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4779 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4781 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4786 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * Really include dh_installpam.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4792 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4795 * Wrote man page for same.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4799 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4802 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4803 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4808 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4815 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4818 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4819 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4820 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4821 x bit was being set!
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4825 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4828 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4829 well. (Closes: 38900)
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4833 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4835 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4836 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4837 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4841 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4847 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4854 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4860 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4863 help from Julian Gilbey.
4864 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4865 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4866 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4867 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4868 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4869 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4870 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4875 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4881 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4883 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4888 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4894 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4900 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4903 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4907 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4910 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4914 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4917 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4921 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4927 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4930 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4934 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4940 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4946 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4949 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4950 may be deleted. (#35845)
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4954 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * Various man page enhancements.
4957 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4962 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4964 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4965 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4966 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4970 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4973 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4974 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4975 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4977 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4978 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4983 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4989 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * Another very minor typo fix.
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4995 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * Very minor typo fix.
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5001 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5004 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5005 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5009 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5015 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5018 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5019 variables properly (#34850).
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5023 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5029 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5032 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5033 (automatically generated by build process).
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5037 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5039 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5043 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5046 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5047 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5049 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5053 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5056 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5060 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * README: minor typo fix.
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5066 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5069 leave it at that. :-)
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5073 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5075 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5079 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5085 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5088 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5089 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5090 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5094 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5097 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5101 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5104 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5108 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5111 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5112 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5113 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5114 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5118 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5121 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5122 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5123 Craig Small for spotting this.
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5127 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5130 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5131 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5135 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5141 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5144 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5148 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5150 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5151 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5152 working on the last version of debhelper.
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5156 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5159 being made. (#23255)
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5163 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5169 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5172 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5176 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5179 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5180 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5181 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5182 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5186 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5189 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5190 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5191 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5192 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5194 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5195 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5197 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5202 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5208 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5214 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5217 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5218 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5219 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5220 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5221 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5222 suidregister actually supports it.
5223 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5224 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5228 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5230 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5235 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5238 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5239 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5240 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5241 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5242 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5243 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5244 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5248 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5250 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5251 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5255 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5258 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5259 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5260 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5261 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5265 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5268 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5270 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5271 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5272 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5273 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5274 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5275 effect, either. (#30118)
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5279 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5285 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5288 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5289 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5293 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5299 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5302 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5303 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5304 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5305 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5309 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5312 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5313 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5317 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5319 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5323 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5326 packages, painlessly.
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5330 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5336 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5342 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5348 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * The perl conversion is complete.
5352 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5354 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5355 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5356 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5361 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5363 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5364 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5365 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5366 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5370 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5373 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5375 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5377 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5378 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5382 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5385 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5386 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5390 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5396 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5399 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5400 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5401 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5402 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5403 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5407 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5410 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5411 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5412 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5413 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5417 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5420 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5424 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5427 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5428 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5429 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5430 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5431 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5432 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5433 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5434 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5438 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5444 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5447 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5448 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5449 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5454 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5457 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5461 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5464 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5468 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5471 sections of shared libraries.
5472 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5473 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5474 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5475 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5476 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5477 things you don't want them to.
5478 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5479 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5483 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5486 shared libraries. (#26414)
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5490 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5492 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5493 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5494 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5495 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5499 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5503 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5505 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5506 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5507 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5508 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5509 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5513 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5516 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5520 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5523 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5524 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5529 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5532 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5536 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5539 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5540 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5541 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5542 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5543 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5545 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5546 remove debian/files properly.
5547 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5548 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5549 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5550 * Removed bogus menu file.
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5554 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5557 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5561 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5564 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5565 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5566 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5567 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5568 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5569 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5573 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5576 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5577 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5578 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5579 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5583 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5590 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5593 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5594 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5596 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5597 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5598 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5599 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5600 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5601 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5605 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5608 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5609 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5610 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5611 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5612 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5613 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5614 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5615 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5616 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5617 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5618 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5619 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5620 passed any switches.
5621 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5625 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5628 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5629 at all for a long while.
5630 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5631 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5632 large chunks in the process.
5633 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5634 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5635 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5640 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5643 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5645 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5650 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5653 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5654 that don't always have the same files in them.
5655 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5656 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5657 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5661 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5665 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5666 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5667 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5668 updating 27 man pages.
5669 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5670 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5671 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5672 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5673 programs act on. (#25247)
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5677 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5681 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5682 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5683 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5684 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5685 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5686 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5691 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5698 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5705 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5708 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5712 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5718 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5721 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5722 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5723 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5724 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5725 package by accident.
