1 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
3 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
4 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
5 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
9 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
12 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
16 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
19 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
23 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
25 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
26 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
27 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
28 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
29 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
30 options that they do not support.
31 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
32 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
33 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
34 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
35 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
36 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
41 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
45 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
46 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
47 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
48 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
49 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
50 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
51 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
52 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
53 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
57 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
60 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
61 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
62 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
63 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
67 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Typo. Closes: #558654
70 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
71 installed. Closes: #558782
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
75 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
78 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
79 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
80 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
81 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
82 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
86 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
88 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
89 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
90 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
91 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
95 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
98 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
99 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
103 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
105 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
109 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
111 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
112 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
113 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
114 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
115 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
116 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
117 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
118 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
119 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
120 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
121 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
122 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
123 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
124 time soon.) Closes: #554509
125 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
127 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
128 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
129 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
130 document id. Closes: #555677
131 * Typo. Closes: #555659
132 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
133 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
134 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
135 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
137 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
138 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
139 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
144 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
147 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
148 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
149 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
150 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
151 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
152 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
153 translation (#494300 part 2)
156 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
158 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
159 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
160 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
161 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
162 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
166 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
169 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
170 (It was only run once due to logging.)
171 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
172 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
173 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
174 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
175 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
176 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
177 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
178 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
179 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
180 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
184 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
188 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
191 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
192 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
196 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
199 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
200 flag with arch all/any packages.
201 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
202 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
203 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
204 situation. Closes: #540794
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
208 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
212 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
213 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
214 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
215 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
216 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
219 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
220 the default. Closes: #538201
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
225 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
229 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
230 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
231 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
232 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
233 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
235 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
236 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
237 * Above Closes: #491117
238 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
243 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
249 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
250 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
251 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
255 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
258 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
259 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
260 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
261 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
262 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
267 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
270 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
271 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
275 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
277 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
281 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
283 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
284 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
286 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
287 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
288 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
292 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
294 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
295 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
299 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
305 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
307 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
308 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
309 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
314 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
316 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
320 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
323 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
324 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
325 created by using `python' first during build and install.
327 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
332 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
334 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
338 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
340 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
341 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
345 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
347 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
351 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
353 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
357 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
359 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
360 contributed by Modestas Vainius
361 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
362 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
363 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
364 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
365 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
366 that support it. Closes: #480577
367 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
368 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
369 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
371 - Adds support for cmake.
372 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
373 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
375 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
377 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
378 that use them. The options are:
379 --sourcedir, --destdir
380 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
381 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
382 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
383 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
384 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
388 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
394 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
397 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
398 default. Closes: #537140
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
402 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
404 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
405 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
406 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
410 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
413 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
417 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
420 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
424 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
427 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
429 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
430 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
431 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
435 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
438 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
439 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
440 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
444 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
446 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
447 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
448 warning or deprecation message.
449 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
450 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
451 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
452 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
453 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
454 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
455 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
456 Closes: #534639, #357434
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
460 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
466 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
469 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
470 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
471 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
472 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
474 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
475 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
476 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
480 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
486 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
493 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
496 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
500 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
504 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
505 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
507 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
508 file support. Closes: #494914
509 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
513 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
516 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
517 parameters. Closes: #527256
518 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
519 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
520 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
524 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
528 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
529 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
530 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
534 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
537 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
538 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
539 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
543 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
546 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
547 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
549 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
550 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
551 by triggers). Closes: #521181
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
555 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
559 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
563 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
566 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
567 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
568 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
569 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
574 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
580 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
582 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
583 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
584 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
585 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
586 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
587 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
589 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
590 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
591 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
592 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
593 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
594 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
598 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
601 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
602 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
603 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
604 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
605 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
607 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
611 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
613 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
617 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
619 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
620 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
621 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
622 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
623 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
624 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
625 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
626 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
627 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
628 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
629 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
633 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
635 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
636 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
638 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
639 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
640 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
641 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
643 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
644 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
648 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
650 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
651 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
652 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
653 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
654 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
655 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
656 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
658 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
659 that uses them. Affected options are:
660 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
661 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
662 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
663 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
664 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
665 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
666 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
667 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
668 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
669 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
670 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
671 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
675 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
682 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
688 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
690 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
691 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
693 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
694 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
695 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
696 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
697 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
699 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
701 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
702 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
703 rules (see bug #509756).
