1 debhelper (7.3.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons.
7 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
9 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:00:24 +0100
11 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
14 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
15 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
16 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
17 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
18 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
23 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
25 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
26 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
27 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
31 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
33 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
37 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
39 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
40 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
42 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
43 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
44 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
48 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
50 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
51 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
55 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
61 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
63 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
64 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
65 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
70 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
72 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
76 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
79 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
80 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
81 created by using `python' first during build and install.
83 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
88 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
90 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
94 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
96 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
97 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
101 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
103 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
107 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
109 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
113 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
115 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
116 contributed by Modestas Vainius
117 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
118 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
119 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
120 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
121 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
122 that support it. Closes: #480577
123 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
124 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
125 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
127 - Adds support for cmake.
128 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
129 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
131 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
133 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
134 that use them. The options are:
135 --sourcedir, --destdir
136 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
137 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
138 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
139 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
140 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
144 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
150 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
153 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
154 default. Closes: #537140
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
158 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
160 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
161 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
162 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
166 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
169 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
173 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
175 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
176 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
180 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
183 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
185 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
186 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
187 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
191 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
193 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
194 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
195 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
196 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
200 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
203 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
204 warning or deprecation message.
205 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
206 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
207 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
208 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
209 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
210 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
211 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
212 Closes: #534639, #357434
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
216 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
218 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
222 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
225 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
226 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
227 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
228 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
230 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
231 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
232 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
236 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
242 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
249 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
252 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
256 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
260 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
261 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
263 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
264 file support. Closes: #494914
265 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
269 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
272 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
273 parameters. Closes: #527256
274 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
275 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
276 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
280 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
284 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
285 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
286 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
290 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
293 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
294 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
295 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
299 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
302 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
303 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
305 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
306 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
307 by triggers). Closes: #521181
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
311 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
315 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
319 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
322 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
323 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
324 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
325 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
330 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
336 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
339 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
340 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
341 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
342 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
343 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
345 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
346 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
347 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
348 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
349 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
350 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
354 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
357 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
358 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
359 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
360 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
361 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
363 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
367 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
369 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
373 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
375 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
376 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
377 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
378 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
379 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
380 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
381 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
382 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
383 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
384 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
385 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
389 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
391 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
392 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
394 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
395 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
396 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
397 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
399 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
400 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
404 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
406 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
407 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
408 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
409 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
410 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
411 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
412 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
414 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
415 that uses them. Affected options are:
416 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
417 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
418 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
419 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
420 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
421 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
422 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
423 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
424 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
425 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
426 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
427 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
431 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
438 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
444 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
446 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
447 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
449 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
450 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
451 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
452 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
453 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
455 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
457 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
458 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
459 rules (see bug #509756).
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
463 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
469 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
470 * Typo. Closes: #493062
471 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
472 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
476 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
478 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
479 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
480 empty files. Closes: #490937
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
484 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
490 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
497 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
500 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
501 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
502 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
503 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
508 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
510 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
511 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
512 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
513 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
517 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
520 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
521 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
522 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
523 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
524 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
528 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
535 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
537 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
538 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
539 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
540 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
541 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
542 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
543 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
544 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
545 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
546 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
550 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
553 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
554 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
555 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
556 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
558 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
559 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
560 breaking backwards compatability.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
564 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
567 message in perl 5.10.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
571 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
577 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Convert copyright file to new format.
580 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
584 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
587 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
591 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
594 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
595 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
596 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
597 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
598 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
599 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
600 logging by dh_listpackages.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
604 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
607 run and there are no packages of that type.
608 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
609 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
610 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
611 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
613 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
614 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
618 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
620 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
621 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
622 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
626 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
629 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
630 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
632 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
633 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
634 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
635 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
636 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
637 planned but not yet implemented.)
638 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
639 if the Makefile has such a target.
640 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
641 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
642 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
643 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
644 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
645 but not yet implemented.)
646 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
647 recommended default, especially when using dh.
