1 debhelper (7.4.21) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
4 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
5 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
6 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
7 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
8 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
9 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
10 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
11 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
12 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
13 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
14 not itself normally look will be passed to it, a behavior change which
15 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 May 2010 20:01:19 -0400
19 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
21 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
23 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
24 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
25 in control file or debhelper config files.
26 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
30 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
33 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
34 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
38 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
40 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
41 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
45 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
48 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
49 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
53 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Updated French translation.
56 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
57 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
58 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
59 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
61 * Typo. Closes: #571968
62 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
63 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
64 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
65 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
66 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
67 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
68 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
69 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
70 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
72 * dh: Improve documentation.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
76 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
78 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
79 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
80 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
84 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
87 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
91 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
94 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
98 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
101 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
102 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
103 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
104 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
105 options that they do not support.
106 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
107 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
108 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
109 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
110 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
111 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
116 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
120 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
121 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
122 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
123 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
124 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
125 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
126 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
127 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
128 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
132 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
135 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
136 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
137 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
138 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
142 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Typo. Closes: #558654
145 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
146 installed. Closes: #558782
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
150 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
153 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
154 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
155 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
156 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
157 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
161 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
163 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
164 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
165 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
166 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
170 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
173 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
174 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
178 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
180 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
184 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
186 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
187 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
188 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
189 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
190 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
191 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
192 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
193 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
194 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
195 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
196 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
197 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
198 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
199 time soon.) Closes: #554509
200 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
202 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
203 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
204 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
205 document id. Closes: #555677
206 * Typo. Closes: #555659
207 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
208 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
209 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
210 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
212 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
213 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
214 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
219 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
222 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
223 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
224 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
225 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
226 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
227 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
228 translation (#494300 part 2)
231 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
233 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
234 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
235 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
236 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
237 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
241 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
244 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
245 (It was only run once due to logging.)
246 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
247 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
248 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
249 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
250 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
251 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
252 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
253 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
254 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
255 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
259 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
263 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
266 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
267 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
271 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
274 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
275 flag with arch all/any packages.
276 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
277 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
278 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
279 situation. Closes: #540794
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
283 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
285 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
287 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
288 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
289 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
290 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
291 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
294 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
295 the default. Closes: #538201
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
300 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
304 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
305 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
306 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
307 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
308 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
310 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
311 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
312 * Above Closes: #491117
313 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
318 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
324 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
325 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
326 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
330 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
333 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
334 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
335 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
336 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
337 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
342 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
345 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
346 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
350 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
352 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
356 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
358 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
359 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
361 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
362 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
363 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
367 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
369 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
370 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
374 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
380 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
382 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
383 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
384 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
389 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
391 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
395 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
398 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
399 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
400 created by using `python' first during build and install.
402 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
407 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
409 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
413 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
415 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
416 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
420 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
422 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
426 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
428 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
432 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
434 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
435 contributed by Modestas Vainius
436 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
437 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
438 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
439 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
440 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
441 that support it. Closes: #480577
442 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
443 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
444 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
446 - Adds support for cmake.
447 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
448 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
450 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
452 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
453 that use them. The options are:
454 --sourcedir, --destdir
455 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
456 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
457 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
458 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
459 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
463 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
469 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
472 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
473 default. Closes: #537140
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
477 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
480 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
481 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
485 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
488 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
492 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
495 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
499 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
501 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
502 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
504 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
505 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
506 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
510 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
513 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
514 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
515 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
519 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
522 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
523 warning or deprecation message.
524 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
525 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
526 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
527 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
528 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
529 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
530 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
531 Closes: #534639, #357434
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
535 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
541 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
544 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
545 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
546 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
547 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
549 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
550 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
551 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
555 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
561 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
568 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
571 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
575 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
579 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
580 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
582 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
583 file support. Closes: #494914
584 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
588 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
591 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
592 parameters. Closes: #527256
593 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
594 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
595 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
599 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
603 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
604 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
605 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
609 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
612 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
613 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
614 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
618 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
621 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
622 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
624 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
625 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
626 by triggers). Closes: #521181
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
630 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
634 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
638 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
641 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
642 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
643 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
644 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
649 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
655 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
658 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
659 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
660 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
661 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
662 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
664 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
665 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
666 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
667 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
668 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
669 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
673 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
676 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
677 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
678 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
679 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
680 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
682 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
686 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
688 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
692 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
694 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
695 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
696 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
697 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
698 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
699 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
700 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
701 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
702 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
703 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
704 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
708 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
710 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
711 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
713 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
714 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
715 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
716 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
718 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
719 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
723 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
725 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
726 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
727 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
728 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
729 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
730 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
731 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
733 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
734 that uses them. Affected options are:
735 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
736 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
737 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
738 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
739 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
740 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
741 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
742 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
743 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
744 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
745 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
746 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
750 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
757 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
763 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
765 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
766 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
768 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
769 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
770 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
771 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
772 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
774 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
776 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
777 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
778 rules (see bug #509756).