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
707 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
710 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
713 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
714 * Typo. Closes: #493062
715 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
716 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
720 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
723 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
724 empty files. Closes: #490937
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
728 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
734 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
741 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
744 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
745 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
746 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
747 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
752 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
754 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
755 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
756 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
757 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
761 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
764 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
765 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
766 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
767 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
768 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
772 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
774 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
779 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
781 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
782 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
783 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
784 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
785 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
786 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
787 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
788 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
789 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
790 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
794 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
797 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
798 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
799 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
800 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
802 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
803 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
804 breaking backwards compatibility.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
808 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
811 message in perl 5.10.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
815 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
821 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Convert copyright file to new format.
824 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
828 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
831 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
835 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
838 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
839 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
840 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
841 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
842 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
843 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
844 logging by dh_listpackages.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
848 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
851 run and there are no packages of that type.
852 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
853 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
854 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
855 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
857 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
858 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
862 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
864 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
865 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
866 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
870 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
872 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
873 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
874 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
876 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
877 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
878 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
879 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
880 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
881 planned but not yet implemented.)
882 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
883 if the Makefile has such a target.
884 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
885 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
886 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
887 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
888 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
889 but not yet implemented.)
890 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
891 recommended default, especially when using dh.
892 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
893 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
894 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
896 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
898 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
899 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
901 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
902 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
903 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
908 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
911 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
912 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
916 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
918 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
919 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
920 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
924 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
930 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
936 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
939 just those installed by the program.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
943 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
946 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
947 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
951 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
954 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
955 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
956 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
957 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
961 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
964 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
965 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
969 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
971 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
972 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
973 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
977 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
980 with policy. Closes: #461392
981 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
982 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
983 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
984 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
985 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
989 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
992 Closes: #460340, #460351
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
996 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
999 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1000 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1001 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1002 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1006 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1009 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1010 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1011 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1012 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1013 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1014 package build directory won't work.
1015 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1016 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1017 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1018 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1019 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1020 mode. Closes: #459426
1021 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1026 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1029 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1033 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1037 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1038 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1039 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1040 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1041 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1042 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1046 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1049 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1050 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1051 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1052 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1056 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1059 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1060 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1061 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1062 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1063 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1067 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1070 debian/package.triggers files.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1074 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1077 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1081 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1084 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1085 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1086 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1087 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1092 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1095 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1099 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1102 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1103 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1105 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1110 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1114 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1115 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1116 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1120 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1127 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1134 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1137 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1139 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1140 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1141 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1143 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1144 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1145 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1149 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1152 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1153 * Update urls to web page.
1154 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1155 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1156 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1157 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1161 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1164 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1165 - typo in alternatives call
1166 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1168 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1169 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1173 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1176 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1181 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1187 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1193 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1196 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1198 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1199 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1200 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1201 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1202 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1203 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1204 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1205 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1206 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1207 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1208 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1212 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1215 package install. Closes: #415717
1216 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1217 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1218 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1219 script and then remove the python files.
1220 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1221 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1222 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1223 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1224 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1225 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1226 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1227 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1228 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1229 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1230 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1231 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1232 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1236 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Correct typo in french translation
1242 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1243 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1245 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1247 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1248 Closes: #406921, #381940
1249 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1251 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1252 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1253 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1254 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1255 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1256 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1257 specified). Closes: #381851
1258 * Misc minor changes.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1262 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1269 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1270 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1274 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1280 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1281 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1284 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1285 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1287 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1288 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1289 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1290 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1294 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1297 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1300 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1304 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1310 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1316 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1317 a difficult situation.
1318 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1319 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1320 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1321 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1322 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1323 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1324 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1325 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1326 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1327 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1331 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Non-maintainer upload.
1334 * Update of dh_python
1335 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1336 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1338 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1339 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1340 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1341 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1342 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1344 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1346 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Non-maintainer upload.
1349 * Update of dh_python
1350 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1351 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1352 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1353 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1354 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1355 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1356 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1357 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1358 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1359 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1361 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1362 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1363 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1364 the not too-distant future).