5726 * Is version 1.0 next?
5728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5730 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5732 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5733 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5734 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5738 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5741 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5742 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5743 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5744 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5745 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5747 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5752 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5755 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5756 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5760 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5763 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5767 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5770 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5771 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5776 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5782 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5784 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5785 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5786 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5791 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5797 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5800 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5801 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5802 past week. Thanks, guys!
5804 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5805 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5806 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5807 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5808 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5809 would do in the same situation.
5810 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5811 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5813 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5815 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5816 permissions changed.
5817 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5818 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5819 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5820 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5821 files are treated identically.
5822 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5823 * Minor man page fixes.
5824 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5825 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5826 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5830 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5833 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5834 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5835 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5836 use -X multiple times, too.
5837 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5838 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5842 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5844 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5845 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5846 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5850 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5853 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5857 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5860 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5861 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5862 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5863 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5864 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5865 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5866 shape if you're starting a new package.
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5870 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5873 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5877 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5880 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5881 because of missing symlinks.
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5885 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5891 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5893 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5894 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5895 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5896 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5897 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5898 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5900 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5901 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5905 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5907 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5908 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5909 to be changed after the fact :-)
5910 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5914 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5916 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5917 no version string after the -V.
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5921 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5923 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5924 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5929 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5931 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5932 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5936 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5939 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5940 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5941 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5942 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5943 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5944 I always welcome corrections!
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5948 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5954 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5956 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5957 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5958 * Documented this new switch.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5962 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5965 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5966 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5967 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5968 no packages use the old behavior.
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5972 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5975 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5976 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5980 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5982 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5983 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5987 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5989 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5993 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5996 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6000 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6002 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6003 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6004 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6005 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6009 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6015 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6018 into the source package by accident.
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6022 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6025 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6026 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6027 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6028 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6029 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6030 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6035 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6037 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6039 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6040 inspired to implement some of it.
6041 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6045 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6048 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6052 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6055 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6056 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6060 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6062 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6063 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6064 have done.) (#17598)
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6068 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6074 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6076 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6080 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6083 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6087 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6090 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6091 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6095 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6097 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6098 argument processor in perl.
6099 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6100 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6101 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6102 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6106 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6108 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6109 type directories. (#16933)
6110 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6111 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6112 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6113 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6114 are supported. (#16935)
6115 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6120 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6122 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6123 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6127 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6129 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6131 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6132 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6133 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6134 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6135 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6136 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6140 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6143 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6144 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6146 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6147 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6148 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6149 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6150 a given package, or -i or -a.
6151 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6152 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6153 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6154 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6155 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6156 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6157 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6158 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6159 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6161 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6162 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6163 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6167 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6169 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6170 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6171 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6176 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6178 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6179 does not have a section.
6181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6183 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6185 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6186 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6187 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6188 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6192 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6194 * Fixed typo #16215.
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6198 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6201 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6202 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6203 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6204 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6205 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6210 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6212 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6213 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6214 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6215 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6220 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6222 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6226 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6228 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6232 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6235 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6236 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6237 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6238 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6239 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6240 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6244 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6246 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6250 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6252 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6253 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6257 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6259 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6260 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6261 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6262 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6266 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6268 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6269 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6273 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6275 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6279 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6281 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6282 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6286 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6289 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6293 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6299 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6301 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6302 postinst, postrm, etc.
6304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6306 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6308 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6312 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6314 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6315 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6316 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6317 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6318 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6319 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6323 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6326 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6327 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6331 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6333 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6334 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6338 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6340 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6341 installing package files into.
6342 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6347 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6349 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6351 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6355 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6357 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6361 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6363 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6364 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6368 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6370 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6371 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6372 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6373 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6374 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6378 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6380 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6381 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6382 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6383 multiple binary packages.
6384 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6385 should rebuild them with this version.
6386 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6390 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6392 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6393 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6397 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6399 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6400 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6404 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6406 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6407 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6408 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6409 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6410 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6411 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6412 debian/README.debian.
6413 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6414 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6415 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6416 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6417 in a few situations.)
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6421 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6427 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6429 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6433 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6435 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6436 * Fixed several man pages.
6438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6440 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6442 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6443 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6444 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6448 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6450 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6451 is ready for general use.
6452 * Added man pages for all commands.
6453 * Multiple binary package support.
6454 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6455 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6456 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6458 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6459 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6460 auto-installed as parameters.
6461 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6463 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6466 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6467 the package build directory it is to act on.
6468 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6469 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6470 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6474 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6476 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6477 ready to replace debstd.
6479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400