648 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
649 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
650 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
652 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
654 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
655 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
657 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
658 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
659 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
664 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
667 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
668 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
672 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
674 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
675 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
676 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
680 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
686 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
692 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
695 just those installed by the program.
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
699 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
702 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
703 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
707 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
710 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
711 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
712 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
713 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
717 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
720 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
721 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
725 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
728 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
729 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
733 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
736 with policy. Closes: #461392
737 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
738 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
739 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
740 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
741 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
745 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
748 Closes: #460340, #460351
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
752 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
755 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
756 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
757 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
758 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
762 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
765 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
766 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
767 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
768 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
769 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
770 package build directory won't work.
771 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
772 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
773 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
774 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
775 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
776 mode. Closes: #459426
777 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
782 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
784 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
785 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
789 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
793 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
794 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
795 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
796 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
797 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
798 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
802 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
804 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
805 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
806 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
807 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
808 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
812 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
814 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
815 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
816 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
817 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
818 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
819 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
823 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
826 debian/package.triggers files.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
830 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
833 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
837 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
840 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
841 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
842 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
843 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
848 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
851 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
855 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
858 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
859 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
861 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
866 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
870 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
871 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
872 * Typo. Closes: #441272
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
876 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
883 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
890 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
893 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
895 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
896 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
897 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
899 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
900 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
901 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
905 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
908 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
909 * Update urls to web page.
910 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
912 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
913 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
917 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
920 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
921 - typo in alternatives call
922 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
924 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
925 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
929 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
932 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
937 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
943 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
949 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
952 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
954 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
955 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
956 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
957 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
958 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
959 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
960 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
961 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
962 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
963 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
964 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
968 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
971 package install. Closes: #415717
972 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
973 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
974 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
975 script and then remove the python files.
976 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
977 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
978 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
979 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
980 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
981 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
982 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
983 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
984 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
985 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
986 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
987 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
988 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
992 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Correct typo in french translation
998 * Typo. Closes: #400571
999 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1001 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1003 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1004 Closes: #406921, #381940
1005 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1007 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1008 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1009 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1010 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1011 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1012 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1013 specified). Closes: #381851
1014 * Misc minor changes.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1018 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1025 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1026 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1030 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1036 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1037 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1040 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1041 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1043 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1044 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1045 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1046 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1050 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1053 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1056 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1060 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1066 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1072 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1073 a difficult situation.
1074 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1075 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1076 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1077 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1078 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1079 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1080 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1081 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1082 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1083 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1087 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Non-maintainer upload.
1090 * Update of dh_python
1091 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1092 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1094 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1095 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1096 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1097 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1098 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1100 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1102 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Non-maintainer upload.
1105 * Update of dh_python
1106 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1107 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1108 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1109 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1110 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1111 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1112 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1113 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1114 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1115 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1117 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1118 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1119 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1120 the not too-distant future).
1121 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1122 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1123 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1124 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1125 thus made the build fail.
1127 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1129 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Non-maintainer upload.
1132 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1134 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1136 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1139 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1140 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1141 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1142 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1143 package. Closes: #301424
1144 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1145 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1146 fonts). Closes: #372686
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1150 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1156 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1157 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1158 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1159 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1160 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1161 above, but already depends on that.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1165 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1168 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1169 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1170 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1171 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1172 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1176 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1182 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1188 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1189 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1193 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1196 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1200 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1204 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1205 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1206 new version (0.24.1).
1207 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1208 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1211 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1212 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1213 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1214 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1215 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1216 new directory on their own.