1365 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1366 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1367 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1368 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1369 thus made the build fail.
1371 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1373 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Non-maintainer upload.
1376 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1378 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1380 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1383 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1384 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1385 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1386 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1387 package. Closes: #301424
1388 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1389 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1390 fonts). Closes: #372686
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1394 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1400 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1401 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1402 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1403 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1404 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1405 above, but already depends on that.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1409 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1412 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1413 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1414 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1415 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1416 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1420 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1426 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1432 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1433 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1437 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1440 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1444 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1448 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1449 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1450 new version (0.24.1).
1451 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1452 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1455 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1456 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1457 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1458 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1459 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1460 new directory on their own.
1461 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1462 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1466 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1469 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1470 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1471 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1472 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1476 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1479 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1480 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1481 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1482 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1483 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1487 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1493 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1497 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1498 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1502 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1503 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1507 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1509 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1510 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1512 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1513 ignored. Closes: #337664
1515 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1520 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1526 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1531 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1532 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1533 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1534 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1535 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1536 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1537 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1541 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1544 version. Closes: #350607
1545 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1546 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1547 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1548 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1552 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1555 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1556 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1557 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1561 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1568 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1574 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1577 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1581 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1584 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1585 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1586 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1587 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1588 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1589 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1593 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1596 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1597 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1602 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1605 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1609 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1612 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1616 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1619 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1620 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1621 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1622 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1623 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1624 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1628 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1632 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1633 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1634 link. Closes: #346405
1635 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1637 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1638 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1639 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1640 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1641 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1642 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1643 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1647 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1654 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1660 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1663 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1667 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1670 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1675 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1679 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1680 installed. Closes: #342033
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1684 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1687 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1688 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1689 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1694 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1700 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1706 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1710 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1711 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1712 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1716 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1719 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1724 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1731 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1737 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1740 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1741 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1742 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1743 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1744 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1745 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1746 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1748 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1752 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1755 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1756 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1760 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1763 in standard man dirs.
1764 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1768 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1774 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1777 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1782 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1789 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1796 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1799 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1800 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1804 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1807 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1808 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1809 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1811 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1813 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1819 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1825 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1828 mode. Closes: #324161
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1832 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1835 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1836 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1837 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1838 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1846 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1847 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1848 is necesary for sanity.
1849 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1850 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1855 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1857 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1858 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1862 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1865 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1869 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1875 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1878 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1879 released, so use at your own risk.
1880 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1881 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1883 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1884 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1885 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1886 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1887 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1888 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1889 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1890 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1891 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1892 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1893 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1894 including twice per config file line now..
1895 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1896 and simplfy the rules file.
1897 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1898 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1899 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1901 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1902 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1906 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1909 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1913 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1916 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1920 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1923 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1927 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1930 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1931 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1932 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1933 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1934 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1935 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1939 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1942 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1943 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1944 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1949 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1952 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1953 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1958 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1961 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1962 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1963 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1968 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1971 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1972 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1973 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1977 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1983 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1990 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1993 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1994 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1995 unknown. Closes: #282924
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1999 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2006 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Spanish man page updates.
2009 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2023 * dh_desktop: reindent
2024 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2025 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2029 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2037 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2041 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2043 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2047 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2050 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2051 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2055 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2061 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2067 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2074 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2077 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2081 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2084 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2085 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2086 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2087 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2088 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2089 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2091 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2092 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2093 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2094 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2095 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2096 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2097 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2098 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2099 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2100 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2101 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2102 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2103 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2104 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2105 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2106 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2110 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2117 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2120 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2124 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2127 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2131 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2134 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2138 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2141 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2145 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2151 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2157 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2163 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2166 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2167 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2168 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2172 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2175 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2179 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2182 but occasionally right and necessary.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2186 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2189 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2190 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2191 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2192 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2193 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2197 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2200 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2202 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2203 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2204 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2205 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2206 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2207 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2208 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2209 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2210 postinst scripts for udebs.