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
782 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
788 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
789 * Typo. Closes: #493062
790 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
791 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
795 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
798 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
799 empty files. Closes: #490937
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
803 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
809 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
811 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
816 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
819 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
820 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
821 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
822 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
827 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
829 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
830 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
831 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
832 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
836 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
839 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
840 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
841 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
842 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
843 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
847 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
854 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
856 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
857 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
858 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
859 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
860 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
861 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
862 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
863 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
864 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
865 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
869 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
872 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
873 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
874 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
875 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
877 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
878 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
879 breaking backwards compatibility.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
883 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
886 message in perl 5.10.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
890 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
896 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Convert copyright file to new format.
899 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
903 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
905 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
906 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
910 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
913 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
914 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
915 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
916 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
917 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
918 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
919 logging by dh_listpackages.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
923 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
926 run and there are no packages of that type.
927 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
928 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
929 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
930 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
932 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
933 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
937 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
939 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
940 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
941 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
945 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
948 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
949 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
951 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
952 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
953 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
954 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
955 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
956 planned but not yet implemented.)
957 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
958 if the Makefile has such a target.
959 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
960 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
961 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
962 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
963 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
964 but not yet implemented.)
965 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
966 recommended default, especially when using dh.
967 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
968 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
969 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
971 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
973 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
974 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
976 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
977 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
978 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
983 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
986 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
987 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
991 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
993 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
994 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
995 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
999 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1005 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1011 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1014 just those installed by the program.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1018 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1021 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1022 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1026 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1029 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1030 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1031 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1032 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1036 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1039 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1040 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1044 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1047 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1048 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1052 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1055 with policy. Closes: #461392
1056 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1057 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1058 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1059 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1060 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1064 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1067 Closes: #460340, #460351
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1071 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1074 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1075 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1076 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1077 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1081 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1084 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1085 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1086 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1087 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1088 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1089 package build directory won't work.
1090 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1091 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1092 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1093 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1094 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1095 mode. Closes: #459426
1096 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1101 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1104 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1108 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1112 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1113 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1114 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1115 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1116 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1117 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1121 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1124 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1125 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1126 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1127 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1131 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1134 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1135 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1136 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1137 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1138 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1142 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1145 debian/package.triggers files.
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1149 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1152 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1156 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1159 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1160 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1161 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1162 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1167 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1170 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1174 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1177 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1178 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1180 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1185 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1189 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1190 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1191 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1195 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1202 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1209 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1212 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1214 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1215 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1216 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1218 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1219 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1220 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1224 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1227 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1228 * Update urls to web page.
1229 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1230 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1231 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1232 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1236 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1239 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1240 - typo in alternatives call
1241 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1243 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1244 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1248 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1251 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1256 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1262 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1268 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1271 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1273 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1274 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1275 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1276 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1277 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1278 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1279 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1280 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1281 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1282 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1283 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1287 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1290 package install. Closes: #415717
1291 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1292 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1293 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1294 script and then remove the python files.
1295 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1296 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1297 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1298 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1299 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1300 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1301 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1302 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1303 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1304 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1305 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1306 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1307 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1311 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Correct typo in french translation
1317 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1318 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1320 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1322 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1323 Closes: #406921, #381940
1324 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1326 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1327 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1328 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1329 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1330 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1331 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1332 specified). Closes: #381851
1333 * Misc minor changes.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1337 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1344 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1345 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1349 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1355 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1356 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1359 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1360 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1362 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1363 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1364 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1365 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1369 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1372 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1375 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1379 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1385 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1391 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1392 a difficult situation.