1217 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1218 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1222 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1225 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1226 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1227 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1228 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1232 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1235 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1236 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1237 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1238 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1239 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1243 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1249 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1253 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1254 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1258 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1259 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1263 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1265 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1266 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1268 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1269 ignored. Closes: #337664
1271 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1276 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1282 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1287 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1288 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1289 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1290 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1291 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1292 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1293 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1297 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1300 version. Closes: #350607
1301 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1302 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1303 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1304 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1308 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1311 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1312 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1313 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1317 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1324 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1330 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1333 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1337 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1340 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1341 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1342 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1343 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1344 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1345 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1349 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1352 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1353 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1358 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1361 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1365 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1368 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1372 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1375 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1376 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1377 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1378 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1379 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1380 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1384 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1388 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1389 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1390 link. Closes: #346405
1391 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1393 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1394 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1395 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1396 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1397 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1398 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1399 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1403 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1410 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1416 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1419 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1423 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1426 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1431 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1435 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1436 installed. Closes: #342033
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1440 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1443 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1444 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1445 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1450 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1456 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1462 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1466 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1467 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1468 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1472 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1475 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1480 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1487 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1493 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1496 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1497 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1498 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1499 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1500 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1501 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1502 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1504 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1508 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1511 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1512 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1516 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1519 in standard man dirs.
1520 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1524 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1530 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1533 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1538 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1545 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1552 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1555 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1556 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1560 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1563 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1564 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1565 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1567 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1569 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1575 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1581 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1584 mode. Closes: #324161
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1588 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1591 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1592 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1593 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1594 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1599 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1602 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1603 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1604 is necesary for sanity.
1605 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1606 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1611 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1613 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1614 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1618 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1621 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1625 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1631 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1634 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1635 released, so use at your own risk.
1636 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1637 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1639 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1640 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1641 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1642 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1643 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1644 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1645 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1646 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1647 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1648 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1649 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1650 including twice per config file line now..
1651 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1652 and simplfy the rules file.
1653 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1654 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1655 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1657 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1658 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1662 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1665 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1669 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1672 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1676 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1679 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1683 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1686 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1687 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1688 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1689 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1690 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1691 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1695 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1698 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1699 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1700 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1705 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1708 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1709 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1714 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1717 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1718 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1719 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1724 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1727 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1728 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1729 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1733 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1739 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1746 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1749 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1750 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1751 unknown. Closes: #282924
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1755 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1762 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Spanish man page updates.
1765 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1770 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1776 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1779 * dh_desktop: reindent
1780 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1781 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1785 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1791 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1793 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1797 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1799 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1803 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1806 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1807 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1811 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1817 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1823 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1830 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1833 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1837 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1840 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1841 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1842 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1843 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1844 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1845 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1847 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1848 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1849 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1850 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1851 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1852 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1853 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1854 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1855 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1856 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1857 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1858 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1859 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1860 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1861 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1862 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1866 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1873 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1876 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1880 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1883 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1887 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1890 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1894 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1897 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1901 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1907 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1913 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1919 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1922 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1923 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1924 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1928 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1931 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1935 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1938 but occasionally right and necessary.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1942 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1945 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1946 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1947 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1948 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1949 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1953 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1956 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1958 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1959 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1960 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1961 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1962 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1963 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1964 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1965 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1966 postinst scripts for udebs.
1967 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1971 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1974 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1976 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1977 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1981 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1987 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1994 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2001 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2004 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2008 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2011 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2015 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2018 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2021 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2022 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2026 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2032 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2035 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2039 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2042 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2043 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2044 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2046 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2048 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2049 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2050 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2054 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2057 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2062 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2065 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2066 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2067 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2072 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2078 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2084 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2087 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2088 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2089 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2090 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2091 associated -dbg packages.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2095 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2098 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2102 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2105 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2109 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2112 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2116 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2119 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2124 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2127 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2131 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2134 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2139 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2142 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2146 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2150 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2151 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2152 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2153 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2154 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2155 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2156 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2157 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2158 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2159 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2163 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2166 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2171 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2174 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2175 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2179 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2182 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2183 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2188 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2191 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2195 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2198 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2202 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2205 out section number. Closes: #204731
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2209 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2216 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2222 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2228 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2231 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2232 removal. Closes: #204286
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2236 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2239 renaming. Closes: #203548
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2243 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2246 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2247 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2251 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2257 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2263 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2269 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2272 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2273 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2274 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2278 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2281 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2282 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2286 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2292 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2299 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2302 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2307 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2310 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2317 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2319 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2320 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2324 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2327 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2332 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2335 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2339 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2345 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2347 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2351 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2354 it break hard links (see #188663).