2211 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2215 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2218 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2220 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2221 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2225 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2231 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2238 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2245 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2248 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2252 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2255 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2259 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2262 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2265 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2266 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2270 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2276 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2279 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2283 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2286 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2287 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2288 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2290 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2292 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2293 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2294 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2298 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2301 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2306 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2309 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2310 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2311 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2316 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2322 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2328 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2331 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2332 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2333 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2334 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2335 associated -dbg packages.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2339 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2342 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2346 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2349 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2353 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2356 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2360 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2363 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2368 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2371 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2375 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2378 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2383 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2386 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2390 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2394 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2395 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2396 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2397 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2398 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2399 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2400 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2401 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2402 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2403 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2407 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2410 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2418 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2419 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2423 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2426 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2427 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2432 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2435 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2439 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2442 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2446 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2449 out section number. Closes: #204731
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2453 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2460 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2466 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2472 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2475 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2476 removal. Closes: #204286
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2480 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2483 renaming. Closes: #203548
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2487 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2490 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2491 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2495 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2507 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2513 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2516 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2517 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2518 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2525 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2526 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2530 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2536 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2543 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2546 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2551 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2554 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2558 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2561 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2563 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2564 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2568 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2571 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2576 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2579 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2583 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2589 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2591 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2595 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2598 it break hard links (see #188663).
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2602 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2605 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2609 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2615 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2619 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2620 debconf-mergetemplates
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2624 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2627 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2631 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2634 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2638 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2641 * Update debhelper(1).
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2645 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2648 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2649 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2650 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2651 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2652 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2656 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2659 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2660 the shell. Closes: #178524
2661 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2665 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2668 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2672 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2675 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2679 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2682 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2683 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2684 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2685 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2690 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2693 files from installation.
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2697 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2700 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2701 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2705 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2708 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2712 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2715 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2719 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2725 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2731 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2735 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2736 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2738 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2742 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2745 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2746 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2747 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2748 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2752 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2755 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2759 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2762 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2763 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2767 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2771 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2776 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2782 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2786 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2787 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2788 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2793 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2796 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2797 practice. Closes: #163303
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2801 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2807 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2814 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2817 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2819 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2820 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2821 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2822 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2823 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2827 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2830 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2835 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2841 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2848 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2851 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2856 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2862 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2868 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2874 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2881 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2884 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2885 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2886 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2887 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2892 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2898 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2905 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2908 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2909 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2913 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2916 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2917 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2918 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2919 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2920 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2924 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2927 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2929 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2934 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2937 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2941 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2944 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2945 right thing. Closes: #150644
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2949 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * Stupid, evil typo.
2952 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2956 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2963 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2966 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2967 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2972 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2978 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2981 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2985 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2988 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2989 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2994 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2997 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3001 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3007 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3010 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3011 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3015 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3021 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * Removing perl warning message.
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3027 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3030 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3031 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3032 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3033 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3034 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3035 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3036 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3037 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3041 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3047 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3054 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3057 debconf-mergetemplate.
3058 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3059 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3063 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3066 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3067 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3068 dh_install, which ...
3069 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3070 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3071 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3072 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3073 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3074 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3075 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3076 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3077 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3078 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3079 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3080 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3081 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3082 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3083 other minor changes.
3084 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3085 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3086 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3087 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3088 course there's -X ..)
3089 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3090 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3091 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3093 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3094 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3095 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3096 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3097 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3102 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3108 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3111 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3115 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3121 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3127 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3133 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3139 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3142 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3143 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3144 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3145 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3147 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3148 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3152 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3158 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3161 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3165 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3168 upset. Closes: #131322
3170 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3172 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3175 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3176 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3177 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3178 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3179 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3180 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3181 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3182 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3183 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3184 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3185 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3186 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3187 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3188 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3189 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3191 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3195 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3198 - Better indenting of generated code.
3199 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3203 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3207 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3208 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3209 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3210 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3211 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3212 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3213 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3217 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3220 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3224 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3227 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3228 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3229 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3230 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3231 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3232 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3233 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3234 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3235 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3236 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3237 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3238 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3239 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3240 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3241 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3246 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3252 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3255 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3256 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3260 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3263 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3264 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3268 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3274 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3277 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3278 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3279 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3280 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3281 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3286 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3292 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3295 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3299 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3302 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3307 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3313 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3316 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3320 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3326 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3330 Also some indentation fixes.