1393 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1394 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1395 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1396 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1397 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1398 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1399 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1400 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1401 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1402 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1406 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Non-maintainer upload.
1409 * Update of dh_python
1410 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1411 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1413 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1414 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1415 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1416 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1417 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1419 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1421 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Non-maintainer upload.
1424 * Update of dh_python
1425 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1426 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1427 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1428 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1429 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1430 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1431 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1432 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1433 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1434 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1436 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1437 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1438 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1439 the not too-distant future).
1440 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1441 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1442 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1443 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1444 thus made the build fail.
1446 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1448 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Non-maintainer upload.
1451 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1453 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1455 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1458 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1459 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1460 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1461 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1462 package. Closes: #301424
1463 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1464 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1465 fonts). Closes: #372686
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1469 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1475 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1476 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1477 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1478 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1479 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1480 above, but already depends on that.
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1484 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1487 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1488 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1489 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1490 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1491 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1495 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1501 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1507 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1508 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1512 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1515 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1519 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1523 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1524 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1525 new version (0.24.1).
1526 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1527 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1530 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1531 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1532 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1533 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1534 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1535 new directory on their own.
1536 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1537 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1541 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1544 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1545 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1546 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1547 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1551 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1554 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1555 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1556 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1557 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1558 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1562 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1568 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1572 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1573 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1577 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1578 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1582 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1584 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1585 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1587 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1588 ignored. Closes: #337664
1590 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1595 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1601 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1606 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1607 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1608 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1609 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1610 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1611 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1612 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1616 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1619 version. Closes: #350607
1620 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1621 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1622 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1623 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1627 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1630 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1631 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1632 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1636 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1643 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1649 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1652 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1656 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1659 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1660 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1661 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1662 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1663 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1664 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1668 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1671 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1672 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1677 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1680 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1684 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1687 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1691 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1694 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1695 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1696 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1697 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1698 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1699 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1703 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1707 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1708 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1709 link. Closes: #346405
1710 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1712 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1713 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1714 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1715 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1716 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1717 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1718 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1722 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1729 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1735 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1738 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1742 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1745 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1750 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1754 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1755 installed. Closes: #342033
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1759 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1762 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1763 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1764 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1769 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1775 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1781 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1785 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1786 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1787 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1791 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1794 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1799 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1806 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1812 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1815 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1816 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1817 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1818 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1819 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1820 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1821 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1823 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1827 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1830 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1831 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1835 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1838 in standard man dirs.
1839 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1849 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1852 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1857 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1864 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1871 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1874 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1875 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1879 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1882 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1883 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1884 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1886 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1888 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1894 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1900 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1903 mode. Closes: #324161
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1907 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1910 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1911 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1912 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1913 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1918 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1921 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1922 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1923 is necesary for sanity.
1924 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1925 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1930 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1932 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1933 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1937 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1940 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1944 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1950 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1953 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1954 released, so use at your own risk.
1955 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1956 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1958 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1959 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1960 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1961 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1962 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1963 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1964 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1965 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1966 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1967 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1968 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1969 including twice per config file line now..
1970 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1971 and simplfy the rules file.
1972 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1973 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1974 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1976 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1977 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1981 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1984 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1988 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1991 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1995 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1998 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2002 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2005 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2006 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2007 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2008 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2009 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2010 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2017 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2018 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2019 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2024 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2027 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2028 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2033 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2036 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2037 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2038 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2043 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2046 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2047 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2048 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2052 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2058 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2065 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2068 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2069 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2070 unknown. Closes: #282924
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2074 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2081 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Spanish man page updates.
2084 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2089 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2095 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2098 * dh_desktop: reindent
2099 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2100 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2104 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2110 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2112 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2116 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2118 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2122 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2125 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2126 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2130 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2136 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2142 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2149 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2152 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2156 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2159 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2160 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2161 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2162 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2163 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2164 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2166 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2167 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2168 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2169 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2170 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2171 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2172 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2173 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2174 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2175 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2176 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2177 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2178 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2179 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2180 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2181 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2185 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2192 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2195 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2199 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2202 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2206 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2209 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2213 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2216 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2220 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2226 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2232 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2238 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2241 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2242 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2243 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2247 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2250 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2254 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2257 but occasionally right and necessary.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2261 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2264 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2265 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2266 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2267 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2268 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2272 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2275 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2277 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2278 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2279 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2280 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2281 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2282 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2283 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2284 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2285 postinst scripts for udebs.