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2358 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2361 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2365 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2371 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2375 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2376 debconf-mergetemplates
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2380 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2383 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2387 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2390 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2394 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2397 * Update debhelper(1).
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2401 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2404 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2405 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2406 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2407 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2408 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2412 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2415 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2416 the shell. Closes: #178524
2417 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2421 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2424 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2428 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2431 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2435 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2438 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2439 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2440 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2441 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2446 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2449 files from installation.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2453 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2456 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2457 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2461 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2464 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2468 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2471 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2475 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2481 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2487 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2491 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2492 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2494 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2498 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2501 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2502 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2503 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2504 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2508 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2511 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2515 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2518 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2519 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2523 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2527 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2532 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2538 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2542 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2543 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2544 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2549 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2552 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2553 practice. Closes: #163303
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2557 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2563 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2570 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2573 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2575 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2576 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2577 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2578 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2579 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2583 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2586 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2591 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2597 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2604 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2607 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2612 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2618 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2624 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2630 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2637 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2640 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2641 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2642 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2643 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2648 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2654 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2661 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2664 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2665 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2669 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2672 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2673 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2674 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2675 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2676 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2680 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2683 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2685 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2690 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2693 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2697 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2700 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2701 right thing. Closes: #150644
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2705 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Stupid, evil typo.
2708 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2712 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2719 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2722 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2723 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2728 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2734 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2737 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2741 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2744 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2745 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2750 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2753 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2757 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2763 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2766 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2767 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2771 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2777 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Removing perl warning message.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2783 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2786 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2787 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2788 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2789 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2790 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2791 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2792 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2793 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2797 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2803 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2810 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2813 debconf-mergetemplate.
2814 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2815 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2819 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2822 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2823 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2824 dh_install, which ...
2825 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2826 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2827 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2828 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2829 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2830 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2831 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2832 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2833 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2834 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2835 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2836 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2837 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2838 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2839 other minor changes.
2840 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2841 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2842 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2843 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2844 course there's -X ..)
2845 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2846 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2847 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2849 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2850 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2851 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2852 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2853 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2858 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2864 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2867 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2871 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2877 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2883 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2889 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2895 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2898 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2899 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2900 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2901 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2903 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2904 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2908 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2914 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2917 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2921 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2924 upset. Closes: #131322
2926 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2928 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2931 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2932 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2933 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2934 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2935 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2936 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2937 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2938 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2939 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2940 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2941 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2942 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2943 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2944 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2945 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2947 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2951 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2954 - Better indenting of generated code.
2955 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2959 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2963 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2964 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2965 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2966 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2967 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2968 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2969 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2973 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2976 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2980 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2983 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2984 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2985 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2986 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2987 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2988 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2989 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2990 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2991 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2992 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2993 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2994 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2995 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2996 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2997 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3002 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3008 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3011 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3012 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3016 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3019 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3020 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3024 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3030 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3033 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3034 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3035 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3036 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3037 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3042 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3048 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3051 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3055 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3058 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3063 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3069 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3072 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3076 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3082 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3086 Also some indentation fixes.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3090 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3093 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3094 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3095 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3096 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3097 Closes: #106514, #85520
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3101 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3107 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3113 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3119 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3125 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3131 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3134 change it in debhelper v4..
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3138 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3144 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3147 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3151 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3154 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3158 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3164 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3167 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3168 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3169 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3170 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3171 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3172 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3173 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3174 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3175 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3176 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3177 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3178 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3182 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3185 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3189 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3196 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3199 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3200 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3201 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3202 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3203 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3204 program those options go to. So, for example,
3205 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3206 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3207 something complex. Closes: #89311
3208 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3212 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3215 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3216 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3217 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3221 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3224 through loop. Closes: #98598
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3228 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Missing semi-colon.