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3334 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3337 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3338 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3339 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3340 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3341 Closes: #106514, #85520
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3345 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3351 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3357 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3363 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3369 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3375 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3378 change it in debhelper v4..
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3382 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3388 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3391 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3395 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3398 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3402 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3408 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3411 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3412 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3413 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3414 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3415 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3416 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3417 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3418 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3419 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3420 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3421 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3422 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3426 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3429 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3433 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3440 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3443 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3444 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3445 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3446 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3447 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3448 program those options go to. So, for example,
3449 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3450 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3451 something complex. Closes: #89311
3452 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3456 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3459 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3460 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3461 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3465 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3468 through loop. Closes: #98598
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3472 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * Missing semi-colon.
3475 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3476 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3480 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3483 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3484 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3485 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3489 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3492 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3493 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3497 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3500 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3504 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3507 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3508 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3512 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3515 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3516 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3517 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3521 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3524 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3525 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3526 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3530 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3533 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3537 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3543 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3549 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3555 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3561 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3564 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3568 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3571 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3572 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3573 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3574 followed. Closes: #85483
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3578 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3580 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3581 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3582 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3586 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3589 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3590 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3591 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3592 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3593 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3594 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3595 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3596 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3597 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3598 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3599 Closes: #88464, #77743
3600 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3601 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3602 us to deal with that gracefully.
3603 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3605 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3606 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3607 a while, Closes: #51225
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3611 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3617 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3620 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3624 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3628 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3633 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3636 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3637 don't make packlist files.
3638 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3639 debhelper coding standards.
3640 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3641 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3645 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3648 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3652 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3655 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3656 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3657 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3658 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3659 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3660 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3661 but is mildly deprecated.
3662 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3663 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3664 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3665 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3666 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3667 switching to statoverrides..
3668 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3669 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3670 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3671 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3672 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3673 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3675 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3676 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3677 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3678 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3679 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3680 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3681 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3682 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3683 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3685 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3686 variable names, pod man pages).
3687 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3688 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3689 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3690 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3691 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3692 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3693 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3697 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3703 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3710 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3713 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3717 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3719 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3720 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3721 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3725 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3727 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3728 they were previously ignored.
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3732 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3734 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3735 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3739 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3741 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3742 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3743 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3747 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3749 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3753 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3755 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3756 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3760 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3762 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3763 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3764 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3765 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3766 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3767 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3768 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3769 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3770 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3771 it is an obsolete program.
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3775 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3777 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3781 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3785 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3787 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3791 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3793 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3795 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3797 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3801 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3807 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * typo: Closes, #78567
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3813 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3819 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3825 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3828 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3829 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3830 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3831 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3832 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3836 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3839 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3844 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3847 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3848 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3849 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3850 backwards-compatibility.
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3854 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3857 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3858 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3859 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3860 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3861 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3862 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3864 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3865 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3866 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3868 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3870 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3871 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3872 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3873 should now be raised to severity important..
3874 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3875 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3879 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3882 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3887 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3893 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3899 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3905 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3912 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3915 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3916 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3917 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3918 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3922 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3928 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3931 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3932 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3933 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3934 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3935 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3936 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3941 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3944 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3948 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3954 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3957 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3962 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3965 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3966 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3967 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3968 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3972 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3976 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3979 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3982 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3983 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3986 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3988 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3989 the TODO entry about it.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3993 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4000 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4003 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4004 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4008 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4011 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4012 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4013 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4014 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4018 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4024 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4031 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4034 (this appears to be logal).
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4038 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4041 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4042 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4043 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4044 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4048 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4054 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4057 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4058 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4059 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4060 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4064 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4070 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4073 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4077 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4084 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4087 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4088 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4089 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4094 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4101 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4107 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4110 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4111 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4112 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4113 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4114 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4115 notice until v2 is complete.
4116 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4117 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4118 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4119 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4120 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4121 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4123 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4124 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4125 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4126 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4130 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4143 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4146 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4157 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4160 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4161 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4162 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4163 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4168 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4171 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4172 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4173 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4178 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4181 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4182 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4186 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4189 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4193 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4196 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4200 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4207 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4210 depend on the build and install targets.