2286 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2290 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2293 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2295 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2296 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2300 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2306 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2313 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2320 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2323 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2327 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2330 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2334 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2337 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2340 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2341 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2345 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2351 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2354 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2358 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2361 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2362 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2363 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2365 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2367 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2368 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2369 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2373 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2376 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2381 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2384 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2385 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2386 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2391 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2397 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2403 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2406 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2407 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2408 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2409 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2410 associated -dbg packages.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2414 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2417 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2421 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2424 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2428 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2431 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2438 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2443 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2446 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2453 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2458 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2461 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2465 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2469 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2470 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2471 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2472 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2473 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2474 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2475 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2476 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2477 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2478 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2482 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2485 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2490 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2493 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2494 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2498 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2501 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2502 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2507 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2510 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2514 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2517 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2521 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2524 out section number. Closes: #204731
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2528 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2535 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2541 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2547 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2550 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2551 removal. Closes: #204286
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2555 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2558 renaming. Closes: #203548
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2562 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2565 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2566 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2570 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2576 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2582 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2588 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2591 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2592 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2593 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2597 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2600 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2601 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2605 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2611 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2618 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2621 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2626 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2629 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2633 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2636 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2638 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2639 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2643 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2646 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2651 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2654 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2658 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2664 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2666 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2670 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2673 it break hard links (see #188663).
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2677 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2680 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2684 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2690 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2694 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2695 debconf-mergetemplates
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2699 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2702 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2706 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2709 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2713 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2716 * Update debhelper(1).
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2720 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2723 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2724 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2725 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2726 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2727 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2731 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2734 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2735 the shell. Closes: #178524
2736 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2740 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2743 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2747 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2750 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2754 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2757 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2758 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2759 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2760 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2765 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2768 files from installation.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2772 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2775 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2776 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2780 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2783 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2787 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2790 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2794 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2800 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2806 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2810 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2811 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2813 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2817 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2820 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2821 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2822 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2823 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2827 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2830 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2834 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2837 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2838 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2842 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2846 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2851 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2857 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2861 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2862 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2863 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2868 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2871 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2872 practice. Closes: #163303
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2876 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2882 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2889 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2892 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2894 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2895 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2896 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2897 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2898 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2902 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2905 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2910 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2916 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2923 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2926 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2931 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2937 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2943 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2949 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2956 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2959 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2960 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2961 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2962 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2967 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2973 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2980 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2983 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2984 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2988 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2991 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2992 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2993 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2994 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2995 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2999 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3002 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3004 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3009 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3012 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3016 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3019 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3020 right thing. Closes: #150644
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3024 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Stupid, evil typo.
3027 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3031 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3038 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3041 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3042 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3047 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3053 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3056 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3060 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3063 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3064 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3069 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3072 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3076 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3082 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3085 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3086 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3090 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3096 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * Removing perl warning message.
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3102 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3105 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3106 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3107 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3108 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3109 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3110 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3111 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3112 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3116 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3122 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3129 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3132 debconf-mergetemplate.
3133 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3134 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3138 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3141 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3142 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3143 dh_install, which ...
3144 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3145 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3146 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3147 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3148 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3149 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3150 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3151 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3152 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3153 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3154 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3155 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3156 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3157 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3158 other minor changes.
3159 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3160 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3161 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3162 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3163 course there's -X ..)
3164 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3165 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3166 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3168 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3169 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3170 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3171 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3172 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3177 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3183 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3186 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3190 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3196 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3202 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3208 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3214 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3217 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3218 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3219 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3220 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3222 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3223 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3227 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3233 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3236 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3240 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3243 upset. Closes: #131322
3245 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3247 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3250 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3251 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3252 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3253 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3254 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3255 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3256 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3257 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3258 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3259 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3260 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3261 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3262 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3263 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3264 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3266 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3270 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3273 - Better indenting of generated code.