3231 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3232 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3236 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3239 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3240 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3241 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3245 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3248 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3249 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3253 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3256 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3260 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3263 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3264 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3268 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3271 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3272 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3273 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3277 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3280 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3281 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3282 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3286 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3289 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3293 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3299 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3305 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3311 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3317 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3320 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3324 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3327 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3328 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3329 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3330 followed. Closes: #85483
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3334 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3336 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3337 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3338 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3342 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3345 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3346 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3347 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3348 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3349 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3350 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3351 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3352 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3353 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3354 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3355 Closes: #88464, #77743
3356 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3357 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3358 us to deal with that gracefully.
3359 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3361 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3362 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3363 a while, Closes: #51225
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3367 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3373 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3376 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3380 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3384 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3389 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3392 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3393 don't make packlist files.
3394 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3395 debhelper coding standards.
3396 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3397 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3401 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3404 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3408 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3411 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3412 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3413 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3414 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3415 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3416 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3417 but is mildly deprecated.
3418 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3419 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3420 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3421 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3422 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3423 switching to statoverrides..
3424 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3425 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3426 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3427 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3428 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3429 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3431 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3432 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3433 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3434 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3435 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3436 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3437 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3438 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3439 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3441 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3442 variable names, pod man pages).
3443 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3444 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3445 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3446 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3447 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3448 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3449 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3453 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3459 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3466 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3469 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3473 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3475 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3476 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3477 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3481 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3483 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3484 they were previously ignored.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3488 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3490 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3491 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3495 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3497 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3498 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3499 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3503 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3505 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3509 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3511 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3512 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3516 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3518 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3519 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3520 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3521 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3522 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3523 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3524 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3525 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3526 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3527 it is an obsolete program.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3531 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3533 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3537 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3541 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3543 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3547 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3549 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3551 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3553 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3557 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3563 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * typo: Closes, #78567
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3569 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3575 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3581 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3584 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3585 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3586 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3587 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3588 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3592 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3595 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3600 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3603 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3604 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3605 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3606 backwards-compatability.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3610 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3613 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3614 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3615 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3616 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3617 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3618 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3620 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3621 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3622 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3624 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3626 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3627 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3628 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3629 should now be raised to severity important..
3630 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3631 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3635 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3638 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3643 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3649 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3655 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3661 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3668 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3671 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3672 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3673 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3674 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3678 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3684 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3687 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3688 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3689 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3690 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3691 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3692 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3697 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3700 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3704 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3710 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3713 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3718 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3721 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3722 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3723 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3724 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3728 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3732 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3735 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3738 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3739 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3742 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3744 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3745 the TODO entry about it.
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3749 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3756 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3759 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3760 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3764 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3767 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3768 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3769 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3770 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3774 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3780 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3787 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3790 (this appears to be logal).
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3794 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3797 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3798 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3799 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3800 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3804 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3810 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3813 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3814 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3815 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3816 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3820 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3826 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3829 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3833 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3840 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3843 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3844 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3845 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3850 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3857 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3863 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3866 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3867 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3868 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3869 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3870 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3871 notice until v2 is complete.
3872 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3873 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3874 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3875 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3876 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3877 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3879 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3880 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3881 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3882 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3886 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3892 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3899 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3902 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3906 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3913 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3916 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3917 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3918 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3919 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3924 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3927 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3928 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3929 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3934 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3937 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3938 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3942 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3945 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3949 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3952 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3956 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3963 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3966 depend on the build and install targets.
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3970 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3973 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3977 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3984 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3990 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3996 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3999 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4000 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4001 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4002 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4003 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4004 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4006 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4007 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4008 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4009 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4010 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4011 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4012 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4016 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4022 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4028 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4031 right place. Closes: #55065
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4035 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4042 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4045 * Copyright date updates.
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4049 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4052 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4057 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4063 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4070 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4076 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4082 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4088 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4091 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4092 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4093 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4094 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4095 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4096 bits until all files have been registered.