4212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4214 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4216 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4217 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4221 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4228 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4234 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4240 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4243 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4244 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4245 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4246 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4247 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4248 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4250 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4251 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4252 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4253 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4254 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4255 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4256 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4260 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4266 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4272 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4275 right place. Closes: #55065
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4279 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4286 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4289 * Copyright date updates.
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4293 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4296 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4301 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4307 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4314 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4320 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4326 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4332 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4335 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4336 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4337 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4338 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4339 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4340 bits until all files have been registered.
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4344 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_installmanpages:
4347 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4348 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4349 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4350 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4351 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4352 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4353 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4354 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4355 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4356 otherwise change the result at all.
4358 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4359 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4360 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4361 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4362 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4367 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4373 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4376 act on files that don't exist.
4377 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4378 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4379 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4381 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4382 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4383 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4384 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4388 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4394 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4400 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4403 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4407 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4410 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4412 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4413 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4414 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4418 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4421 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4422 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4423 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4424 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4425 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4426 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4427 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4429 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4431 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4435 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4442 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4448 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4454 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4457 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4461 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4467 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4473 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4476 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4477 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4478 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4479 I made some changes, though:
4480 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4481 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4482 that is a clear violation of policy.
4483 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4484 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4485 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4486 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4487 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4488 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4489 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4490 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4491 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4493 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4497 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4503 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4506 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4510 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4513 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4514 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4519 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4525 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4532 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4535 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4536 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4537 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4538 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4539 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4540 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4541 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4545 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4551 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4555 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4556 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4560 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4566 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4569 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4573 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4576 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4577 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4581 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4583 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4588 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4592 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4596 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4599 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4600 for the dependancies to be generated.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4607 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4611 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4614 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4615 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4616 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4621 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4624 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4625 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4629 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4635 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4641 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4644 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4648 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4650 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4654 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4656 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4657 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4658 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4659 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4660 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4661 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4662 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4663 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4664 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4665 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4666 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4667 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4668 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4672 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4675 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4676 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4678 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4679 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4680 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4681 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4682 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4683 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4685 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4686 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4690 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4693 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4697 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4707 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4712 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4715 for building debhelper.
4716 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4720 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4727 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4730 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4734 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4737 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4738 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4739 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4740 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4741 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4742 it's always available.
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4746 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4749 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4750 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4751 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4755 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4758 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4759 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4763 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4772 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4776 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4782 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4785 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4786 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4787 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4791 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4794 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4799 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4802 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4803 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4805 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4806 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4810 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4816 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4822 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4825 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4829 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4832 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4833 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4835 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4839 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4842 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4843 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4844 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4848 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4851 things if CDPATH is set.
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4855 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4861 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4864 seems to make sense for the transition.
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4868 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4871 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4876 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4879 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4880 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4884 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4887 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4891 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4894 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4895 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4896 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4897 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4901 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4907 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4910 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4911 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4912 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4913 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4914 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4915 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4916 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4917 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4918 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4919 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4924 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4927 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4928 * README: mention doc/v2
4929 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4930 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4934 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4936 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4937 be using this script RSN.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4941 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4944 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4945 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4946 more than 1 init script.
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4950 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4953 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4957 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * Changed perl version detection.
4960 * Changed call to find.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4964 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4967 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4969 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4974 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * Really include dh_installpam.
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4980 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4983 * Wrote man page for same.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4987 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4990 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4991 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4996 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5003 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5006 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5007 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5008 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5009 x bit was being set!
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5013 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5016 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5017 well. (Closes: 38900)
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5021 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5024 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5025 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5029 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5035 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5042 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5048 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5051 help from Julian Gilbey.
5052 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5053 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5054 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5055 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5056 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5057 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5058 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5063 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5069 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5076 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5082 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5088 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5091 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5095 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5098 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5102 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5105 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5109 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5115 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5118 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5122 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5128 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5134 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5137 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5138 may be deleted. (#35845)
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5142 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * Various man page enhancements.
5145 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5150 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5152 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5153 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5154 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5158 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5161 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5162 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5163 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5165 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5166 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5171 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5177 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * Another very minor typo fix.
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5183 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * Very minor typo fix.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5189 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5192 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5193 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5197 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5203 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5206 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5207 variables properly (#34850).