3274 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3278 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3282 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3283 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3284 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3285 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3286 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3287 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3288 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3292 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3295 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3299 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3302 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3303 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3304 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3305 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3306 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3307 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3308 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3309 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3310 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3311 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3312 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3313 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3314 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3315 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3316 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3321 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3327 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3330 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3331 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3335 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3338 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3339 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3343 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3349 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3352 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3353 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3354 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3355 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3356 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3361 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3367 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3370 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3374 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3377 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3382 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3388 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3391 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3395 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3401 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3405 Also some indentation fixes.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3409 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3412 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3413 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3414 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3415 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3416 Closes: #106514, #85520
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3420 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3426 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3432 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3438 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3444 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3450 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3453 change it in debhelper v4..
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3457 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3463 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3466 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3470 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3473 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3477 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3483 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3486 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3487 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3488 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3489 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3490 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3491 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3492 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3493 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3494 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3495 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3496 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3497 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3501 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3504 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3508 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3515 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3518 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3519 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3520 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3521 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3522 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3523 program those options go to. So, for example,
3524 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3525 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3526 something complex. Closes: #89311
3527 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3531 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3534 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3535 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3536 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3540 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3543 through loop. Closes: #98598
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3547 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Missing semi-colon.
3550 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3551 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3555 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3558 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3559 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3560 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3564 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3567 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3568 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3572 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3575 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3579 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3582 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3583 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3587 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3590 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3591 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3592 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3596 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3599 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3600 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3601 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3605 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3608 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3612 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3618 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3624 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3630 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3636 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3639 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3643 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3646 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3647 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3648 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3649 followed. Closes: #85483
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3653 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3655 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3656 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3657 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3661 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3664 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3665 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3666 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3667 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3668 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3669 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3670 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3671 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3672 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3673 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3674 Closes: #88464, #77743
3675 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3676 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3677 us to deal with that gracefully.
3678 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3680 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3681 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3682 a while, Closes: #51225
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3686 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3692 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3695 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3699 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3703 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3708 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3711 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3712 don't make packlist files.
3713 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3714 debhelper coding standards.
3715 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3716 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3720 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3723 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3727 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3730 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3731 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3732 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3733 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3734 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3735 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3736 but is mildly deprecated.
3737 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3738 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3739 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3740 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3741 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3742 switching to statoverrides..
3743 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3744 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3745 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3746 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3747 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3748 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3750 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3751 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3752 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3753 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3754 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3755 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3756 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3757 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3758 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3760 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3761 variable names, pod man pages).
3762 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3763 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3764 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3765 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3766 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3767 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3768 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3772 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3778 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3785 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3788 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3792 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3794 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3795 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3796 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3800 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3802 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3803 they were previously ignored.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3807 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3809 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3810 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3814 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3816 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3817 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3818 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3822 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3824 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3828 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3830 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3831 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3835 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3837 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3838 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3839 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3840 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3841 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3842 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3843 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3844 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3845 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3846 it is an obsolete program.
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3850 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3852 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3856 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3860 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3862 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3866 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3868 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3870 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3872 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3876 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3882 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * typo: Closes, #78567
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3888 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3894 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3900 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3903 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3904 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3905 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3906 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3907 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3911 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3914 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3919 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3922 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3923 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3924 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3925 backwards-compatibility.
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3929 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3932 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3933 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3934 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3935 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3936 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3937 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3939 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3940 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3941 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3943 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3945 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3946 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3947 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3948 should now be raised to severity important..
3949 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3950 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3954 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3957 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3962 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3968 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3974 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3980 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3987 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3990 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3991 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3992 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3993 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3997 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4003 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4006 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4007 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4008 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4009 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4010 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4011 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4016 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4019 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4023 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4029 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4032 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4037 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4040 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4041 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4042 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4043 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4047 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4051 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4054 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4057 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4058 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4061 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4063 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4064 the TODO entry about it.
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4068 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4075 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4078 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4079 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4083 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4086 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4087 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4088 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4089 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4093 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4099 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4106 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4109 (this appears to be logal).
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4113 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4116 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4117 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4118 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4119 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4123 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4129 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4132 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4133 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4134 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4135 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4139 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4145 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4148 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4152 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4159 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4162 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4163 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4164 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4169 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4176 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4182 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4185 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4186 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4187 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4188 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4189 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4190 notice until v2 is complete.
4191 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4192 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4193 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4194 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4195 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4196 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4198 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4199 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4200 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4201 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4205 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4211 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4218 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4221 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4235 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4236 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4237 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4238 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4243 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4246 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4247 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4248 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4253 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4256 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4257 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4264 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4268 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4271 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4275 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4282 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4285 depend on the build and install targets.