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4100 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * dh_installmanpages:
4103 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4104 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4105 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4106 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4107 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4108 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4109 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4110 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4111 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4112 otherwise change the result at all.
4114 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4115 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4116 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4117 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4118 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4123 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4129 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4132 act on files that don't exist.
4133 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4134 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4135 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4137 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4138 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4139 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4140 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4144 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4150 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4156 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4159 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4163 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4166 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4168 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4169 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4170 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4174 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4177 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4178 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4179 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4180 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4181 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4182 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4183 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4185 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4187 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4191 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4198 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4204 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4210 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4213 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4217 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4223 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4232 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4233 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4234 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4235 I made some changes, though:
4236 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4237 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4238 that is a clear violation of policy.
4239 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4240 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4241 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4242 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4243 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4244 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4245 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4246 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4247 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4249 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4253 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4259 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4261 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4262 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4266 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4269 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4270 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4275 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4281 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4288 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4291 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4292 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4293 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4294 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4295 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4296 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4297 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4301 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4307 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4311 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4312 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4316 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4322 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4325 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4329 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4332 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4333 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4339 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4344 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4348 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4352 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4355 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4356 for the dependancies to be generated.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4360 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4363 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4367 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4370 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4371 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4372 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4377 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4380 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4381 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4385 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4391 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4397 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4400 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4404 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4410 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4413 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4414 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4415 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4416 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4417 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4418 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4419 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4420 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4421 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4422 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4423 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4424 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4428 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4431 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4432 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4434 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4435 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4436 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4437 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4438 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4439 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4441 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4442 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4446 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4449 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4453 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4460 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4463 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4468 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4471 for building debhelper.
4472 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4476 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4483 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4486 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4490 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4493 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4494 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4495 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4496 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4497 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4498 it's always available.
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4502 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4505 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4506 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4507 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4511 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4514 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4515 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4519 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4525 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4528 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4532 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4538 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4541 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4542 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4543 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4547 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4550 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4555 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4558 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4559 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4561 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4562 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4566 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4572 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4578 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4581 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4585 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4588 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4589 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4591 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4595 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4598 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4599 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4600 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4607 things if CDPATH is set.
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4611 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4617 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4620 seems to make sense for the transition.
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4624 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4627 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4632 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4635 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4636 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4640 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4643 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4647 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4650 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4651 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4652 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4653 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4657 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4663 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4666 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4667 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4668 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4669 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4670 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4671 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4672 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4673 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4674 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4675 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4680 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4683 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4684 * README: mention doc/v2
4685 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4686 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4690 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4692 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4693 be using this script RSN.
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4697 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4700 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4701 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4702 more than 1 init script.
4704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4706 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4708 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4709 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4713 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * Changed perl version detection.
4716 * Changed call to find.
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4720 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4723 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4725 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4730 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * Really include dh_installpam.
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4736 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4739 * Wrote man page for same.
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4743 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4746 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4747 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4752 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4759 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4762 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4763 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4764 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4765 x bit was being set!
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4769 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4772 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4773 well. (Closes: 38900)
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4777 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4780 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4781 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4785 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4791 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4798 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4804 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4807 help from Julian Gilbey.
4808 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4809 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4810 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4811 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4812 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4813 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4814 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4819 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4825 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4832 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4838 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4844 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4847 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4851 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4854 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4858 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4861 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4865 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4871 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4874 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4878 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4884 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4890 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4893 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4894 may be deleted. (#35845)
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4898 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * Various man page enhancements.
4901 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4906 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4909 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4910 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4914 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4917 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4918 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4919 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4921 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4922 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4927 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4933 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * Another very minor typo fix.
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4939 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * Very minor typo fix.
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4945 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4948 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4949 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4953 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4959 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4961 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4962 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4963 variables properly (#34850).
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4967 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4973 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4975 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4976 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4977 (automatically generated by build process).
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4981 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4983 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4987 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4990 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4991 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4993 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4997 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5000 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5004 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * README: minor typo fix.