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5211 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5217 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5220 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5221 (automatically generated by build process).
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5225 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5227 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5231 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5234 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5235 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5237 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5241 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5243 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5244 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5248 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * README: minor typo fix.
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5254 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5257 leave it at that. :-)
5259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5261 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5263 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5267 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5273 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5276 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5277 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5278 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5282 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5285 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5289 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5292 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5296 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5299 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5300 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5301 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5302 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5306 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5309 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5310 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5311 Craig Small for spotting this.
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5315 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5318 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5319 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5323 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5329 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5332 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5336 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5338 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5339 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5340 working on the last version of debhelper.
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5344 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5347 being made. (#23255)
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5351 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5357 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5360 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5364 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5367 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5368 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5369 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5370 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5374 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5377 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5378 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5379 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5380 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5382 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5383 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5385 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5390 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5396 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5402 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5404 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5405 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5406 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5407 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5408 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5409 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5410 suidregister actually supports it.
5411 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5412 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5416 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5423 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5426 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5427 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5428 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5429 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5430 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5431 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5432 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5436 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5438 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5439 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5443 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5446 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5447 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5448 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5449 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5453 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5456 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5458 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5459 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5460 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5461 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5462 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5463 effect, either. (#30118)
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5467 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5473 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5476 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5477 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5481 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5487 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5490 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5491 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5492 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5493 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5497 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5500 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5501 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5505 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5507 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5511 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5514 packages, painlessly.
5516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5518 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5520 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5524 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5530 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5536 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * The perl conversion is complete.
5540 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5542 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5543 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5544 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5549 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5552 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5553 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5554 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5558 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5561 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5563 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5565 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5566 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5570 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5573 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5574 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5578 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5584 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5587 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5588 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5589 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5590 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5591 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5595 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5598 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5599 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5600 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5601 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5605 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5608 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5612 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5615 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5616 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5617 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5618 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5619 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5620 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5621 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5622 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5626 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5632 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5634 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5635 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5636 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5637 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5642 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5645 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5649 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5652 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5656 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5659 sections of shared libraries.
5660 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5661 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5662 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5663 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5664 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5665 things you don't want them to.
5666 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5667 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5671 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5674 shared libraries. (#26414)
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5678 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5680 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5681 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5682 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5683 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5687 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5689 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5691 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5693 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5694 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5695 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5696 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5697 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5701 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5704 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5708 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5711 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5712 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5717 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5719 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5720 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5724 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5727 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5728 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5729 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5730 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5731 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5733 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5734 remove debian/files properly.
5735 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5736 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5737 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5738 * Removed bogus menu file.
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5742 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5745 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5749 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5752 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5753 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5754 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5755 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5756 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5757 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5761 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5764 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5765 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5766 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5767 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5771 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5778 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5781 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5782 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5784 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5785 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5786 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5787 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5788 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5789 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5793 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5795 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5796 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5797 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5798 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5799 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5800 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5801 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5802 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5803 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5804 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5805 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5806 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5807 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5808 passed any switches.
5809 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5813 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5815 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5816 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5817 at all for a long while.
5818 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5819 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5820 large chunks in the process.
5821 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5822 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5823 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5828 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5830 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5831 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5833 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5838 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5841 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5842 that don't always have the same files in them.
5843 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5844 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5845 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5849 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5851 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5853 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5854 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5855 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5856 updating 27 man pages.
5857 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5858 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5859 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5860 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5861 programs act on. (#25247)
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5865 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5869 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5870 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5871 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5872 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5873 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5874 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5879 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5881 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5886 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5888 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5893 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5896 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5900 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5902 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5906 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5909 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5910 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5911 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5912 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5913 package by accident.
5914 * Is version 1.0 next?
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5918 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5921 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5922 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5926 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5929 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5930 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5931 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5932 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5933 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5935 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5940 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5943 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5944 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5948 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5951 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5955 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5958 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5959 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5964 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5970 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5973 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5974 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5979 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5985 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5987 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5988 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5989 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5990 past week. Thanks, guys!
5992 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5993 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5994 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5995 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5996 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5997 would do in the same situation.
5998 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5999 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6001 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6003 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6004 permissions changed.
6005 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6006 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6007 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6008 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6009 files are treated identically.