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4289 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4292 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4296 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4309 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4315 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4318 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4319 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4320 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4321 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4322 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4323 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4325 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4326 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4327 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4328 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4329 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4330 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4331 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4335 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4341 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4347 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4350 right place. Closes: #55065
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4354 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4361 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4364 * Copyright date updates.
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4368 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4371 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4376 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4382 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4389 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4395 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4401 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4407 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4410 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4411 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4412 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4413 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4414 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4415 bits until all files have been registered.
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4419 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * dh_installmanpages:
4422 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4423 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4424 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4425 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4426 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4427 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4428 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4429 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4430 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4431 otherwise change the result at all.
4433 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4434 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4435 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4436 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4437 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4442 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4448 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4451 act on files that don't exist.
4452 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4453 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4454 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4456 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4457 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4458 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4459 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4463 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4469 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4475 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4478 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4482 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4485 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4487 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4488 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4489 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4493 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4496 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4497 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4498 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4499 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4500 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4501 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4502 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4504 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4506 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4510 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4517 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4523 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4529 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4532 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4536 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4542 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4548 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4551 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4552 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4553 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4554 I made some changes, though:
4555 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4556 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4557 that is a clear violation of policy.
4558 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4559 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4560 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4561 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4562 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4563 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4564 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4565 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4566 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4568 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4572 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4578 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4581 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4585 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4588 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4589 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4594 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4600 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4607 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4610 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4611 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4612 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4613 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4614 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4615 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4616 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4620 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4626 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4630 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4631 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4635 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4641 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4644 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4648 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4650 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4651 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4652 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4656 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4658 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4663 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4667 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4671 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4673 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4674 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4675 for the dependancies to be generated.
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4679 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4682 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4686 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4689 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4690 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4691 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4696 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4699 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4700 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4710 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4716 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4719 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4723 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4729 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4732 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4733 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4734 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4735 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4736 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4737 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4738 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4739 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4740 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4741 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4742 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4743 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4747 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4750 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4751 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4753 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4754 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4755 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4756 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4757 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4758 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4760 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4761 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4765 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4768 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4772 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4779 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4782 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4787 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4790 for building debhelper.
4791 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4795 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4802 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4805 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4809 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4812 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4813 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4814 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4815 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4816 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4817 it's always available.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4821 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4824 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4825 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4826 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4830 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4833 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4834 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4838 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4844 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4847 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4851 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4857 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4860 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4861 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4862 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4866 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4869 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4874 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4877 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4878 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4880 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4881 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4885 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4891 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4897 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4900 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4904 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4907 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4908 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4910 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4914 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4917 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4918 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4919 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4923 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4926 things if CDPATH is set.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4930 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4936 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4939 seems to make sense for the transition.
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4943 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4946 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4951 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4954 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4955 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4959 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4961 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4962 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4966 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4968 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4969 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4970 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4971 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4972 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4976 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4982 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4985 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4986 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4987 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4988 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4989 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4990 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4991 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4992 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4993 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4994 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4999 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5001 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5002 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5003 * README: mention doc/v2
5004 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5005 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5009 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5011 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5012 be using this script RSN.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5016 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5019 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5020 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5021 more than 1 init script.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5025 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5028 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5032 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * Changed perl version detection.
5035 * Changed call to find.
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5039 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5042 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5044 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5049 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5051 * Really include dh_installpam.
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5055 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5058 * Wrote man page for same.
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5062 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5065 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5066 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5071 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5078 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5081 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5082 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5083 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5084 x bit was being set!
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5088 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5091 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5092 well. (Closes: 38900)
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5096 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5099 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5100 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5104 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5110 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5117 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5123 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5126 help from Julian Gilbey.
5127 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5128 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5129 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5130 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5131 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5132 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5133 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5138 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5144 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5151 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5157 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5163 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5166 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5170 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5173 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5177 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5180 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5184 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5190 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5193 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5197 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5203 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5209 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5212 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5213 may be deleted. (#35845)
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5217 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * Various man page enhancements.
5220 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5225 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5228 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5229 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5233 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5236 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5237 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5238 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5240 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5241 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5246 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5248 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5252 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * Another very minor typo fix.
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5258 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * Very minor typo fix.