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5010 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5013 leave it at that. :-)
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5017 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5023 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5029 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5032 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5033 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5034 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5038 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5041 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5045 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5048 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5052 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5054 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5055 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5056 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5057 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5058 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5062 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5065 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5066 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5067 Craig Small for spotting this.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5071 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5074 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5075 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5079 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5085 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5088 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5092 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5094 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5095 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5096 working on the last version of debhelper.
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5100 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5103 being made. (#23255)
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5107 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5113 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5116 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5120 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5123 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5124 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5125 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5126 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5130 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5133 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5134 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5135 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5136 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5138 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5139 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5141 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5146 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5152 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5158 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5161 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5162 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5163 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5164 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5165 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5166 suidregister actually supports it.
5167 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5168 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5172 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5174 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5179 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5181 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5182 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5183 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5184 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5185 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5186 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5187 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5188 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5192 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5194 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5195 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5199 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5202 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5203 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5204 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5205 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5209 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5212 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5214 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5215 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5216 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5217 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5218 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5219 effect, either. (#30118)
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5223 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5229 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5232 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5233 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5237 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5243 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5246 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5247 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5248 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5249 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5253 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5256 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5257 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5261 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5263 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5267 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5270 packages, painlessly.
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5274 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5280 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5286 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5292 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * The perl conversion is complete.
5296 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5298 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5299 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5300 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5305 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5308 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5309 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5310 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5314 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5317 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5319 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5321 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5322 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5326 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5329 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5330 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5334 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5340 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5343 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5344 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5345 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5346 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5347 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5351 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5354 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5355 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5356 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5357 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5361 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5363 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5364 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5368 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5371 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5372 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5373 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5374 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5375 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5376 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5377 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5378 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5382 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5388 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5391 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5392 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5393 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5398 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5401 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5405 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5408 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5412 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5414 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5415 sections of shared libraries.
5416 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5417 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5418 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5419 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5420 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5421 things you don't want them to.
5422 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5423 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5427 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5430 shared libraries. (#26414)
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5434 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5436 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5437 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5438 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5439 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5443 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5447 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5449 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5450 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5451 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5452 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5453 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5457 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5460 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5464 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5467 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5468 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5473 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5476 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5480 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5483 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5484 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5485 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5486 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5487 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5489 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5490 remove debian/files properly.
5491 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5492 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5493 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5494 * Removed bogus menu file.
5496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5498 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5500 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5501 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5505 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5507 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5508 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5509 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5510 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5511 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5512 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5513 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5517 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5520 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5521 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5522 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5523 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5527 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5534 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5537 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5538 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5540 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5541 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5542 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5543 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5544 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5545 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5549 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5552 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5553 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5554 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5555 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5556 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5557 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5558 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5559 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5560 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5561 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5562 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5563 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5564 passed any switches.
5565 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5569 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5572 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5573 at all for a long while.
5574 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5575 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5576 large chunks in the process.
5577 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5578 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5579 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5584 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5587 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5589 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5594 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5597 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5598 that don't always have the same files in them.
5599 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5600 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5601 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5605 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5609 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5610 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5611 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5612 updating 27 man pages.
5613 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5614 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5615 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5616 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5617 programs act on. (#25247)
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5621 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5625 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5626 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5627 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5628 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5629 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5630 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5635 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5642 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5649 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5652 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5656 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5662 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5665 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5666 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5667 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5668 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5669 package by accident.
5670 * Is version 1.0 next?
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5674 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5677 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5678 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5682 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5684 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5685 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5686 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5687 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5688 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5689 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5691 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5696 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5699 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5700 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5704 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5706 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5707 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5711 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5714 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5715 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5720 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5722 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5726 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5729 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5730 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5735 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5737 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5741 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5744 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5745 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5746 past week. Thanks, guys!
5748 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5749 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5750 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5751 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5752 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5753 would do in the same situation.
5754 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5755 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5757 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5759 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5760 permissions changed.
5761 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5762 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5763 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5764 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5765 files are treated identically.
5766 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5767 * Minor man page fixes.