6010 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6011 * Minor man page fixes.
6012 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6013 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6014 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6018 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6020 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6021 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6022 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6023 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6024 use -X multiple times, too.
6025 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6026 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6030 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6032 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6033 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6034 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6038 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6040 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6041 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6045 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6048 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6049 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6050 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6051 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6052 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6053 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6054 shape if you're starting a new package.
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6058 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6061 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6065 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6067 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6068 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6069 because of missing symlinks.
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6073 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6079 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6081 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6082 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6083 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6084 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6085 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6086 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6088 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6089 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6093 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6095 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6096 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6097 to be changed after the fact :-)
6098 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6102 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6104 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6105 no version string after the -V.
6107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6109 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6111 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6112 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6117 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6120 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6124 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6127 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6128 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6129 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6130 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6131 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6132 I always welcome corrections!
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6136 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6138 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6142 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6145 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6146 * Documented this new switch.
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6150 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6153 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6154 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6155 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6156 no packages use the old behavior.
6158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6160 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6162 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6163 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6164 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6168 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6170 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6171 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6175 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6177 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6181 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6184 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6188 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6190 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6191 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6192 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6193 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6197 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6199 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6203 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6206 into the source package by accident.
6208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6210 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6212 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6213 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6214 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6215 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6216 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6217 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6218 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6223 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6225 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6227 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6228 inspired to implement some of it.
6229 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6233 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6235 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6236 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6240 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6242 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6243 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6244 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6248 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6250 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6251 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6252 have done.) (#17598)
6254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6256 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6258 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6262 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6264 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6268 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6270 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6271 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6275 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6277 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6278 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6279 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6283 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6285 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6286 argument processor in perl.
6287 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6288 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6289 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6290 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6294 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6296 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6297 type directories. (#16933)
6298 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6299 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6300 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6301 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6302 are supported. (#16935)
6303 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6308 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6310 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6311 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6315 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6319 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6320 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6321 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6322 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6323 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6324 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6328 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6330 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6331 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6332 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6334 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6335 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6336 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6337 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6338 a given package, or -i or -a.
6339 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6340 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6341 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6342 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6343 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6344 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6345 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6346 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6347 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6349 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6350 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6351 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6355 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6357 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6358 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6359 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6364 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6366 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6367 does not have a section.
6369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6371 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6373 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6374 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6375 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6376 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6380 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6382 * Fixed typo #16215.
6384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6386 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6388 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6389 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6390 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6391 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6392 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6393 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6398 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6400 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6401 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6402 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6403 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6408 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6410 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6414 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6416 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6420 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6422 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6423 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6424 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6425 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6426 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6427 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6428 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6432 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6434 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6438 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6440 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6441 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6445 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6447 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6448 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6449 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6450 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6454 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6456 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6457 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6461 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6463 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6467 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6469 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6470 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6474 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6476 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6477 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6481 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6483 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6487 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6489 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6490 postinst, postrm, etc.
6492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6494 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6496 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6500 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6502 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6503 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6504 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6505 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6506 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6507 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6511 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6513 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6514 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6515 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6519 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6521 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6522 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6526 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6528 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6529 installing package files into.
6530 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6535 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6537 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6539 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6543 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6545 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6549 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6551 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6552 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6556 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6558 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6559 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6560 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6561 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6562 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6566 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6568 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6569 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6570 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6571 multiple binary packages.
6572 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6573 should rebuild them with this version.
6574 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6578 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6580 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6581 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6585 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6587 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6588 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6592 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6594 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6595 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6596 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6597 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6598 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6599 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6600 debian/README.debian.
6601 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6602 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6603 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6604 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6605 in a few situations.)
6607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6609 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6611 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6615 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6617 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6621 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6623 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6624 * Fixed several man pages.
6626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6628 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6630 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6631 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6632 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6636 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6638 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6639 is ready for general use.
6640 * Added man pages for all commands.
6641 * Multiple binary package support.
6642 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6643 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6644 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6646 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6647 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6648 auto-installed as parameters.
6649 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6651 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6654 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6655 the package build directory it is to act on.
6656 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6657 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6658 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6662 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6664 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6665 ready to replace debstd.
6667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400