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5264 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5267 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5268 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5272 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5278 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5281 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5282 variables properly (#34850).
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5286 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5292 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5295 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5296 (automatically generated by build process).
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5300 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5302 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5306 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5309 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5310 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5312 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5316 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5319 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5323 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * README: minor typo fix.
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5329 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5332 leave it at that. :-)
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5336 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5342 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5348 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5351 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5352 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5353 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5357 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5360 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5364 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5367 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5371 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5374 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5375 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5376 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5377 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5381 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5384 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5385 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5386 Craig Small for spotting this.
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5390 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5393 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5394 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5398 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5404 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5407 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5411 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5413 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5414 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5415 working on the last version of debhelper.
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5419 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5421 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5422 being made. (#23255)
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5426 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5428 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5432 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5434 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5435 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5439 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5442 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5443 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5444 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5445 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5449 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5452 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5453 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5454 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5455 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5457 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5458 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5460 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5465 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5471 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5477 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5480 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5481 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5482 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5483 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5484 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5485 suidregister actually supports it.
5486 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5487 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5491 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5498 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5500 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5501 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5502 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5503 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5504 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5505 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5506 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5507 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5511 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5513 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5514 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5518 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5520 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5521 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5522 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5523 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5524 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5528 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5531 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5533 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5534 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5535 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5536 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5537 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5538 effect, either. (#30118)
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5542 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5548 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5550 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5551 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5552 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5556 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5562 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5565 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5566 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5567 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5568 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5572 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5575 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5576 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5580 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5586 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5589 packages, painlessly.
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5593 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5599 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5605 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5611 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * The perl conversion is complete.
5615 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5617 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5618 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5619 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5624 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5627 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5628 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5629 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5633 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5636 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5638 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5640 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5641 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5645 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5648 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5649 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5653 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5655 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5659 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5661 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5662 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5663 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5664 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5665 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5666 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5670 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5673 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5674 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5675 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5676 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5680 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5683 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5687 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5689 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5690 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5691 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5692 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5693 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5694 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5695 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5696 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5697 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5701 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5707 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5710 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5711 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5712 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5717 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5719 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5720 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5724 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5727 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5731 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5734 sections of shared libraries.
5735 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5736 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5737 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5738 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5739 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5740 things you don't want them to.
5741 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5742 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5746 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5749 shared libraries. (#26414)
5751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5753 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5755 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5756 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5757 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5758 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5762 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5764 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5766 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5768 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5769 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5770 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5771 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5772 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5776 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5779 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5783 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5786 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5787 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5792 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5795 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5799 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5802 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5803 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5804 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5805 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5806 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5808 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5809 remove debian/files properly.
5810 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5811 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5812 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5813 * Removed bogus menu file.
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5817 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5820 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5824 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5826 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5827 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5828 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5829 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5830 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5831 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5832 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5836 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5839 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5840 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5841 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5842 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5846 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5848 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5853 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5855 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5856 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5857 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5859 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5860 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5861 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5862 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5863 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5864 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5868 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5870 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5871 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5872 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5873 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5874 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5875 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5876 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5877 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5878 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5879 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5880 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5881 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5882 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5883 passed any switches.
5884 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5888 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5891 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5892 at all for a long while.
5893 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5894 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5895 large chunks in the process.
5896 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5897 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5898 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5903 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5905 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5906 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5908 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5913 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5916 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5917 that don't always have the same files in them.
5918 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5919 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5920 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5924 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5926 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5928 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5929 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5930 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5931 updating 27 man pages.
5932 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5933 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5934 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5935 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5936 programs act on. (#25247)
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5940 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5944 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5945 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5946 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5947 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5948 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5949 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5954 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5956 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5961 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5968 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5971 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5975 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5981 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5983 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5984 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5985 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5986 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5987 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5988 package by accident.
5989 * Is version 1.0 next?
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5993 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5996 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5997 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6001 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6003 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6004 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6005 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6006 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6007 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6008 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6010 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6015 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6018 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6019 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6023 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6026 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6030 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6032 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6033 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6034 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6039 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6045 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6048 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6049 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6054 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6060 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6062 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6063 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6064 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6065 past week. Thanks, guys!
6067 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6068 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6069 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6070 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6071 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6072 would do in the same situation.
6073 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6074 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6076 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6078 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6079 permissions changed.