5768 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5769 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5770 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5774 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5777 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5778 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5779 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5780 use -X multiple times, too.
5781 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5782 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5786 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5789 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5790 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5794 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5797 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5801 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5803 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5804 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5805 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5806 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5807 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5808 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5809 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5810 shape if you're starting a new package.
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5814 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5817 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5821 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5823 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5824 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5825 because of missing symlinks.
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5829 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5835 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5838 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5839 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5840 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5841 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5842 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5844 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5845 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5849 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5851 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5852 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5853 to be changed after the fact :-)
5854 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5858 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5860 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5861 no version string after the -V.
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5865 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5867 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5868 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5873 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5875 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5876 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5880 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5882 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5883 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5884 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5885 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5886 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5887 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5888 I always welcome corrections!
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5892 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5898 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5900 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5901 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5902 * Documented this new switch.
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5906 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5909 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5910 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5911 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5912 no packages use the old behavior.
5914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5916 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5918 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5919 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5920 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5924 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5926 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5927 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5931 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5933 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5937 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5939 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5940 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5944 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5946 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5947 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5948 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5949 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5953 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5959 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5961 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5962 into the source package by accident.
5964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5966 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5968 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5969 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5970 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5971 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5972 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5973 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5974 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5979 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5983 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5984 inspired to implement some of it.
5985 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5989 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5992 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5996 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5999 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6000 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6004 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6007 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6008 have done.) (#17598)
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6012 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6018 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6020 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6024 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6027 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6031 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6033 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6034 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6035 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6039 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6042 argument processor in perl.
6043 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6044 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6045 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6046 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6050 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6053 type directories. (#16933)
6054 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6055 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6056 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6057 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6058 are supported. (#16935)
6059 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6064 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6066 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6067 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6071 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6073 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6075 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6076 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6077 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6078 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6079 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6080 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6084 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6086 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6087 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6088 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6090 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6091 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6092 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6093 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6094 a given package, or -i or -a.
6095 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6096 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6097 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6098 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6099 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6100 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6101 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6102 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6103 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6105 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6106 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6107 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6111 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6113 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6114 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6115 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6120 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6122 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6123 does not have a section.
6125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6127 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6129 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6130 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6131 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6132 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6136 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6138 * Fixed typo #16215.
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6142 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6145 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6146 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6147 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6148 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6149 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6154 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6156 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6157 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6158 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6159 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6164 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6166 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6170 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6172 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6176 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6178 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6179 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6180 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6181 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6182 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6183 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6184 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6188 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6190 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6194 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6196 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6197 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6201 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6203 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6204 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6205 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6206 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6210 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6212 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6213 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6217 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6223 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6225 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6226 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6230 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6232 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6233 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6237 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6239 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6243 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6245 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6246 postinst, postrm, etc.
6248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6250 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6252 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6256 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6258 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6259 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6260 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6261 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6262 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6263 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6267 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6269 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6270 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6271 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6275 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6277 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6278 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6282 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6284 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6285 installing package files into.
6286 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6291 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6293 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6295 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6299 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6301 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6305 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6307 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6308 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6312 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6314 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6315 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6316 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6317 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6318 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6322 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6324 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6325 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6326 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6327 multiple binary packages.
6328 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6329 should rebuild them with this version.
6330 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6334 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6336 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6337 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6341 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6343 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6344 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6348 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6351 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6352 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6353 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6354 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6355 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6356 debian/README.debian.
6357 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6358 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6359 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6360 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6361 in a few situations.)
6363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6365 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6367 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6371 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6373 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6377 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6379 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6380 * Fixed several man pages.
6382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6384 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6386 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6387 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6388 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6392 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6394 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6395 is ready for general use.
6396 * Added man pages for all commands.
6397 * Multiple binary package support.
6398 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6399 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6400 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6402 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6403 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6404 auto-installed as parameters.
6405 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6407 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6410 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6411 the package build directory it is to act on.
6412 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6413 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6414 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6418 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6420 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6421 ready to replace debstd.
6423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400