6080 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6081 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6082 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6083 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6084 files are treated identically.
6085 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6086 * Minor man page fixes.
6087 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6088 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6089 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6093 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6096 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6097 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6098 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6099 use -X multiple times, too.
6100 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6101 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6105 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6107 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6108 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6109 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6113 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6116 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6120 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6122 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6123 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6124 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6125 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6126 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6127 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6128 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6129 shape if you're starting a new package.
6131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6133 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6135 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6136 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6140 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6143 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6144 because of missing symlinks.
6146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6148 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6150 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6154 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6156 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6157 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6158 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6159 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6160 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6161 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6163 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6164 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6168 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6170 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6171 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6172 to be changed after the fact :-)
6173 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6177 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6179 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6180 no version string after the -V.
6182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6184 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6186 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6187 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6192 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6194 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6195 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6199 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6201 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6202 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6203 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6204 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6205 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6206 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6207 I always welcome corrections!
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6211 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6217 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6220 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6221 * Documented this new switch.
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6225 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6228 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6229 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6230 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6231 no packages use the old behavior.
6233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6235 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6237 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6238 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6239 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6243 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6245 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6246 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6250 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6252 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6256 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6258 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6259 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6263 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6265 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6266 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6267 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6268 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6272 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6274 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6278 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6280 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6281 into the source package by accident.
6283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6285 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6287 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6288 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6289 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6290 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6291 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6292 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6293 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6298 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6300 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6302 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6303 inspired to implement some of it.
6304 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6308 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6310 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6311 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6315 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6318 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6319 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6323 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6326 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6327 have done.) (#17598)
6329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6331 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6333 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6337 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6339 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6343 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6345 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6346 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6350 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6352 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6353 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6354 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6358 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6360 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6361 argument processor in perl.
6362 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6363 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6364 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6365 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6369 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6371 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6372 type directories. (#16933)
6373 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6374 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6375 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6376 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6377 are supported. (#16935)
6378 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6383 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6385 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6386 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6390 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6392 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6394 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6395 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6396 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6397 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6398 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6399 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6403 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6405 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6406 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6407 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6409 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6410 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6411 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6412 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6413 a given package, or -i or -a.
6414 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6415 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6416 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6417 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6418 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6419 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6420 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6421 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6422 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6424 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6425 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6426 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6430 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6432 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6433 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6434 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6439 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6441 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6442 does not have a section.
6444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6446 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6448 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6449 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6450 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6451 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6455 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * Fixed typo #16215.
6459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6461 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6463 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6464 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6465 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6466 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6467 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6468 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6473 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6475 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6476 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6477 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6478 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6483 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6485 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6489 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6491 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6495 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6497 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6498 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6499 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6500 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6501 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6502 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6503 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6507 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6509 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6513 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6515 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6516 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6520 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6522 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6523 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6524 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6525 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6529 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6531 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6532 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6536 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6538 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6542 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6544 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6545 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6549 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6551 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6552 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6556 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6558 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6562 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6564 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6565 postinst, postrm, etc.
6567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6569 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6571 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6575 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6577 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6578 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6579 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6580 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6581 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6582 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6586 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6588 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6589 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6590 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6594 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6596 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6597 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6601 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6603 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6604 installing package files into.
6605 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6610 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6612 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6614 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6618 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6620 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6624 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6626 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6627 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6631 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6633 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6634 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6635 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6636 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6637 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6641 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6643 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6644 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6645 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6646 multiple binary packages.
6647 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6648 should rebuild them with this version.
6649 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6653 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6655 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6656 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6660 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6662 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6663 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6667 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6669 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6670 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6671 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6672 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6673 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6674 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6675 debian/README.debian.
6676 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6677 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6678 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6679 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6680 in a few situations.)
6682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6684 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6686 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6690 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6692 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6696 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6698 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6699 * Fixed several man pages.
6701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6703 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6705 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6706 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6707 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6711 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6713 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6714 is ready for general use.
6715 * Added man pages for all commands.
6716 * Multiple binary package support.
6717 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6718 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6719 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6721 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6722 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6723 auto-installed as parameters.
6724 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6726 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6729 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6730 the package build directory it is to act on.
6731 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6732 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6733 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6737 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6739 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6740 ready to replace debstd.
6742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400